Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] [conj] [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old stopcocks were not made to a standard size and it may take some searching in plumbers ’ merchants to find something that will enable you to connect new copper pipe . |
| 2 | In the long run we still want something that will enable us to stop the resistance completely , ’ she said . |
| 3 | In the wind and rattle sounds I 'd hear her start to cry and put my arm around her and lift her chin and say something that would calm her . |
| 4 | Say something that will get her … interested . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You mean that you do know something that may help them ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ There is nothing I can tell you , Officer , ’ said Iris in her stilted French , ‘ but my friend has something that may interest you . ’ |
| 7 | I do n't know if umm Jeff or , would know anybody or can do anything with this . |
| 8 | Fortunately , and by pure chance , I had said nothing that could lead her to assume that we thought that she was travelling with them — as arranged . ’ |
| 9 | Why do n't you do something that will get you somewhere , Karim ? ’ |
| 10 | She must never ever do anything that might make them fight . |
| 11 | I 'm a pretty perceptive person , I understand people quite well , but I never dreamt that my mother could do anything that would damage my daughter so greatly . |
| 12 | Editor , — Allyson M Pollock and Azeem Majeed 's arguments in response to our editorial on consultant episodes could perhaps be summarised as ‘ the internal market is intrinsically flawed and we should not do anything that would delay its demise . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I still think you 're totally wrong , but I 'd never do anything that could endanger you — or the club . ’ |
| 14 | Jack Russells are difficult animals to teach to retrieve — I have only had one that would do it properly — but they can be taught to work nets , drive rabbits into nets and to be thoroughly disciplined in all they do . |
| 15 | I think that the tour around the factory will be quick , but you may see something that will set your mental cogs turning again . |
| 16 | I refuse to hear anything that might disrupt my own plans . |
| 17 | ‘ We do n't like anything that might give someone the idea to stick a poor fish in beer . |
| 18 | All you can really do is construct something that will divert it or block its way for a while ; persuade it to do something it does n't really want to do . |
| 19 | I hope you 've heard something that 'll make you think , and think positively and perhaps act positively . |
| 20 | Give me ten years and I 'll make something that can do it in twenty . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Too busy to do something that might benefit your mother ? ’ |
| 22 | She looked wistfully up the companionway to the square of blue sky , but fought the urge to go up on deck , scared he might ask her to do something that would reveal her ignorance . |
| 23 | Plan to do something that will take you out of the house and , perhaps , go for a long walk . |
| 24 | I 'd be lucky ter get anybody that could match 'er in the kitchen . |
| 25 | ‘ This will be an opportunity for them to come into their own but without having to do anything that might upset their families . ’ |
| 26 | It was dangerous , too , to appear too over-confident , or to do anything that might provoke him into making his unofficial fatwa slightly more public than it was already . |
| 27 | ‘ The Government is pinning its hopes for economic recovery on the housing market , so it would n't want to do anything that would snuff it out , ’ said Mike Simpson , Suffolk spokesman for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors . |
| 28 | Why would I want to do anything that would lessen my chances of making money ? ’ |
| 29 | Is not that the most open admission yet that , despite the honeyed words of the Secretary of State for Scotland , he has done nothing , is doing nothing and will do nothing to intervene in any way to help to save the Ravenscraig plant ? |
| 30 | ‘ Tom , I might have something that can help you with the Lewis case . ’ |