Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [prep] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | All of us should know by now of the decision taken at the special church meeting on 13th May to go ahead with the purchase of the Camphill building . |
| 2 | But we should distinguish at least between the meaning of an utterance and what the utterer meant by it . |
| 3 | It was in his interests that his father should live at least until the seven years were up . ’ |
| 4 | cos I might look through there for a job you see . |
| 5 | I suppose your standard Manhattan faggot might look in here for a final white wine en route to a dungeon appointment or death-pact rendezvous at the Water Closet or the Mother Load . |
| 6 | Yeah , I wonder what cartoons they 'll have on tomorrow for the kid 's holiday ah ? |
| 7 | So it 'll come from there across the ceiling |
| 8 | She found that by giving a little leap she could stride across almost like a grown-up . |
| 9 | She says as how you 'd ring from here for the ambulance . ’ |
| 10 | No telling us where I do n't know this one come but being a foreign driver I mean he he could have from anywhere in the country and he could have been on the road a long time . |
| 11 | We can , we can put it all under one roof , and the d the design came out er good erm so that you could walk from the end of the , the machine shop was extended and you could walk from there into the catapult shop directly , or straight into the er fitting base , and thence down onto the welding sections . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , ‘ sweat is of such a nature that it would not appear upon the skin unless pores existed through which it could pass from inside to the outside ’ . |
| 13 | You 'd recognize this if you are a driver and especially a driver who maybe has the opportunity of travelling long distance , now years ago when I was younger and perhaps some of you in the audience when you were younger , you could go from here to the South of England with no trouble , without a break and you 'd head on down the motorway and you , you 'd be alert and alive and er ready to meet up with all sorts of emergencies and you 'd drive quite well all the way down , non stop down the South of England , but if you 're like me now , when I get to Stafford on the motorway you 're beginning to feel as if you 've had enough and it 's difficult to try and keep your concentration as you used to years ago , and that 's how it can be in the truth sometimes , when we 've been with it a long time that , we grow older not only physically , but spiritually too we become very experienced in the truth and we become very sort of fat spiritually , we can live off of that fat ca n't we ? |
| 14 | That was a really exciting moment , I felt as though I 'd come from nowhere to a big event . |
| 15 | There are other areas , particularly to I 'd accept to either to the south or to the north east where a new settlement could more easily be integrated into the existing landscape framework . |
| 16 | Buyers used to come from all over the world until the export ban . |
| 17 | All the different schools had er cos then we had , used to compete against er all sports and we used to get an afternoon football we used to march from up to the and erm play football but we did n't go up there until at half-time at erm play-time so they went to school at two o'clock and at half past three then that 'd be our break , then we 'd go up to erm football till five o'clock . |
| 18 | If personality were irreversibly fixed by particular child-rearing practices the individual would remain for ever at the mercy of specific experiences in his past . |
| 19 | Edward III agreed that the realm of Scotland ‘ shall remain for ever to the eminent prince Lord Robert , by the grace of God the illustrious king of Scots ’ , and he renounced any right he might have in the realm of Scotland . |
| 20 | Do you realize how quickly your clothes would dry in there in the hot press ? |
| 21 | We can but suppose that he practised the middle-class virtues of Samuel Smiles — those of hard work , thrift and sobriety — and embodied the very quintessence of what we would speak of today as the Protestant Work Ethic . |
| 22 | But he liked gripped me on the arm and then his hand would appear from nowhere during the concert , he like kind of rubbed my arm and are you alright ? |
| 23 | In this Chapter I shall begin by briefly considering the ( rather wide ) range of interference theories that have been applied to latent inhibition . |
| 24 | There was little hope that it would weigh for much in the balance of political life until then . |
| 25 | And er they would proceed from there to the |
| 26 | ‘ And then I went to Los Angeles , and I spent Thanksgiving on Malibu Beach , and there was a picture window — he stared around him at the shoebox room and rejected it — ‘ let's not exaggerate , but it would stretch from here to the lift . |
| 27 | Well-intentioned though their desire was to make available to everyone the best information concerning hygiene , health care , child care , etc. , and although they always placed such recommendations in the context of ensuring that everyone , through improved wages and benefits , would live at least at a ‘ national minimum of civilized life ’ , the ‘ official interference ’ implied by their proposals was disliked as much by working people who would experience it , as by the Liberal bourgeoisie who were hostile to the principle . |
| 28 | He would live for ever with the torchlight glimpse of a wide-eyed corpse dribbling blood from a broken neck and see Miss Tuckey 's eyes above the gag that smelled of vomit and was stained with more blood from he had to realise a deliberately bitten tongue … |
| 29 | Wally 's friends would come in here by the scores , at any odd hour of the day or night . |
| 30 | The annual subscription would increase from overseas to the full membership rate . |