Example sentences of "[adv] and [verb] [pron] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The area would be promoted for leisure and increased awareness would mean people coming in and thinking they can trample all over the place . |
| 2 | ‘ But nobody plays badly on purpose and with a very hard spell coming up , we just have to dig in and hope we can turn things round . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I looked down and thought he 'd let me fall too . ’ |
| 4 | But , as the wheel hurtled down and round he could see Tony , safe in his little illuminated booth . |
| 5 | Who comes along and says he 'll pay for everything to be put to rights ? |
| 6 | But what we 're proposing here essentially , is to say we 've got a seventy thousand pound contingency not specifically allocated , we will reduce that down to thirty thousand , but within that thirty thousand we will have to deal with requests we get to increase grants to people who 're already in receipt of grant support , and also we 've also found it extremely helpful to have a small reserve so that when a body comes along and says I would do this for you , but I do need a small grant in order to do it , and you 're effectively buying a hundred thousand pounds worth of service for ten thousand pounds , that you have actually got a ten thousand pounds to put it in , rather than funding everyone , so that 's basically the policy behind it Chair . |
| 7 | With that she got up , put her knitting away and said she would go with me as far as our house . |
| 8 | You ca n't just go away and hope everything will fall into place . |
| 9 | In reality it 's all too easy to carry on and hope it will go away . |
| 10 | She heard the man in the mask sliding down slowly and knew she should try and make a run for it but her ankle was already swelling inside her Reebok . |
| 11 | IRISH premier Albert Reynolds looks certain to fall today , after three members of his frail coalition government resigned yesterday and affirmed they would oppose a vote of confidence . |
| 12 | So you got my note crying off and thought you 'd come and try to change my mind ? ’ |
| 13 | The purpose of of these four orders , which I must say I greatly welcome , it is one of the , the most beneficial things to come out of the B C C I er disaster er and er i if I can say in in effectively in answer to everything the honourable gentleman for Great Grimsby said and he and I have debated on many occasions , if fact usually on the television not on the floor of the house , but er an an an an because of it for not quite so long either , er but erm th the point I would make to his is that really what he was saying was th that what went wrong with B C C I is that Price Waterhouse knew there was fraud and did n't say so and that wha what Lord Justice Bingham pointed out was that there is a clear conflict of interest between the interest of the client who they work for and the public interest and that what needed , what was needed was some amendment to the banking act to clarify that and that is precisely what er this order actually does and you ca n't really er Madam Deputy Speaker , expect anyone to really seriously criticise the government when in actual fact not only have they come up with the regulation to deal with that but they 've also gone further and said we will apply this to financial services and to building societies and to insurance companies as well , just to be absolutely sure . |
| 14 | D'Aubigny rose , greeted us civilly and indicated we should sit with him . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , as already described , Croydon Corporation saw things rather differently and thought they would stand to lose financially . |
| 16 | My mother and father were there and the doctor came up and said I would have to go into the Royal Marsden in Sutton to have a scan to find out whether the cancer had spread . |
| 17 | Well , the night after Sandy won his Open he was in the marquee , which was holding his celebration dinner , with his apron on , cleaning up and wishing everybody would go so he could get some peace and quiet . |
| 18 | The night after Sandy won he was in the marquee that was holding his celebration dinner , with his apron on cleaning up and wishing everybody would go so he could get some peace and quiet . |
| 19 | So with a little adding up and subtracting you will see that there were five children in the family and I came in the middle , being the third child . |
| 20 | I just would n't , if she rang up and says I 'd say no thanks . |
| 21 | Up and down the country people ring me up and say they 'd like to modify their glider . |
| 22 | Well if we 're not I 'll ring him up and say I 'll say er |
| 23 | I would prefer not to have my guy stand up and say I may have been involved in an assassination . ’ |
| 24 | Once up and running it will operate a drop-in facility with a kitchen and dining room , open to the public for lunches , or just a cup of coffee and a chat . |
| 25 | More or less yes , just a few adjustments and it could be up and running I would think . |
| 26 | Time ( and his bank balance ) will tell , but at least now the whole thing 's up and running he can retreat out of the public eye . |
| 27 | ‘ Once he 's up and walking he 'll stay that way , ’ said Mrs Sanderson . |
| 28 | Properly set up and organised it can tell you a great deal about your business and in particular your customers . |
| 29 | Sees us clearly and reckons he 'll come to a stop more or less alongside . |
| 30 | His sentence was terminated when Sahara officials bailed him out and said they would pick up the tab for the room but he would have to pay for his food and drink himself . |