Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Afterwards Jared Tunstall had said to her mama , ‘ It was a question of a little hustler meeting a big one , and if it were n't that he has hurt Sally-Anne so badly I could almost admire the swine for his gall . |
| 2 | Right I 'll just make a note of that . |
| 3 | Luckily I could still ride the bike . |
| 4 | And then they tried to take and I said Well thank you very much I wo n't have a refund after all . |
| 5 | ‘ Naturally I ca n't phone the police . ’ |
| 6 | Only I ca n't get a chance to study in the meantime . |
| 7 | I know then there is no one but me — only I can possibly stop the fountain of blood and minced flesh which my sister will become in those flashing , fluttering blades . |
| 8 | I think perhaps I 'll just have a little bit of water I 'm very thirsty , I know I have n't |
| 9 | Perhaps I might just take the chance to say that if there is a local group that would like to hospitality to people from developing countries that are at the Institute , we always welcome that sort of opportunity and invitation . |
| 10 | Well , perhaps I wo n't light the fire until half past eleven or something to try and make it go that bit further . |
| 11 | Perhaps I should just say a word about that that operation since you 've raised it , because it is one type of job that we do , that is taking part in a rather large group , in this case sponsored by the Commonwealth Secretariat at the request of the government of Uganda after the fall of erm of Amin , to assess the rehabilitation needs of the country and to suggest what policies should be priority policies for their point of view and what contribution could be made by other countries through aid and erm other ways of technical assistance and fellowships for training and so forth , to help in this rehabilitation . |
| 12 | The only complaint — and she was not really complaining against her uncle , perhaps I should rather say the cause for depression — was that from time to time she was very homesick and longed to see her mother and girls of her own age . ’ |
| 13 | Perhaps I should always take the case for his solution as being 20% stronger than it would otherwise appear to me to be . |
| 14 | The erm safety on the transport yes I mean I am very happy to say that we will ask the , the staff to look at that and perhaps I can just clarify the meaning of that paragraph ah in four point eight when it says a m a new member of staff it means a new member of staff will be responsible for health and safety not just one person on his own . |
| 15 | I Obviously I ca n't preempt a discussion , but if we think on the evidence we see in in October that er that that is the course to take , we would do so . |
| 16 | On the question of the period between now and the general election , obviously I can not predict the exact course that events will follow . |
| 17 | Personally I 'd rather buy a pack of cards and play the game for real , or buy one of those magazines you find on the top shelf of the newsagents . |
| 18 | Personally I could n't give a damn about your private life . ’ |
| 19 | Beep in the ear is so important just a second ago , because if we had this on , busy on the phone , and the next caller comes through , because it was my phone , those calls would go through to Hilary , so I would n't get a beep in the ear would I ? |
| 20 | I would n't use a bulletproof , well in certain circumstances I might , but I 'm not trained to carry a firearm so I would n't use a I , hopefully , I wo n't get selected to go into a house where I need to wear a bulletproof uniform . |
| 21 | when I 'm going so I 'll just allow the same . |
| 22 | And I 'll now ask them , everybody else is present , so I 'll now ask the Clerk to read the minutes of the previous meeting please . |
| 23 | Right so I wo n't draw a graph , but we 'll see if we can work out a sketch of a graph , roughly what it 's like . |
| 24 | And like , so I ca n't close the door . |
| 25 | I have n't got any headphones so I ca n't have a |
| 26 | Er and this is exactly what we are doing , so I ca n't see the policy er of policing of changing at all . |
| 27 | So I ca n't criticize the decision of the court on that or or the way the solicitors dealt with it . |
| 28 | So I can just have a quick check and make sure they are okay , but I 'm pretty sure if you think they 're right |
| 29 | Yes , yes , and then Barnsley , so I can still get a bit of a rough . |
| 30 | erm , so I could n't carry the wallpaper so the lass says well you ca n't carry it , she says I 'll phone you a taxi , I says okay , so she phoned this , she says any , any particular one , I says I 'll have that one beside us like so phoned association , they 'll be erm , you , you know call up and they came and er pick me up and brought us back with the paper , he charged one pound twenty and I 'm saying to myself one pound twenty , that 's a damn disgrace , by hell I 'll not get that taxi again |