Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [noun prp] [vb mod] [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course Harry would not want to be burdened with her , even if he could afford to start up his stud at Maythorpe House . |
| 2 | Of course Jed should not have tried to come between us ; it was a counter-revolutionary act on his part , Trotskyite even , when you think about it , but in that act was Praxis , the moment when theory becomes practice , and you should not have interfered . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Well , of course Charles might not have known that Mrs Thrigg was actually in the house during the quarrel . |
| 4 | Of course Tolkien could not accept the basic postulate that elves were angels ; like the story of the fairy and the Bible-reader , that is the product of a strict Christianity with very little space for outsiders . |
| 5 | Though of course Caliban ca n't get anything but his own miserable pleasure . |
| 6 | I goes of course Derek would n't have it any other way . |
| 7 | The little gold key unlocked this door easily , but of course Alice could not get through it — she was much too big . |
| 8 | Hue And Cry is the kind of act Reynolds ca n't abide , but the Pat Kane interview is , in a way , the most important chapter . |
| 9 | He told Wordsworth how he would lie on the leads , or flat roof , of Christ 's Hospital , and gaze into the sky because that was the only face of nature London could not obscure , or how he would close his eyes and ‘ by internal light ’ see before him the trees and meadows of Ottery and the river itself . |
| 10 | TEENAGERS in South Cleveland may not know enough about safe sex and are reluctant to use contraceptives , including condoms , says a new report . |
| 11 | People could n't see the danger we were in — in fact Lee could n't see it either — because it just looked as though his ball was in a sand hole . |
| 12 | He thus appeared to assume that Beattie and those among his witnesses who were from south-east Antrim would not recognise him . |
| 13 | But the house still needs a lot of work , and at present Ernest can not afford it . ’ |