Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] [modal v] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or feel they could do it ? |
| 2 | But no : she has hung around the DHSS while clerks forgot her like she was goods in the stockroom , and now she has a chit that says they 'll pay her lodging at the boarding house . |
| 3 | ‘ I never thought that screwing you would get you back . ’ |
| 4 | cost you far more getting it like that than saying we 'll support you |
| 5 | ‘ And the places that knew them shall know them no more . ’ |
| 6 | She had n't been looking forward to this session ; yet , deep down , there was a contrary twinge niggling at her sexuality that insisted she might enjoy it . |
| 7 | ‘ If you touch that fish I 'll have you up the steps before you can say Jack Robinson , ’ hissed Herbie , going blue in the face ‘ Whaddya mean , ’ argued Lofty , ‘ I found im and I got ta licence . ’ |
| 8 | The young Beatrice Webb was convinced of the importance of family life for women and during the 1880s desperately desired an intimate relationship with the leading politician , Joseph Chamberlain , yet she knew that to marry him would cut her off for ever from the purposeful life of work that she also wanted . |
| 9 | Devious devil ; she should have known better than to think she could fool him . |
| 10 | She should have known better than to think he would bring it to her , miserable sinner that she was . |
| 11 | alright , fair enough , if , if the , if the deformity is mobile that means you can move it , you can actually do a lot of manipulation and physiotherapy and that can work very well . |
| 12 | The Frenchman spoke the final words in a tone that suggested he would find it disagreeable to discuss the subject further , and the senator lapsed into silence . |
| 13 | What we would advocate , as indeed Mr Smith did earlier , is that there should be a a global figure for Greater York , and a reduction , in an appropriate reduction in the requirement for each district , and I believe that anticipating you might ask me what that is what that reduction should be , erm I I can say it must be related to the ca capacity , of that district within Greater York . |
| 14 | Must now conclude trusting my dear that every blessing will attend you and trusting I may find you well when I return — kiss dear Fritz [ ? ] for me and believe me to remain Eliza |
| 15 | ‘ If you were n't already so bruised and battered I 'd turn you over my knee and make sure you had nothing to laugh about . ’ |
| 16 | Bookmarks are easy to make and using one will help you look after your books . |
| 17 | We could then leave it and say we 'll pick it up in an hour or so |
| 18 | The Chicheley-Smythes have bought an absolutely super villa in Sardinia and say we could rent it if we 'd like to . |
| 19 | I may be tempted to offer the spontaneous inclination itself as reason for my choice , and say I shall do it because I want to do it ; but in examining myself objectively I see that a fact about my wants and likes would be directly relevant only to a causal explanation of my actions , and could be used in deciding what to do only as I use any other objective facts . |
| 20 | Spokesman Mark Glover said : ‘ We have been supported by Linda McCartney , Elton John and others in the past and hope they 'll support us now . ’ |
| 21 | After the case jobless Heath said : ‘ I still love her and hope we can make it back together . ’ |
| 22 | When the Frenchman signed for Leeds at the start of the year , I said that he was more a Manchester United player than a Leeds man — and I still believe that now , and hope he will prove it . |
| 23 | You know it 's a magical item and hope he can use it . ) |
| 24 | Those which have are reaping impressive rewards simply by identifying precisely the services or products customers want ; looking at their most lucrative areas ; finding out what clients really value ; and establishing what would make them move to a competing hotel . |
| 25 | If meeting him could make you reach for something a lot stronger than H 2 O , you will be relieved to hear that he 's anchored to the ground . |
| 26 | That was bad enough , but when he told my daughter it started three weeks after they married and lasted until three months ago , she threw him out and she 's changed the locks of the house and says she will divorce him . |
| 27 | and says he 'll ring you . |
| 28 | But when — suddenly — for no apparent reason your twin rejects the offer of marriage from the man you always believed she loved , and whom you always loved yourself ; when she turns round and says you can marry him yourself if you feel that strongly about him … suddenly your world is upside down . |
| 29 | She drew a line down the centre of Stella 's nose with a stick of No.5 and gestured she should rub it in . |
| 30 | The Widow Douglas , she took me for her son , and allowed she would sivilize me ; but it was rough living in the house all the time , considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways ; and so when I could n't stand it no longer , I lit out . |