Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [modal v] [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His voice was brusque as he said , ‘ If you girls will excuse me I 'll return to my job of preparing for this afternoon 's horse trek . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Well — if you 'll excuse me I 'll go to my room , where I have a good book . |
| 3 | If he sees me I 'll stick with him . |
| 4 | I said ‘ If you point at me I can point at you . ’ |
| 5 | Well I 'd already spoken to the man who was running the course , the lecturer and he told me I could go on it , but his secretary said it was booked . |
| 6 | He is very wealthy and everyone looks up to him but as for me I could understand from my limited Italian he is very sad because one of his ships is very late in arriving in port and is feared lost . |
| 7 | ‘ There 's nothing I would change about it , ’ he said . |
| 8 | I felt a lot of anger , but there was nothing I could do with it ; then it faded , until I started making some connections with feminism at the beginning of the seventies . |
| 9 | There was nothing I could do for it this time' ) , but ‘ Is She Really Going Out With Him ? ’ , formerly ditched , now finds itself reinstated , although apparently in a setting designed to tease out its reluctant humour once and for all . |
| 10 | Since there was nothing I could do about what was happening to my body , I decided — not altogether consciously — to ignore it and to interest myself in other , more spiritual matters . |
| 11 | I feel like that the situation in which Carrington was in is what God does and that I 'm part of that situation , and that he was going to die , and that there was nothing I could do about it . |
| 12 | There was nothing I could do about it . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ There was nothing I could do about it . |
| 14 | I rang my dealer who told me there was nothing I could do about it . |
| 15 | Dawn 's nervousness while she was attached to my hand lasted for quite a while and there was nothing I could do about it other than reassure her . |
| 16 | I could see he was going to be unhappy about it for a long time , and that there was nothing I could do about it . |
| 17 | ‘ Nothing I could do about it , Jezrael . |
| 18 | However , there was nothing I could do about it , and I simply had to accept the situation . |
| 19 | There was nothing I could do about it . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ That living is not in Switham 's gift , you see , so there was nothing I could do about it . ’ |
| 21 | ( There was nothing I could do about my khaki shorts except tighten the wizened Dan Dare belt that Brynley had passed on . ) |
| 22 | And when in 1973 the Lord Chief Justice was asked to ‘ give some guidance upon the phrase ‘ cohabiting as man and wife ’ he swiftly handed back the poisoned cup , saying that the phrase was ‘ so well known that nothing I could say about it could possibly assist in its interpretation hereafter ’ . |
| 23 | My ears are burning in the cold , but there 's nothing I can do about it . |
| 24 | She said : ‘ It 's a dreadful thought , but there 's nothing I can do about it . |
| 25 | And the worse thing is that now there 's nothing I can do about it . |
| 26 | Self-preservation , replies Kate the British Committee librarian feebly , I ca n't afford a breakdown , this is me for the moment , there 's nothing I can do about it . |
| 27 | Being only 5′ 2½″ tall myself I too feel very strongly about the unfairness of this , but there is absolutely nothing I can do about it except to warn you that in these circumstances you do need to be very accurate in counting calories in order to achieve a good rate of weight loss . |
| 28 | But if somebody decides differently , there 's nothing I can do about it . |
| 29 | There 's nothing I can do about it . ’ |
| 30 | " If because of this the kingdom of God is closed to me , there is nothing I can do about it , for I ca n't return these things . |