Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [verb] [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | You think I should have been living life to the full , then , and not mourning your brother ? ’ |
2 | He said slowly and dangerously , ‘ I daresay I might have been four bob down at the end of an evening . |
3 | Well , well what I 'll do is next week I 'll |
4 | I could have been old JC himself , I tell you , riding into Jerusalem on his donkey , ready to spread the Good News . |
5 | ‘ Anyway , all I could see were violet eyes and a wide smile , and , after a few weeks of being slowly driven to distraction by your lovely ghost following me around , I decided to come to England . |
6 | Some of the things I could see were some sheep droppings , a stone or two , my rucksack and an aluminium ring pull from someone 's can of juice . |
7 | She 'll go up up the path and all I could see was this cat , and it was hanging on for dear life up this big tree and there |
8 | I mean I I 'd having been these comments and yes there are a couple of extra points put in there I think that that 's fine . |
9 | Well , all I would say is that youca nt really be too critical of players in what is only their second match . |
10 | I would have been 3.5 ft tall . |
11 | Emma had mounted the first step of the stairs and she was unwinding her scarf when she turned and looked down on her mother , saying , ‘ I would have been many things if I had been brought up in peace . ’ |
12 | I do n't actually know if I would have been best friends with her had I not met her before , but we get along well now , + are well suited . |
13 | Nicola , who had shed tears of disappointment , said : ‘ Another two seconds and I would have been Olympic champion — the girl 's eyes were going red . |
14 | The other vineyards were all wiped out in the phylloxera epidemic of the last century and never replanted ; but lonely though it is on the local wine lists , Irouléguy will do nicely ; I have never got much beyond the stage of dividing wines into nice and nasty when it comes to describing them , so all I shall say is that Irouléguy is nice . |
15 | All I can detect is great size and power . |
16 | The only thing I can do is straightforward police work . " |
17 | The best example I can give is one stretch on the Hampshire Avon . |
18 | If you say so sir , the only thing I can suggest is that fact that er that the noise the door opener was making and the fact I opened the door very shortly afterwards , he can only assume the door opener worked . |
19 | Well what I can find are eight days , where for two hours , my primary focus can be these labels , producing the labels . |
20 | The best I can say is that Boy looked something like , or had something like the feel of , Paul Newman when he 's playing the character christened Chance Wayne in that Tennessee Williams film . |
21 | But after failing to sway villagers attending the annual meeting , he allowed himself to comment : ‘ Well , all I can say is good luck to you and your children . ’ |
22 | The only problem that I can see is that fact that many books can not be taken home and that many sources can not be photocopied . |
23 | All I can see is empty pavement . |
24 | It 's all dark and all I can see are these metal cages all round . |
25 | But knowing what she ought to do was one thing — putting it into action seemed to be quite another . |
26 | She may have been three years older than he was , pushing forty and not quite as pert as the sort of girl he favoured at this precise moment , but one day Jack would grow up , look for a real woman to take care of him , and there she 'd be , waiting and ready . |
27 | What you must remember is that sexuality is as basic a consciousness as information . ’ |
28 | ‘ To the pigs with the slops , where you should have been this mornin' , ’ replied his wife . |
29 | She might have been any age between thirty and sixty and Wexford set the lower limit so low only because of her young children . |
30 | So in this chapter you will find some pointers for looking at what you might think are everyday activities . |