Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [pron] [verb] [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you walk into Spanish shops they 're on size eight shoes I mean what would you mean what are you talking about . |
| 2 | think to myself well it 's six months I wish I 'd have done it in August , now . |
| 3 | within six months I know I 'll have no more money problems . |
| 4 | REAL LIFE After SIX miscarriages I knew I 'd get lucky WOMEN 'S LOOS The scandal no one talks about ! |
| 5 | ‘ After the first 18 months you know anything can happen . |
| 6 | If all this had to be summed up in one sentence I suppose it would have to be that Wittgenstein 's treatment of the ‘ Other Minds ’ problem is an extended illustration of a point in philosophical logic : namely , that the meaningfulness of some of the things we say is dependent on contingent facts of nature — such as that the Earth revolves on its axis , and that we moan with pain and react as we do to others who moan . |
| 7 | For all their mutual sympathy , for all the sense he had of their being irrevocably bound together , this was the one question he knew he would never ask . |
| 8 | It was at that time that I interviewed David 's mother , Margaret Jones , who recalled a three-year-old David discovering a bag of make-up in an upstairs room and plastering himself with it , and how at one point she thought he would become a ballet dancer . |
| 9 | One evening he said he 'd like me to fetch him the following morning , as he wanted to make some bread . |
| 10 | One minute they say you ca n't eat , and then they say that you can eat it ! |
| 11 | One minute you discovered you could do a falsetto , the next that there was a reason why a woman had given you a sweet . |
| 12 | One day something happened which might seem unimportant , but which had a great effect on Oliver 's future . |
| 13 | Marilyn Thompson was Charlie 's wife 's best friend ; Charlie was to be Jack 's best man and one day he thought he would be godfather to Jack 's first child . |
| 14 | One day I hope you 'll let me buy you a slap . |
| 15 | One day I hope you will be . ’ |
| 16 | One day I know I wo n't have room for everything but for the moment I wo n't bring myself to part with something I have found , ’ she said . |
| 17 | Then one day I thought I must . |
| 18 | I was doing the Mujahadeen side for Life and one day I thought it would be a great story to be in Kabul when it fell , to see it from the Mujahadeen side . |
| 19 | I never doubted what I was feeling , but I was shocked when it did n't fade over the years , and I went through phases of trying to convince myself that it was some sort of obsession , a perverse desire for the one woman I believed I could never have — or not in the way I wanted you , loving me as well as wanting me . ’ |
| 20 | Also now that we 've got UNISON the one union I think they can help but I do think that 's what needs to be done , because they 're doing the same with the hospital as , as now doing with the pits even after the closure campaign . |
| 21 | ‘ We happened to be at the mortuary … not that it will make any difference , but there is one thing we thought you would find interesting . ’ |
| 22 | And one thing we will learn from it I think , if we 're honest with ourselves , and we put , and try and save up and have a piece on the end there , but the one thing I think we will perhaps come to , and the one conclusion we may come to , is the fact that whilst we , we do live in this world and I absolutely agree that if somebody says , look I need to see a new as well , I need to see you now , or I need to see you tomorrow , that 'll be difficult , O K , and that 's the immediacy of the business . |
| 23 | But one thing I think I can do and do well is a guitar solo . |
| 24 | She had demanded commitment from Luke — the one thing she knew he would n't grant . |
| 25 | On the one hand she thought she would possibly enjoy a hour 's gardening when she came home from work and that it would help her unwind , but on the other hand her adult children and her husband would expect tea at 6 p.m . |
| 26 | One reason he thinks he can do it is the help he 's had over the past six weeks of intensive Lilleshall training from England 's newly-installed bowling coach , the former Surrey and Sussex star Geoff Arnold . |
| 27 | You ca n't say that it 's not helping bring people to the Sugar shows but after one show I hope they 'll forget about everything else . |
| 28 | If , in addition , I were accompanied by his fifteen soldiers I believed we should be too strong a party to invite attack , while not so strong as to alarm and provoke the tribes . |
| 29 | many times , at one time I thought it would never happen again , I thought this was it forever , but life is n't like that , things happen and it does change . |
| 30 | At one stage I thought he used to pick on me . |