Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [adv] [verb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Anyone else And I 'll just give Right Caroline .
2 Of course , if it 's really painful , forget it , I 'll be fine , and I 'm writing , and if it gets a bit unlively I could perhaps find somewhere else-
3 Er , I dare n't give away Rosemary and John , 'cos they 're the only two that can understand what the hell I 'm talking about .
4 I would n't know actually Keith at the moment .
5 Often when ladies come along to join my class , they say , ‘ I ca n't get below 10st ( 63.5 kg ) ’ .
6 I ca n't see even Hitler causing trouble for the Swedish , he needs our iron ore too much .
7 We did , of course , over the years of working closely together come to have some very frank exchanges , but the afternoon I am recalling was still early in our relationship and I can not see even Miss Kenton having been so forward .
8 Somehow , I can not see either Monte Carlo or Hamburg allowing their status to be lowered without a fight .
9 Sometimes those persons may live in a different country ( as in the case of Nepal and India , for example ) , which may well create both problems and opportunities for the funding and joint cooperation of soil conservation ventures .
10 Mr Woodward , a police dog handler for ten years , launched the course , which would normally cost about £300 , to stress the importance of training .
11 Yet the suggestion that there should be a power to impose selective bans was rejected , neither police nor judges appearing willing to become involved in such a politically sensitive task , the exercise of which would certainly bring forth accusations of bias .
12 This profitability is maintained by a balancing act ; the fundamental chemical industry balance summed up in the fact that if you want to get the utmost out of sodium chloride , you should n't have either sodium or chlorine left over unsold at the end of the day ; not much use increasing the use of one if you ca n't increase use of the other in proportion .
13 Little more than a year ago you could n't give away shares in the small computer company sector — so friendless were they that Star Computer Group Plc found it necessary to get into bed with a purveyor of pizzas to improve its visibility and rating : after Tadpole Technology Plc and now Division Group Plc — which soared to 107 pence on its first day of trading from the 40 pence placing price before settling at 96 pence — the rest of the sector looks set for a re-rating as investors seek to discern hidden charms that others have overlooked .
14 ca n't , you ca n't accuse just Jean of corruption , they 've got to they 've got to accuse the development corporation of corruption as well .
15 You ca n't go nowhere man .
16 Wilkinson described his team 's display as ‘ a Jekyll and Hyde performance ’ , adding : ‘ You ca n't give away goals like that .
17 You do n't lose the use of your PC 's printer port because it 's duplicated on the back of the tape unit , though obviously you ca n't use both printer and tape at the same time .
18 She wanted to be so busy she would n't have either time or energy to wonder about him , to dream , or hope .
19 Kissing and cuddling the tot she feared she would never see again Bernadette , 24 , had just one word for the emotional homecoming : ‘ Brilliant . ’
20 You will also need approximately £170 each year for books .
21 You wo n't go late night shopping ?
22 Instead of being an act of service , making money and owning things can become purely selfish activities ; and it is in this sense that our Lord issues the warning that ‘ you can not serve both God and Mammon , and tells the story of the very prosperous farmer who is destroyed by his self-indulgence .
23 Another feature of DLT is that it will ask for a yes or no answer before deleting each file , you can also delete only files with a specific extension in a specific directory e.g. DLT C : \*.;
24 Er , a very negative form of er , of behaviour , can be , you can actually get highly directive , and start telling people , erm , we 've already identified that influences , not having that ability to tell , it 's something that people try and do it , it 's a , it 's a facade , that people put up and get behind them .
25 I would simply suggest that we should not allow either sentimentality or a genuine concern for retaining decentralized powers in general to distract us from the major , and separate , task of attempting to determine a common policy for all education at all stages in the future .
26 Our thanks were properly offered to Vince , Geoff , Carol and Sue for their expert demonstration and we shall never see either Kevin or Phil in the same light again .
27 We ca n't go yet Andrew , the lights are on red .
28 We ca n't give away Sue and Richard 's dream home , but we can offer BBC Gardeners ' World Magazine readers a taste of the good life .
29 there 's more people this end , we ca n't get there dad .
30 What we can not countenance though sir , is any widening o of the route that they seek to go down , to have these sites included in the greenbelt , and that 's to say to entertain the argument that the whole of Skelton ought to be washed-over .
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