Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [adv] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not often they come back from work she said they feel I ca n't , not yet , she said I could never my housework and that 's too much yeah she likes to do |
| 2 | I do n't really care if he was a homosexual — though I 'd rather his taste were for adults . |
| 3 | His mother Angela had risked legal action by blocking radiation treatment — saying she would rather her son died in peace at home than suffer in hospital . |
| 4 | they , er , they may well my Lord |
| 5 | ’ sometimes best to sell a player so they can further their career ’ |
| 6 | As Cobbett said afterwards , the people had wanted the Act " that it might do us some good ; that it might better our situation … and not for the gratification of any abstract or metaphysical whim . " |
| 7 | For soon enough their scholarly owner grew bored with his dragon studies — as well he might since his samples were such Poring dragons — and decided to investigate the secrets of the turbine jet engine instead . |
| 8 | He was invisible ; and at need he could better their speed . |
| 9 | Perhaps it was that , or frustration , or , more probable still , a queer kind of prudery — he would rather his mother thought him a brute than realize what we had been up to — that made him hit me . |
| 10 | ‘ At a time when Scotland 's supply of quality players is limited , McCoist can make this tie less of a banana skin than it looks , ’ said Roxburgh , who freely admits he would rather his team were playing Germany , Italy or the Netherlands . |