Example sentences of "[adv] [modal v] [adv] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doing so might well have saved them . ’ |
| 2 | The eyes alone could never have given me so profound a sense of Spring , of Maytime and the blossoming of hawthorn upon the heaths and wild cherry at the border of the beech copses . |
| 3 | perhaps waiting for all the kids to school first perhaps ca n't see to do it in the dark |
| 4 | She immediately discounted that idea , realising that , had Lubor known , then he obviously would n't have asked her to dine himself . |
| 5 | Erm a park tends to give the impression of being like a memorial park , erm equally it 's not just earmarked for football , which is it could be er seen as just that , the idea was that it would provide facilities for all types of sports and interests throughout the er throughout the area , particularly er girls , I know girls play football but there 's a lot of interest in er sport particularly hockey , and I personally would n't like to see it just dominated by football . |
| 6 | Your brother perhaps will not mind fetching them from the Commissariat . |
| 7 | For a long time I just could not face wearing them at home . |
| 8 | ‘ I just could n't bear to leave it go , ’ she said . |
| 9 | Barman John Meakin said : ‘ We just could n't face chucking him on the bonfire . |
| 10 | We 'd been planning to completely redecorate our home from top to bottom , and at first I just could n't face doing it alone . |
| 11 | I love him like nothing else in my life , but Paula and I had been together when we were all planning Project Eden , before I even met Sam , and I loved her too , and somehow I just could n't stop seeing her … . ’ |
| 12 | I asked , knowing that his type just could n't wait to get you involved . |
| 13 | That was the trouble , they just could n't afford to provide them . |
| 14 | She says she just could n't have made it through those times without the support of her actor boyfriend , Robert Lugan . |
| 15 | It just would n't have happened I mean |
| 16 | Maybe they just ca n't bear to contemplate it , or perhaps they 'll just be forced to wait . |
| 17 | I just ca n't bear to tell him . |
| 18 | I just ca n't stop loving you . |
| 19 | I just ca n't s-seem to help it , ’ she wept , unable to staunch the heavy flow of tears streaming down her pale cheeks . |
| 20 | He just ca n't seem to take it in about his daddy . ’ |
| 21 | Paula Wilson , regional publicity officer for the RSPCA , said : ‘ We 've never known a time like it in years , people are ringing us every day asking to take animals off their hands , they just ca n't afford to keep them . ’ |
| 22 | Close your eyes and you just ca n't help imagining him in Dirty Dancing . |
| 23 | This is , you know you just ca n't begin to believe it can you ? |
| 24 | ‘ I just ca n't imagine telling them at home . |
| 25 | you just can not seem to get it out of your |
| 26 | Racism poisons a lot of children 's minds — they grow up in an environment with all these images around them , in comics , newspapers , TV , films , plus everything they hear from the family or friends — they just can not help taking it in . |
| 27 | But I still could n't bear to see him sneaking off with someone else . |
| 28 | She looked at the snapshot of him in Gloria 's handbag , but still could n't seem to see him properly . |
| 29 | It was gratifying to have people shake her hand who once would n't have given her the time of day , and when she walked through the dreary rooms where evidence of the late Adelaide Morey still abounded she had trouble convincing herself that she was now the mistress here . |
| 30 | If he does this easily enough we probably would not bother to call it a " problem " , but in a sense it is . |