Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] [adv] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should say just pay your own and that 's enough |
| 2 | I should have just put my foot down and knocked him over . |
| 3 | It 's an eight-way-scrolling arcade extravaganza with graphics and sound I could have cheerfully shot my grandmother for . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This would eliminate the insiders ' opportunity to profit from insider news , which would have already made its impact on the market . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If he is arming , you must do likewise to avoid your worst outcome ( to get 2 rather than 1 ) . |
| 15 | This should come naturally , since you should have already researched your potential client and his or her business . |
| 16 | The time flew and at three o'clock Madame Delon rose , saying that she must leave now to catch her bus . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm not married ! ’ she retorted , and for a few moments as her world righted itself and she realised that she must have momentarily got her wires crossed , because he had already told her he was not married , she realised too that , up until a moment ago , he must have thought her — Mrs Barnaby Stewart . |
| 18 | But that calculation had gone up in smoke with the original letter , and since then she must have bitterly regretted her rashness . |
| 19 | ‘ You 'll do well to keep your numbers within bounds . |
| 20 | If so , you 'll have probably booked your place in a hall of residence , your grant will arrive on the first day of term , you 'll be ready to enjoy Freshers ' Fair and soon settle down to studies in the library . |
| 21 | That was one thing about the village , and your your neighbour would where Jane is the now , I do n't think she 'll have hardly seen her neighbour in Dumfries , but here they were always you know |
| 22 | No amount of persuasion would induce her to stay with us for more than a few days before she 'd vanish again to pursue her old habits , and on New Year 's Day 1967 , the police called for the last time . |
| 23 | You 'd you 'd do better to use your own colours if you 've got . |
| 24 | ‘ You 'd do better to ask your gamekeeper , ’ he said . |
| 25 | You 'd have still got your wheels . |
| 26 | You could sit here doing your Daily Telegraph crossword puzzle , and never know there was mayhem upstairs . |
| 27 | Fabia put the phone down having promised that she would telephone again to let her mother know if she was not going to be back in Hawk Lacey by next Wednesday . |
| 28 | At that moment she would have willingly given her right arm to be anywhere but on Nathan Bryce 's boat . |
| 29 | If she 'd been more of a woman , he believed , she would have meekly accepted his word and left it at that . |
| 30 | If Mrs Grey had found that she was having twins in the delivery room , I think she would have quickly changed her mind about the usefulness of scans . |