Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | High welfare benefits may attract electoral support from the recipients , but the high taxes to pay for them may lead to electoral unpopularity with the wider population ; balancing the two is a difficult political act . |
| 2 | I look forward to hearing thoughtful and far-reaching speeches such as that made by the hon. Member for Chichester when these matters are discussed at Maastricht , and I hope that views such as his will be reflected in Maastricht — a subject to which I may return in due course . |
| 3 | It is , as I may say from repeated experience , a pure and unmixed pleasure to have a goodly volume lying before you , and to know that you … need not open it unless you please … |
| 4 | My Lords , that concludes my analysis of what I perceive to be the important British cases but before seeking to draw conclusions therefrom I must refer to certain Commonwealth and American cases . |
| 5 | However insignificant in myself I am the Representative on this question of no mean body in this country who would be … disappointed and chagrined at the suspension of the question — But further — and this is a consideration far more really influential on my Conduct — I can not but feel myself the Representative of a Body who can not speak for themselves and for whom I must act without other guide than my own Conscience . |
| 6 | Erm but er when the war finished , when the war finished and the Home Guard stood down , I ca n't remember who was the mayor of Walsall at the time , but they had a reception in the town hall for the Home Guard and everyone that was in the Home Guard was invited before we hand before we st handed our uniforms in , was invited to attend and I must say with great pride that I was can still remember it now , that the wife and I went to the reception and I was in the uniform and it 'd be the mace bearer I presume that was at the door and he asked your name and er rank and he shouted out your name and rank when you went in and you was greeted by the mayor and mayoress inside the ves the hall of the town hall , and erm I mean er quite proud to be Corporal and Mrs you know and it I mean everyone that went , I mean their rank and name and who was with them , you know , was it was quite quite a er er quite a something of to look back to of interest that was , you know , when we stood down . |
| 7 | ‘ I must keep in good health , and not die , ’ I replied . |
| 8 | It was decided I should go to special school and my mother 's objections were mollified by the proof of the academic success that many girls achieved there . |
| 9 | I should view with great consternation any attempt to exclude Resident Tutors from any towns or villages … |
| 10 | I should apologize for canned soup , but I spent so long talking to Stanley this morning |
| 11 | That a creature of his should fall into mortal sin , and that of a violent kind , was astonishment enough , but that this pliable mortal should ever undertake personal action of any kind came as an even greater shock . |
| 12 | And as he said it , shifty-eyes-with-dandruff ( and I 'll throw in bad breath ) put out a hand for my arm . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll get into awful trouble , wo n't I ? ’ |
| 14 | Erm so erm what we 've got then is is the the idea of ah looking at some kind of behavioural analysis , although I 'll got into behavioural analysis in just a few minutes . |
| 15 | If I do n't get into dry clothes soon , I 'll die of double pneumonia . ’ |
| 16 | How could I phrase the question so that I could distinguish between free choice and manipulative coercion ? |
| 17 | To clear myself I could appear in secret session before the McCarthy committee so that nobody would know . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , it was the best I could do at short notice . ’ |
| 19 | He did n't notice me , but lapsed heavily into what even I could recognize as elementary German . |
| 20 | I could continue at great length . |
| 21 | I could sense with new delight |
| 22 | As I said before , I could go to half-day school here . |
| 23 | If I could go to bloody work , I would ! |
| 24 | After I was at court I had to go back to Low Newton to wait for a few weeks before I could go to Styal prison . |
| 25 | ‘ Sometimes I could kill for fresh pasta . ’ |
| 26 | I felt I could weep with nostalgic affection . |
| 27 | I have already mentioned the stipulation that before I could qualify for married status I should have passed two language exams . |
| 28 | So I brought them home with me so I could , I could take in actual fact I could take them back . |
| 29 | ‘ Given the choice I 'd go to borstal anyday . ’ |
| 30 | I 've got better odds than I 'd get at Russian roulette — twenty to one , at least . |