Example sentences of "[vb infin] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's , that 's Now when you 've got an A squared minus B squared , you can factorize that I mean you could just do that on your calculator , and do it in one go , but it 's quite easy to do it as three point O one . |
| 2 | within one big area i i if you can and I think shutting things , I think putting trellising up to , not trellising but that sort of thing , to a certain extent at the minute we do n't need and I think I 'll have to come a time er too when it 's open as well to get |
| 3 | I do n't know cos we thought you 'd be the only one who actually managed to get a copy when nobody else could lay their fice for the af from two o'clock in the afternoon yeah F finalised |
| 4 | So we need more space and we think we 'll get it . |
| 5 | And I said I do n't know but I said I should n't think it would be too late . |
| 6 | Oh I do n't know but I mean I would n't have thought so . |
| 7 | Whether it 's slipped again I do n't know but he said he 'll look . |
| 8 | She does n't know , I do n't suppose she 'll know till she got there will she ? |
| 9 | I mean I do n't know whether she thought she could put them in the garden when she got to the new place and they 'd grow but |
| 10 | ‘ Why — thank heaven — did n't you resign as you said you would ? ’ |
| 11 | While it may not succeed where it thinks it can , if it thinks it ca n't the probability is that it wo n't . |
| 12 | But er given the er the position in terms of there is a policy statement in the structure plan which refers to the A sixty one and A fifty nine relief roads , er if it 's going to be helpful then e as well as the er A fifty nine , then it would be appropriate to show the western relief road rather than a series of er of arrows , to similarly show that I think we 'd have to show that as two st two er stars or arrows rather than one because we would need to er indicate both to the north and south of the A fifty nine . |
| 13 | The first thing they 'd do if they captured one would be to hack off the two forefingers of each hand , the very ones our archers used to pull a long bow . |
| 14 | It do n't matter whether you say I wo n't say anything cos it always comes back . |
| 15 | This last judgement ( although it is commonly made ) is speculative , of course , as the scribe is normally anonymous , but it is analogous to rejecting live speakers from a random sample on the grounds that they do not speak as we think they ought to speak , or rejecting attested spoken forms on the grounds that they are not what we would expect in some particular location . |
| 16 | People do n't do as they say they will do . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , the rich merchant was very powerful , and he came to control things in the city , and he made everybody do as he thought they ought to do ; snowball-throwing was made illegal , and children had to eat up all their food . |
| 18 | Do I understand that you think we should enter again next year ? ( b ) |
| 19 | I hope my decision to pay tax will help you understand that I accept I must be accountable to those I serve . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'd like to play a role in the Lords sometime but I 'll have to wait and see if anyone thinks I 'd be useful there now . ’ |
| 21 | Not , he wrote ( and Goldberg went on typing ) , that here in London one is cut off from such supplies in the normal course of events , but that work can not begin until one knows one will not have to bother with such things , for a while at least . |
| 22 | He would n't remember and I hoped she would n't ask nasty questions . |
| 23 | But like , I do n't mind cos I know he wo n't say anything . |
| 24 | She did not argue because she knew she would not win ; she did not weep because she knew she would be rebuked . |
| 25 | How dare you ask somebody else if you can run when I say you ca n't . |
| 26 | I do n't suggest that I think I should keep going on a year by year basis . |
| 27 | I do n't think prices will drop and I think it will be a nice way of life once we get used to it . |
| 28 | He could n't sleep if he thought there might be a plug in a socket somewhere . |
| 29 | ‘ We have our fingers crossed that all the right things will happen and we hope they will be a big success . ’ |
| 30 | she probably would n't become a manager , because usually you think you can change and develop but I think she 'll be then be able to become a manager and she 'll sort of learn , but she 'd have to actually change her personality for it . |