Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Afterwards Jared Tunstall had said to her mama , ‘ It was a question of a little hustler meeting a big one , and if it were n't that he has hurt Sally-Anne so badly I could almost admire the swine for his gall . |
| 2 | Luckily I could still ride the bike . |
| 3 | ‘ Naturally I ca n't phone the police . ’ |
| 4 | I know then there is no one but me — only I can possibly stop the fountain of blood and minced flesh which my sister will become in those flashing , fluttering blades . |
| 5 | Perhaps I might just take the chance to say that if there is a local group that would like to hospitality to people from developing countries that are at the Institute , we always welcome that sort of opportunity and invitation . |
| 6 | Well , perhaps I wo n't light the fire until half past eleven or something to try and make it go that bit further . |
| 7 | The only complaint — and she was not really complaining against her uncle , perhaps I should rather say the cause for depression — was that from time to time she was very homesick and longed to see her mother and girls of her own age . ’ |
| 8 | Perhaps I should always take the case for his solution as being 20% stronger than it would otherwise appear to me to be . |
| 9 | The erm safety on the transport yes I mean I am very happy to say that we will ask the , the staff to look at that and perhaps I can just clarify the meaning of that paragraph ah in four point eight when it says a m a new member of staff it means a new member of staff will be responsible for health and safety not just one person on his own . |
| 10 | On the question of the period between now and the general election , obviously I can not predict the exact course that events will follow . |
| 11 | when I 'm going so I 'll just allow the same . |
| 12 | And I 'll now ask them , everybody else is present , so I 'll now ask the Clerk to read the minutes of the previous meeting please . |
| 13 | And like , so I ca n't close the door . |
| 14 | Er and this is exactly what we are doing , so I ca n't see the policy er of policing of changing at all . |
| 15 | So I ca n't criticize the decision of the court on that or or the way the solicitors dealt with it . |
| 16 | erm , so I could n't carry the wallpaper so the lass says well you ca n't carry it , she says I 'll phone you a taxi , I says okay , so she phoned this , she says any , any particular one , I says I 'll have that one beside us like so phoned association , they 'll be erm , you , you know call up and they came and er pick me up and brought us back with the paper , he charged one pound twenty and I 'm saying to myself one pound twenty , that 's a damn disgrace , by hell I 'll not get that taxi again |
| 17 | and there was this very charming medical student so I could n't tell the golfing joke because I |
| 18 | So I could n't get the swing of it then do you see , for about two or three years . |
| 19 | I stood on the round wall and wound the handle as fast as I could , but when the bucket was still just out of reach , the rope kept slipping so I could not reach the bucket . |
| 20 | She gave birth to it , only she could n't keep the kid by her because of what Dynmouth people would say about it . |
| 21 | Now there 's another thing questions what I 'm saying is that 's something to take away with you , or perhaps you wo n't get the chance er try now er . |
| 22 | ‘ Or perhaps you 'd rather finish the book and then come ? ’ |
| 23 | If you can understand what they 're seeking , what their job 's all about , then perhaps you can actually put the two things together . |
| 24 | I 'm sure they are in a mess and perhaps you will not find the right thing , after all . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ But obviously you ca n't have the confidence unless you keep winning , and I have n't been winning since April when I started struggling with injury . ’ |
| 26 | I mean obviously you wo n't hear the rabbit but I do n't think I 'm gon na stay in anyway . |
| 27 | Serve only with an interesting bread ( if it 's interesting enough you wo n't miss the butter ! ) , such as pitta , black bread , rye , pumpernickel , or whole wheat roll . |
| 28 | so you felt that and that pulse point there if you press on it hard enough you can actually stop the one in the wrist and of course that is controlling the flow of blood to the rest of the arm and you leave a pressure point closed off like that for no more than ten minutes , because if you left it on for too long that it means not sufficient blood 's getting to the rest of the , the limbs and the limb must have its blood supply , so you leave the pressure on for ten minutes and then release it , say for ten seconds just so say that the hand comes back pinkish again and if it 's not slowing down , back on with the pressure again for another ten minutes and that 's how you use it , tap off , ten minutes at the most , tap on for a little while , if it 's leaked again reapply , ten minutes at the most , tap on again , okay and that 's how you 'll control it , so if you do have a sit a situation where the bleeding was bad cos you 've got a , a limb severed , you could n't perhaps put sufficient direct pressure over that limb , this done , right , to control the bleeding then you could use indirect pressure , here , breaking or here , right in the , no playing now please , no trying to find this one right now , do this one tonight , in bed and the old lady said now what are you doing to me , never you mind , go to sleep |
| 29 | This does not mean that you should promptly forget the whole idea of noting items which come into this category ; but that , as this is such a very personal decision area , only you can really make the assessments . |
| 30 | She ought to be playing ten chukkas a day with really good players , and she ought to get miles away from you so she ca n't kick the shit out of you . ’ |