Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [adv] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They 'll pick up anything inside . |
| 32 | The police talk to everybody in the hope that by hit and miss they might pick up something . |
| 33 | Maybe one day , she was thinking , her head and her hormones might agree over something ; and on that day the sun would rise and shine all morning , and fish would leap in the river , and all of her bills would turn out to be rebates . |
| 34 | You never know , you might find out something you 'd rather not know . ’ |
| 35 | It was once thought that tool users might have a more complex and sophisticated nervous system than other animals , and that by studying them we might find out something of significance about the human race itself . |
| 36 | I might turn up something the police have missed . ’ |
| 37 | Plodding around in the dark hoping you might stumble over something , and knowing all the time that half a dozen people could throw the light-switch if they wanted to . |
| 38 | I 'll find out something about him . |
| 39 | I 'm not saying you 'll find out anything , but you have to start somewhere . ’ |
| 40 | It 's very rare you you 'll find actually somebody who 's working who would who would buy these things off somebody unemployed because they 'd expect too much off them . |
| 41 | Good old Codies — if they ca n't rip off their own games , they 'll rip off someone else 's ! |
| 42 | ‘ Let's run over everything and see what we can put together . ’ |
| 43 | ‘ Well for one thing , does it sound likely to you that he 'd make up something so complicated ? ’ |
| 44 | The pain steadily increased in force , blotting out the fires on the hill above the melon beds , increasing the darkness until they could make out nothing in the compound below , and driving them back from the streaming verandah . |
| 45 | She could see nothing , could make out nothing , but it was a comfort , it was company , she heard its voices , they spoke to her . |
| 46 | She could make out nothing in the darkness at the beginning except a jumble of bric-a-brac and the outline of a colossal eagle crucified on one wall . |
| 47 | He could make out nothing in the darkness around the car . |
| 48 | For the first time that weekend the rain had stopped , and although it was still overcast we could make out something of the beauties of the landscape . |
| 49 | As far as anyone could make out none of the hostages whose lives had been threatened earlier in the year had actually been harmed , but the stream of communiqués from the groups had dried up . |
| 50 | Summer in the country , was the toast echoing in Diane 's ears as she went back inside ; and she shuddered , and wondered if she could think up something really cutting to say the first time one of them tried to treat her like a servant . |
| 51 | She 'd do almost anything to get away from here , especially with winter coming in . |
| 52 | He 's a gentle sweet old-fashioned thing who 'd do almost anything for me and I 'm devoted to him . |
| 53 | Fernando Serra could believe what he liked because nothing now could bring back anything remotely like what they 'd shared in Seville . |
| 54 | Unionist reactions to these proposals , published and embodied in the Representation of the People Bill early in 1917 , were very hostile indeed ; it seemed a reckless step to give the biggest ever increase in the franchise in the midst of a major war , to throw away some of the plural votes on which the party had relied , and to receive in return a redistribution that could bring almost anything . |
| 55 | Given a few more quid to spend , this lot could beat almost anything on Talkin' Loud . |
| 56 | When we look at Poe 's tales , the structure seems predictable , even formulaic : the dawning sense that all is not as it should be ; the attempts to explain away the moaning sounds that something inside him is nevertheless compelling him to hear ; the fight with fancy , as if one could will away one 's deepest fear ; and then the horrified recognition that what one was most afraid of is there , behind the antique panels , waiting to throw one to the floor . |
| 57 | I think , if we went on for another half an hour or forty five minutes , we could clear virtually everything . |
| 58 | The first choice of a single builder did not work out , but Timothy Easton has high praise for his replacement , Barry Rose , from Debenham : ‘ He was excellent and could do virtually anything . ’ |
| 59 | Those insights could not just be abandoned but no one could understand how something could be both a wave and a particle . |
| 60 | ‘ I never could understand how anyone could feel any enthusiasm for going ahead . |