Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] [verb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I may not know how Selkirk died but I think I know why . ’ |
| 2 | I rang Transend to ask about a registered copy , but they informed me that they did n't register that game , but that I should just write out cheque for the amount a cross out the £ and pout $ . |
| 3 | Anyone else And I 'll just give Right Caroline . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll just see how Jim is getting on . ’ |
| 5 | I 'll just put down voucher for compensation case to be investigated |
| 6 | ‘ Bit off colour these last few months , ’ he 'd tell visitors , ‘ but I 'll soon trot out sound . ’ |
| 7 | I 'll probably ring up James and ask him what he 's done . |
| 8 | The 13-goal marksman 's chances of being fit have improved since he started the treatment and his manager Ron Atkinson said : ‘ If he does make it and this machine has done the trick I 'll gladly pay out Pounds 25,000 myself to buy one . ’ |
| 9 | I 'll never forget how th'near slaughtered that feller — or the five golden guineas th'won for me off that dozy dago as set the Creole on thee . |
| 10 | But , when I finally found a nurse , I could n't remember where Gabrielle 's room was . |
| 11 | So I do just wonder if I could n't pick out point say 1 and 2 of Q P5 and 6 which are about booking and booking forms and confirming the commission of qualitative through to whatever is required during the run off of it and then add the quality control check and finally you have got this , the final review . |
| 12 | Derry City boss Roy Coyle was also on his trail but Stewart said last night : ‘ I could n't turn down Glentoran . |
| 13 | ‘ Ten years ago I could n't understand why people wanted to watch old geezers hitting a ball about , but now I do , ’ said Jacklin . |
| 14 | The substitution did seem strange as I could n't see why Wallace was being taken off and not Deane ( or a defender ) . |
| 15 | I had no intention of answering a Parliamentary question on soggy ham sandwiches and I could not see why Government was involved in the commercial operation at all . |
| 16 | I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other . |
| 17 | I could not understand why Hindley , who hated him , would want his company , and I felt sure it would have been better for all of us if Heathcliff had never come back . |
| 18 | At first I could not understand how Beethoven could triumph over God . |
| 19 | Another bonus arrived within a week , when I had the first glimpse from the sea of the opposite coastline of Koraloona , with its empty sandy beaches and the great dormant volcano of High Island rearing up behind it , while in the distance I could even make out Hodges , the copra island . |
| 20 | I could just make out part of the stonework , though most of it was under water . |
| 21 | I could just make out Tobermory , looking like an Anne Redpath painting , cubes of white and blue and primrose and Venetian red , the houses and shops strung out along the bay , tiny in the distance . |
| 22 | I can see fields and reservoirs and a motorway service station , and , given the proper magnification , I could probably make out Parish Clerk Weekley still on his roof waiting for his next photocall . |
| 23 | Of course , if it 's really painful , forget it , I 'll be fine , and I 'm writing , and if it gets a bit unlively I could perhaps find somewhere else- ’ |
| 24 | " I could never understand why Aunt Alicia had to rent part of Moorlake , " Sara said . |
| 25 | I could never understand why Crusoe left his paradise in the first place ; wild horses would not have dragged me from Juan Fernandez . |
| 26 | And er er I I could never understand why people that obviously could hear what went on and pretended they never . |
| 27 | I could never understand why Tom Brown |
| 28 | I 'd rather cut down expenses in other ways than stop sending presents . |
| 29 | Normally I 'd also put out road blocks but in this case it 's already too late . ’ |
| 30 | And Lucy had promised ; therefore she now said , ‘ I 'm sorry — I promised my mother I 'd never pick up people I do n't know . ’ |