Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [conj] i [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Eight fifty on the right and I 'll sell at eight hundred and fifty pounds . |
| 2 | I certainly do n't prefer the figurative though I may have lent this way at one time . |
| 3 | ‘ Wait here in the dry and I 'll go and bring the car round . ’ |
| 4 | In 1773 when raw silk was difficult to obtain , the owner of a throwing mill in Sherborne wrote : … having discharged many of my hands which are either starving , or are become burdensome to the town , others are incessantly crying for a little work and could they obtain but a morsel of Barley-bread they are happy , they very often go days with little or no nourishment … the continued cries of the poor people complaining for want of the necessaries of life as well for want of employment is shocking indeed … and what is worse the overseers are not so bountiful to the necessitous as I could wish . |
| 5 | One of the longest that I can think of spans a lake . |
| 6 | They 're also , Mr Mayor , interestingly coming out in favour of the individual but I must admit I applaud that and at long last in some , admittedly very modest way , er they are moving , I wo n't say to fiscal responsibility , but at least they 're learning the lessons of the recklessness of the past of their policies . |
| 7 | After the show , he said he would make me one and so I said that I would really like a sort of Gibson 355 , like BB was using in the mid-'60s and I would like my name on it and all sort of things . |
| 8 | ‘ In only the broadest and I may say sloppiest usage of the term would this obsessive little undeadnik be counted as a dybbuk . |
| 9 | I was worried about the latter but I can assure you here that there is little cause for concern . |
| 10 | Therefore my skills have not been utilized to the full and I may have fallen behind my UK counterparts . |
| 11 | If you persist in interrupting me , it is unlikely in the extreme that I will have sufficient time to give you the complete picture which you say you are so anxious to get ! |
| 12 | This summer , I concluded that the latter was better than the former and I can give my hon. Friend no assurance that I would not reach the same conclusion again . |
| 13 | At the same time , I would warn Obair * , the same as I would warn anybody setting up a scheme , to make sure that the scheme is properly run , to make sure that the scheme is n't used to take jobs away from either the domestics , the home helps or any other jobs in the health service — make sure that abuse is taken away and I certainly wish them luck in the future and I thank you for inviting me here to speak . |
| 14 | ‘ Hartlepool is always the same and I 'd have no objection at all to doing that . |
| 15 | It was all the harder because I could have given up at any moment . |
| 16 | ‘ Give me a lamp in this hand and the basket in the other and I shall manage perfectly well . ’ |
| 17 | I do n't know but he would n't , he would n't have it cooked aboard there , my mother used to cook it for him and I 'd stagger down in an ordinary shopping basket , in two basins there 'd be vegetables in one and his pudding and gravy in the other and I used to take that down for him and he used to come ashore and he used to then go and have it . |
| 18 | The musicians on one side and the great love of his life on the other and I could see his conflict , but it was my nightmare . |
| 19 | I was disappointed to find that accommodation was scarcer and more expensive than I thought it would be and the best that I could afford was a large first-floor room in a bedsitter house on Ladbroke Grove . |
| 20 | It seems to me perhaps , under the circumstances , the furthe the best that I can do is to set off er up a er cutoff date for objectors of the end of this coming Monday . |
| 21 | Now , I want the best for you , the best that I can give you , because in a way you belong to me now , and Ben there . ’ |
| 22 | The best that I can say for a personality explanation is that it prevents executives from thinking about changing their behaviour , because it understandably makes little sense for them to undergo some kind of therapy . |
| 23 | The best that I can say is that we shall receive the answer to the question that the House of Lords has asked in forthcoming months — I hope that the number involved will be few , not great . |
| 24 | I 'm showing it at the Norwich Contemporary Arts Exhibition on October the third if I can get it there . |
| 25 | I do n't know whether she had any more , she said she hoped it was the last and I should think she did , thirteen children to look after . |
| 26 | Fortunately it is only to a few that I need refer . |
| 27 | And so that , it made me a tougher than I should have been . |
| 28 | ‘ If it 's Harry , ’ George called , ‘ and he 's got any good news , just throw a fit and I 'll get the general idea . ’ |
| 29 | I have no more pain , almost no bleeding and I can enjoy life normally again . |
| 30 | Well , I know in the interview you did with Patsy Kensit she gave herself a 4 so I 'll have to go for 2 . |