Example sentences of "[conj] i [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The brake and clutch are too close together for my modest size sevens , and there 's a huge foot-rest where I would normally expect a clutch pedal . |
| 2 | Or let my Lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely Tower Where I may oft outwatch the Bear . |
| 3 | Although it 's interesting to hear the difference between these amps with a signal source as stable as the A2 , there was n't one where I could n't produce the desired sound simply by tweaking the combo 's own EQ . |
| 4 | Where I could also spend a great deal of time talking about our common enemies , our mutual friends and some of the similarity and our aims for world peace and again , I 'm gon na leave that for the statesmen and the politicians . |
| 5 | He expects a place in a Labour cabinet : Chief Whip for a short time , perhaps , then a portfolio of his own ‘ something where I could really help the North . ’ |
| 6 | I 'll go to church more often , or I 'll read my bible more regularly , or I 'll really make an issue about praying , it 's not , it 's not that at all . |
| 7 | Now do co-operate for my sake — or I wo n't have a moment 's peace in Rome . |
| 8 | I have to have the full eight hours or I ca n't do a thing the next morning , not a single thing . |
| 9 | Have I got my glasses with me or I ca n't see the prices . |
| 10 | Hope I 've got my glasses with me or I ca n't see the prices . |
| 11 | Flying from London to Los Angeles I could make New York a genuine intermediate target by taking a stop-over or I could simply score the halfway mark on the total journey . |
| 12 | ‘ There 's nothing private , ’ answered Julia , ‘ although I would quite like the letter back when you 've shown it to her . ’ |
| 13 | I want to take seriously the suggestion that the sort of inquiry that Quine has in mind could be the heir to traditional epistemology — although I shall not restrict the concerns of the latter to studying the relation of evidence to theory . |
| 14 | Although I could n't tell the difference at the time , I was in fact wrong yesterday and right today , and this is sufficient to ground a difference in the outside observer 's description of me as knowing today but not knowing yesterday . |
| 15 | One final observation : It is possible , although I could n't reproduce the effect on the three models made , that a switch-mode power system may oscillate or be unstable on open or very light loads . |
| 16 | A magnified detail drew attention to the skin ; although I could not understand the symbols appended , it looked as if the idea was that the outer skin should have less sensibility , by the withdrawal of nerves and capilliary blood-vessels from the outer layers of the epidermis — in fact , that a sort of hide should develop over the flesh which would render its owner fairly immune to extremes of temperature . |
| 17 | The Bushman was following it , but suddenly he swerved aside and he went off in another direction and I followed him , although I could clearly see the buffalo hoofmarks leading off in the opposite way . |
| 18 | And although I could still hear the screams and although they were real and terrible I slept well and late . |
| 19 | Although I can not give a date , we intend to proceed just as soon as we can resolve the question of the contract . |
| 20 | Although I can not give the House any good news on that score tonight , I can say that we are considering the matter . |
| 21 | Work is now in progress , although I can not give an exact date for its completion . |
| 22 | Unless there were special factors involved and although I can not recall a situation where we 've paid for a person to go into that 's for members to discuss , not me , but we have certainly paid an enhanced rate where somebody wanted to go to live near their daughter who was in and we felt that was a legitimate reason for paying a higher rate and , and , and we did do so , so there are other types of flexibility . |
| 23 | Exactly the same applies to applying columns to the text , although I can not find a way of having mixed numbers of columns without using frames — much like every DTP package I 've come across , as it happens . |
| 24 | Although I can now see the inherent sense in glueing a book to a table , then the point was just beyond me . |
| 25 | I realized that I might actually have a sin . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's just that I ca n't stand the slur on my grandmother 's memory . |
| 27 | Then her face changed and she told me something so terrible , so strange , so annihilating that I ca n't remember a word she said . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's what I 've wanted to do for a long time , so long that I ca n't remember a time when the name Tony Radcliffe did n't send me into a violent rage ! ’ |
| 29 | Anyway I got so carried away that I ca n't remember the game in detail so this report is crap , all I can remember is the Elland Road wall of noise and the fury of the Leeds attack once Batty was on the pitch . |
| 30 | The thing about Martina is — the thing about Marina is that I ca n't find a voice to summon her with . |