Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] [adj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's a thief , a criminal , he nicked my bag and I had to sift through every shit-bin in Bristol till I found my dreams and found out what I ought to 've known all along if you had n't … |
| 2 | They should have known all along that she was lying but everyone was in a hurry to get away from her embarrassing tears and her insistence on their testifying to this and that . |
| 3 | He must have known all along that she would run into this set-back . |
| 4 | Y you must have had many more than forty five |
| 5 | The depreciation of sterling should help to bring this about and , although there might in time be scope for some further slight fall in interest rates , it is doubtful if there is much more that the Chancellor can do . |
| 6 | The depreciation of sterling should help to bring this about and , although there might in time be scope for some further slight fall in interest rates , it is doubtful if there is much more that the Chancellor can do . |
| 7 | I thought you might like to take that over if it 's convenient . |
| 8 | Anyway I 'll try to sort this out and let everyone know . |
| 9 | They might have become becalmed there as their heads ballooned with the drink but the Duke told his piper to rouse their feet with a steady march , ‘ Murdo Mackenzie of Torridon ’ , and they headed off downstream towards Grandtully past the standing stone , the quiet watcher , while damp black shadow massed in the river-channel as though the night came from there . |
| 10 | Perhaps if it had not been for the Shakoor Rana affair the TCCB might have handled this quietly and sensibly by issuing a non-committal statement and letting the fuss die down . |
| 11 | It crossed Rain 's mind that Eliot might have planned all along that Harbury should help but that Shildon had proposed her instead . |
| 12 | Erm I 'll attempt to do that tonight but I do n't hold out much hope so do n't hold your breath . |
| 13 | Whereas you could choose to take this away if you want . |
| 14 | I 'd like to watch that today or something . |
| 15 | It 's where to pay to money , and you 're having to go to the bank manager , what would he ask for ? the business plan , and you 'd have to draw that up and do all the and you have to impress the bank manager before he will even consider an overdraft facility , or whatever , a loan . |
| 16 | If you 'd put aside that — that conceited arrogance of yours , you 'd have figured that out and taken public transportation . |
| 17 | no you 'd have to get all out and have a look , but I mean if I go over there I 'll bring back a load of D K and I know I will we 'll see . |
| 18 | We would need to do this anyway because one ought to have one 's ideas in some kind of order , even if the rough convergence that we have did not leave plenty of clashes remaining which , of course , it does . |
| 19 | A few months before , when she was much younger , she would have screeched this aloud and brought the breakfast table to an uproar , but now she smiled while the coldness took careful and eternal appreciation of the fact that he had been flattered to be asked . |
| 20 | It was , I think , unlikely that the white Rhodesians — who had already shown some signs of division in their opinion — would have remained undivided indefinitely and a breakaway group might well have sought the allegiance of the black population , enabling them to play a large and even decisive role in government . |
| 21 | L/Cpl Edwards had been shot through the cheek and would have become unconscious immediately and died shortly afterwards , said consultant pathologist Dr Roger Williams . |
| 22 | Sitting at table with these guests I would have felt uncomfortable even if I had n't robbed my sister . |
| 23 | With any other man Dalgliesh would have pointed this out and with some asperity . |
| 24 | Well we shall have to get some then if , when it 's propitious . |
| 25 | You will need to follow these carefully as this is an important stage of the diet . |
| 26 | In that case we will attempt to do this now and we 'll talk about interval naming afterwards those of you who can please attempt it there will be questions here that some of us ca n't . |
| 27 | We will continue to do this so that we can trade as efficiently as possible on our resorts in Spain and the Canary Islands . |
| 28 | Our committee , dominated by batsmen and wicketkeepers unfortunately , think that the sightscreens are a Good Thing , but there are also those of us whose playing career is prolonged only by the knowledge that with village pitches the state they are , even a bad player can hope to strike lucky now and again . |
| 29 | A teaching profession with a better understanding and a wider knowledge of educational research would be more able to question those who indulge in ‘ jargon ’ and also have a solid base from which to put forward their views which , whether rightly or wrongly , still rely too heavily on intuitive feel for what is happening , and I feel confident that the STRN can help bring this about if Scottish teachers give it the support it deserves . |