Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] [verb] [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brain became the King of avant-rock , making ‘ my mouth on the bun of ghosts ’ putting ‘ found ’ tapes over rich rhythms ( an almost totally unique idea except Can had already done it ) and is currently chief apologist for Bongo of U2 . |
| 2 | The four harbingers of East European apocalypse — the collapse of the Soviet Union as a trading partner , dear oil , government paralysis and civil disorder — visited last year and may have already done their worst . |
| 3 | They were both free then , and must have still felt something for each other . |
| 4 | Very foolish , as it merely postponed the inevitable and could serve only to irritate my guards . |
| 5 | Your Grace will therefore be so good as to allow me to ask you most humbly for my discharge … seeing that when I asked you for permission to travel to Vienna three years ago you graciously declared that I had nothing to hope for in Salzburg and would do better to seek my fortune elsewhere . |
| 6 | I enclose a copy of our letter of acknowledgement and thanks to C M Rope , Trustee , and would like also to convey our appreciation to you . |
| 7 | Those attending the seminar will be the guests of the Börsenverein , which will pay the costs of accommodation and all events , and will need only to meet their travel expenses to and from the seminar . |
| 8 | Informix says Storm means less work for MIS departments because users do n't have to understand the database schema and can do more work themselves with the tools . |
| 9 | Wolf spiders which live on the ground and can run fast chase their prey . |