Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pers pn] [modal v] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time it was worth five shillings , no mean sum for a Gorbals kid , but had this promise been honoured I would not have parted with the note . |
| 2 | And of course if you are nursing you ca n't afford to make mistakes , it may cost somebody 's life if you do . |
| 3 | It was pleasant but had I been blindfolded I would not have been able to tell the difference from its cheaper , non-organic counterpart . |
| 4 | Ward says when the forms are revised they will also include more questions about sexual abuse and the therapeutic work being undertaken . |
| 5 | And during that terrible evening by the fireside , when she told him her story , how desperately sad she had been to realize he might not love her any more . |
| 6 | If any discrepancy reports are received it will usually mean that insufficient time or resources have been allocated for the offline system to carry out its verification cycle successfully ( or those resources are not appropriate to the maximum latency time ) . |
| 7 | I feel that though I 'd been dawdling it would n't have been so bad . |
| 8 | If she had been listening she would n't have learned much from the brief courtesy call from CI5 HQ . |
| 9 | But in the light of what has been said we can also see that it was of especial significance in emancipating , not merely the hand from locomotion , but the brain from its reliance on chemical stimuli mediated by the sense of smell . |
| 10 | He says they should n't carry much money and if they are threatened they should never resist . |
| 11 | But once that 's been accepted you ca n't argue with the price and this jacket 's certain to keep you warm for a few years at least . |
| 12 | well yes I do tha you 've done this before , that this buffet thing , it 's quite nice , people can sort of like , if they 're staying they can just say y leave it out and you sa eat whenever you want to really in n it ? |
| 13 | Because if you 're running you wo n't have the time or energy to soak up more than the two pages of essential last-minute information starting on page 44 . |
| 14 | There is a human characteristic that we like to think , see things in , in very clear cut ways and you 're saying we should n't go overboard and just think that Boris Yeltsin because of his courage standing on the tank and , and helping to prevent the coup , we should n't go overboard and think that he 's er the most marvellous human liberal democrat who ever walked the earth . |
| 15 | But er , you know , as I say I know what you 're saying I wo n't say to him I want that done over eleven weeks , I 'll say this is what we 're gon na do week by week . |
| 16 | George is saying things to him and they 're saying you ca n't do this and they ca n't do that , well they can do what they want ca n't they ? |
| 17 | Now if we 're saying you can not ascertain this surplus , then why is the employer allowed to take money out ? |
| 18 | If they get a bit tetchy and and they 're crying a lot maybe cos they 're teething you could just massage a little bit on their temples . |
| 19 | But if you set it up jointly , you ca n't direct all the gross income if that 's what you 're thinking you ca n't say well I 'll have all that income gross cos my wife 's got an unused allowance , you 've got to split it down the middle in the case of a joint account . |
| 20 | Wickham suspected he looked dubious because she hurried on : ‘ Oh , I know you 're thinking I might not have noticed him at the bar . |
| 21 | yeah , that 's what I thought and , but if that was n't bad enough , my mum because she knows these things , even said that he does n't even say ho , ho , ho , Green Giant , does n't , they do n't even sing that song when they 're working they could n't sing , and you know the little corn on the cob man |
| 22 | Unless these deficiencies are corrected it will not matter how many ideas come out of academe . |
| 23 | Shopkeepers have been told they ca n't protect themselves against ramraiders and smash and grab attacks because they 're in a conservation area . |
| 24 | I think they 've been told they ca n't have the money . |
| 25 | The constables , two male and one female , all uniformed and stationed in Ipswich , have been told they will not face a criminal prosecution by the Crown Prosecution Service . |
| 26 | They 've been told they can only get they 're money back from the sale of assets , when the comnpany goes into receivership at the end of April . |
| 27 | It was just that they 'd been told they could n't do it . |
| 28 | He contacted the South Africans who had been told they could n't meet a council delegation independently and invited them to a meeting in Darlington town hall . |
| 29 | A disabled pensioner has been told she ca n't travel by train to visit relatives this Christmas — because her wheelchair 's too big . |
| 30 | PRINCESS DIANA has been told she can not see her sons until next Tuesday . |