Example sentences of "[noun prp] [subord] i [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | once I got to bed and me brain works I thought , oh dear , the family 's coming for lunch on Tuesday so I ca n't do it ! |
| 2 | Well I 'll be round Saturday so I can usually manage to get to her . |
| 3 | No go on Paulie cos I ca n't |
| 4 | and she said my sister spends I mean , we 're now talking about nineteen seventy my sister spends twelve and six a week on things from for the house on the hire purchase if she ever truly runs into debt she 'll save part of the cost of the thing , you know and then she knows that she 's always going to have to put twelve and six a week aside but she does that and buys things for the house and you see if you 've got if you 've got that little bit of extra coming in it 's quite well it 's like my lodgers , Brenda if I could n't if I could n't get what I need from my lodgers well Neil pays me Neil 's house rent which thirty pound a week |
| 5 | The England squad is announced next week and he said : ‘ There 's little chance of being involved with England if I ca n't get in my club side first . ’ |
| 6 | Madam Chairman if I may just make a comment of concern that information was not , on this point was not forthcoming to the county councillors of that area perhaps to make er give them an opportunity to make comment prior to you so you could make this delegated action . |
| 7 | For I knew there were English-speaking visitors in Geneva if I could only establish communication with them ; they might be induced to take up my cause . |
| 8 | I rang Prentice as I could n't think how to put it off any longer , and got him at the second number he 'd left . |
| 9 | Well I 'm hoping I 'm going to have a nice week but it Mavis , my housekeeper 's away until Wednesday so I ca n't leave the house during the day . |
| 10 | It 's the cheapest adventure story in the world , and it 'll tell you more about Koraloona than I can ever put into words . |
| 11 | You must be Samson Stacey cos I could n't do it ? |
| 12 | I ca n't for the love of me understand the leadership of all the unions that allowed , we do n't even get enough holidays of what they get on the continent , we should be asking for more , not taking them off us or putting it in October to celebrate Nelson and Trafalgar because I could n't give a monkey for 'em . |
| 13 | Flora , of course , was nothing like my poor little mother , nor was her situation comparable , but one can not help being affected by memories , however irrelevant they may be , and , thinking of that other middle-aged woman deserted by her young lover , made me sorrier for Flora than I might otherwise have been . |
| 14 | well I 'm not gon na ask Chris cos I 'll just write a cheque to Society . |
| 15 | Nolan was disconcerted by having lost on Groundsel though I could n't see that he 'd done anything wrong . |
| 16 | Final contr final contribution on Selby if I may please . |