Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [verb] [adv] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the delicacy of her person and the brilliancy of her eye she had tinder enough in her constitution to catch a well struck spark and I trusted I should know how to set her ablaze in a few months more . |
| 2 | I should say just pay your own and that 's enough |
| 3 | I should have just put my foot down and knocked him over . |
| 4 | ‘ I might end up knocking her teeth out . ’ |
| 5 | Afterwards , I 'll come back to collect my things and go . |
| 6 | I could end up having my weekend on a Tuesday ! ’ |
| 7 | It 's an eight-way-scrolling arcade extravaganza with graphics and sound I could have cheerfully shot my grandmother for . |
| 8 | But in the course of developing our case we have found no grounds upon which I could have validly chosen my present ends except that they are the ones to which I spontaneously tended when most aware ; on what grounds then could I persist in preferring these ends to a further advance in awareness which would undermine them ? |
| 9 | ‘ I went on a submarine trip when I was 16 , and it was the greatest thing I could imagine then to serve my country in a submarine . |
| 10 | and I could get along holding their arms , you know , one each side |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd love to splash out on lovely bits of lacy stuff , but I 'd do better spending my money on a deep-fat fryer for all the notice my other half would take . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd prefer not to divulge their names . |
| 13 | That I 'd dredge up to dress my ‘ count |
| 14 | If I had landed on the ski-track , which was hard-packed and icy , I 'd have probably broken my neck , but I seemed to swerve off centre and thus landed in a soft snow-bank and lay panting , stunned and breathless , for a few minutes . |
| 15 | Well you , I went on the stage Saturday morning , then I used to come home to have my lunch and start digging . |
| 16 | ‘ If things did n't carry on the way they have been , I would carry on enjoying my life . |
| 17 | But I would prefer not to alert our Ministry of the Interior — given that this has been purely a secret service matter of the DGSE until now . |
| 18 | I would prefer not to have my guy stand up and say I may have been involved in an assassination . ’ |
| 19 | I would like then to draw your attention to standing order C page , paragraph four , all speeches shall be concise and relevant to the matter in hand . |
| 20 | I shall sit down to discuss my plans this month and not in June . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I shall be in the studio on Monday and I shall carry on making my observations , I will praise the team if they deserve it . |
| 22 | For myself , emboldened by your example , I will set out to reform my family and household instantly . |
| 23 | Chop it up into elephant steaks , bung it into the deep freeze , and over a period of say two , three years , every Friday night have an elephant steak , but in three years ' time , I will have actually achieved my objective . |
| 24 | That 's that 's it until I know or I know what I 'm actually looking for in it I can run around chasing me tail all day which |
| 25 | At Heathrow I 'd been asked specifically not to tranquillise him in case of the possibility of side-effects which could have seriously affected his future stud career . |
| 26 | Although the NF had won the May general election [ see p. 38188 ] it did not have the necessary two-thirds of the seats in the National Assembly which would have automatically awarded its candidate the presidency . |
| 27 | This would eliminate the insiders ' opportunity to profit from insider news , which would have already made its impact on the market . |
| 28 | an elaborate algorithm which builds a directed graph of concepts incrementally , and which can decide where to concentrate its effort to best effect . |
| 29 | December 7 , 1786 : I am in a fair way of becoming as eminent as Thomas a Kempis or John Bunyan , and you may expect henceforth to see my birthday inserted among the wonderful events in the Poor Robin 's and Aberdeen Almanacks , along with the black Monday and the battle of Bothwell Bridge . |
| 30 | If he is arming , you must do likewise to avoid your worst outcome ( to get 2 rather than 1 ) . |