Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [pron] [verb] [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have a Roland U220 which would give me the sounds I want although I know it would not give me the great note-sequence loops which McLaughlin uses so beautifully . |
| 2 | I do n't know cos we thought you 'd be the only one who actually managed to get a copy when nobody else could lay their fice for the af from two o'clock in the afternoon yeah F finalised |
| 3 | The driver gunned the motor but that only threw off sprays of fine snow , and the motor howled until I thought it would burst . |
| 4 | ‘ Spends hours , usually late at night , gasping and wheezing until it seems he 'll collapse … |
| 5 | I say if you want we 'll phone Leslie |
| 6 | Some say if it rained you could fish in a footprint , |
| 7 | One local resident commented at the time , ‘ Possibly this area may have been picked because they think they might meet least resistance from a depopulated area ’ . |
| 8 | Include also those items which you wanted to have in the past but dismissed because you thought you could not have them or simply forgot about them . |
| 9 | She does n't know , I do n't suppose she 'll know till she got there will she ? |
| 10 | ‘ But knowing the little person he is , he 'll want to do something about the problem he has because he knows it will help other children , too . |
| 11 | I mean I do n't know whether she thought she could put them in the garden when she got to the new place and they 'd grow but |
| 12 | Wickham had been proud of her , and was devastated when she said they should separate . |
| 13 | It was the last thing I needed to know as I prayed it would miss us . |
| 14 | Unless there is a particular problem I would propose to delay altering the stops until moving the shelter can be organised as I think it would be confusing , not to say unpopular , to do otherwise . |
| 15 | ‘ Why — thank heaven — did n't you resign as you said you would ? ’ |
| 16 | This is all realistic and is happening as I think it would if small boys were alone on an island . |
| 17 | Okay read that one then , as you say As you claim you ca n't read it . |
| 18 | While it may not succeed where it thinks it can , if it thinks it ca n't the probability is that it wo n't . |
| 19 | but , then again with Eileen you never know with Eileen she says well it 's , it depends on our Sandra she said I 'm not building up on it cos you know what she is , but she says if you know she might want Alan to come and then she goes on and , and then , then she says I do n't know what we shall do really if we do come , she says cos if Eileen wo n't , she 's work , really ca n't come if Alan comes |
| 20 | Unless I mean this hedgehog could have been done if I left it could n't it ? |
| 21 | The first thing they 'd do if they captured one would be to hack off the two forefingers of each hand , the very ones our archers used to pull a long bow . |
| 22 | Dep it depends if you think you could last two nights without me . |
| 23 | It do n't matter whether you say I wo n't say anything cos it always comes back . |
| 24 | This last judgement ( although it is commonly made ) is speculative , of course , as the scribe is normally anonymous , but it is analogous to rejecting live speakers from a random sample on the grounds that they do not speak as we think they ought to speak , or rejecting attested spoken forms on the grounds that they are not what we would expect in some particular location . |
| 25 | She says as I say I 'll have to wait and see what she says , because she said , you know when weather gets better , oh I says you 're better off waiting while it gets better weather |
| 26 | If I had done as they said there would have been no chance of being fit enough for the expedition . |
| 27 | ‘ Thank Heavens for William , ’ she has since said as it meant she could now quite properly forsake the pills she was proffered by arguing that she did not want to risk physical or mental deformity in the baby she was carrying . |
| 28 | People do n't do as they say they will do . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , the rich merchant was very powerful , and he came to control things in the city , and he made everybody do as he thought they ought to do ; snowball-throwing was made illegal , and children had to eat up all their food . |
| 30 | In the present circumstances , when most people have the same beliefs about killing we do , that fact is not our dominant reason for acting as we think we should . |