Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [modal v] [adv] [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that in your mind you should not be second to anyone . |
| 2 | What a pity we ca n't be friends . ’ |
| 3 | I think once more , but now for the last time , I 'm going to turn back again to the preface to The Reason of Church Government and whoops and read you one more sentence erm in which he is apologizing once more for having entered the fray , the political fray ‘ But although a poet , soaring in the high region of his fancies , with his garland and singing robes about him , might without apology speak more of himself than I mean to do , yet for me , sitting here below in the cool element of prose , a mortal thing among many readers of no imperial conceit , to venture and divulge unusual things of myself , I shall petition to the gentler sort it may not be envy to me . ’ |
| 4 | By the time we get to your place it 'll almost be Kirsty 's bedtime . |
| 5 | All the rule books seem to say you must wear some sort of jacket — the BSJA naturally stipulate the colours — and in some classes it should even be tweed . |
| 6 | That one day I 'll just be history , like the rest … |
| 7 | It is time that players realised that if their club had not given them their chance they would not be internationals . |
| 8 | Also , she wondered if the taxi firms kept any kind of record of their more regular late-night destinations ; if she had to rely on drivers ' memories then there would n't be much hope , since on the evidence of the previous night they 'd mostly be part-timers with a high turnover . |
| 9 | I do n't know why some of them get like that , well of course they should n't be doctors any how . |
| 10 | Of course we are ; if we were n't rude Americans we 'd still be colonists , so tough shit ! |
| 11 | Brightly coloured coats , shirts and trousers should be tailored to a tight fit ; an elaborately decorated scarf should encircle his waist and hold a dagger : ‘ With a monthly salary of one hundred rupees let him allot ten rupees for the belt and the embroidered badge if he spends fifty rupees on a fur it will not be prodigality . ’ |
| 12 | Easter food has a lightness and freshness after the richness of Christmas ; and of course it would n't be Easter without eggs . |
| 13 | I believe it is very important to judge a new settlement in terms of viability and sustainability on the availability of some significant element of jobs , of course it will never be self contained , erm but that is a very important factor , I do n't see that in the list of criteria . |
| 14 | But if , if do if you do n't get it through this afternoon it wo n't be Sunday will it ? |
| 15 | He can change his ministers ; but unless he is a transcendent genius he can never be master of the conduct of affairs . ’ |
| 16 | but if I could live anywhere in the world it would definitely be London. ! ’ |
| 17 | Well I think as an early potato Stefan , I would chose from Rocket for the earliest , I would grow I think for as well as that I would go for Foremost but if you want a real waxy potato it would still be Arran Pilot cos now whenever you eat it it got a strong taste , whether it 's young or whether it 's old . |
| 18 | Next time it wo n't be Monday when we go . |