Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I regret I can not give the correct pronunciation of the Gaelic names of the mountains : I never mastered them , adopting instead roughly similar English equivalents ; thus , for example , Ceathreamhnan to me was Chrysanthemum … |
| 2 | I regret I can not give the petitioner relief . |
| 3 | And I mean I ca n't thank the people enough that sent them all . |
| 4 | Besides , I mean I ca n't have a fag ! |
| 5 | I mean I ca n't see the government allowing a building society to actually get into erm er a case of insolvency , I think it , the , the , I think the Building Society Association would force a merger , but it may be on very poor terms or er you know , whatever . |
| 6 | but I mean I 'd rather have a Calibre than that definitely |
| 7 | I know they all have but I mean I 'd rather have the ordinary names and then |
| 8 | ‘ Then if I go back and change I can still make the reception . ’ |
| 9 | The trouble with anonymous contributions to this page , not that I 'm not grateful for anything I can get , is that the people who send them ca n't get a lovely Community Care mug whereas those like Nicholas Holbrook , ( see below ) who refuse to hide their creative light under a bushel , have a mug winging its way to them at this very moment . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll come up this evenin' , ’ said Linda , ‘ and if 'er shoes want a polish , I fink I could find some spit for 'er , I expect I could easy find a penn'orth . ’ |
| 11 | I say I 'll just unplug the wall . |
| 12 | ( Pity you ca n't edit the team or player names though ) . |
| 13 | I was just about to say I expect you could really make a mess if you tried and then I realized I was covered in and I 'd better shut up . |
| 14 | They might well have done of course they might have refused it 's the B B C they say you ca n't have a bottle |
| 15 | Er , yes , well , I 'd , I 'd , er , I 'd like to make two proposals , first of all that we formally congratulate our officers for leading the team that er , put together this successful bid , erm , but I 'd also like to say something about these concerns about the boundaries because it 's Oswestry again , amongst mainly the sort of north of the county around Oswestry , which like with the rural development area , could be left out , and , of course , economic development does n't stop at a parish boundary people cross it , it 's part of their economic activity and erm , I know that some of the sort of proposed projects put together for the use of this five B money , er , around the Oswestry area , are extremely desirable projects , er , and are achievable projects , and it would be a tragedy if er , if they were , if , if we failed to achieve them because of er , a kind of a bureaucratic dotted line which say you ca n't have the money because you 're the wrong side of the line . |
| 16 | They say you ca n't teach an old dog new tricks , but I 'm living proof . |
| 17 | Some people say you can actually taste the clover in it . |
| 18 | They say you can still see a gap in the treeline where the Hurricane shaved the tops off what would then have been saplings . |
| 19 | ‘ We say we ca n't keep an eye on them all the time , but the girls are under strict control . ’ |
| 20 | Drinkers at Peter Kavanagh 's pub in Egerton Street , Toxteth , Liverpool , say they ca n't tell the difference between Harry and Johnny . |
| 21 | They say they ca n't discuss the case until the inquest is over . |
| 22 | Councillors say they ca n't afford the repairs which would cost three million pounds a year . |
| 23 | The people of both villages say they 'll also remember the 2 men who sacrificed their lives yesterday . |
| 24 | Yet even the cooperative farmers say they 'll now support the strike . |
| 25 | Factory bonuses have been replaced by compulsory pay deductions to buy government bonds , and many enterprises say they can not buy the bonds because they no longer have any cash . |
| 26 | Association chief executive Frank Clark said : ‘ We say we wo n't give in to the IRA and yet the police say they can not guarantee the safety of a manager at a football match . ’ |
| 27 | If you try and fudge it and set up three or four , say they can all discuss the same thing , you are building in the ability for major conflicts . |
| 28 | One possible pointer is that , when asked , people say it will not rise a lot . |
| 29 | But opponents say it will almost double the population of little Deadwood , sending property prices skyrocketing . |
| 30 | But academics at Oxford are outraged and say it can only mean a Jewish Messiah . |