Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [modal v] [be] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While she has /r/ in person where it should be in JC , she has pronounced /r/ at the end of mother , where Jamaicans usually do not pronounce it , and at the end of Jamaica , where historically it is absent : in this last case displaying the type of hypercorrection for which John F. Kennedy ( a speaker of the r-less Boston English ) was famous . |
| 2 | And now that they 've retired on half pension , they 're a damn sight better off than they would be in Sydney or Auckland , let alone London . ’ |
| 3 | Similarly , the range of interest rates charged on bank loans was much narrower than it would be in America or Britain . |
| 4 | He was going to win the British Open , so he 'd be at Augusta the next year ! |
| 5 | It looks like I 'll be in New York . ’ |
| 6 | I asked the Czech manager if they would be at Rutland Water in June and he said they would not be able to afford it . |
| 7 | CHAMPION Hurdler Royal Gait makes his long awaited return next week but trainer James Fanshawe is unsure if it will be in England or Ireland . |
| 8 | I woke up , but I told myself it could n't be you because you 'd be in Yorkshire — ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Because they will be in Nice long after you have gone away . |
| 10 | Oh I do n't know , I do n't know whether it 'll be like Mark and Jenny and perhaps never get round to it . |
| 11 | ‘ Where my future lies , whether it may be with Williams , Ferrari , or elsewhere , I really do n't know . |
| 12 | ‘ And I 've packed you a currant teacake for a ‘ biting on ’ , though you should be at Dudley afore dinnertime . ’ |
| 13 | The two are not being played in the First XV at the moment because they will not be available for the league matches , as they will be in Australia and Fiji with the national squad . |
| 14 | ‘ Because he is rich and he lives on a desert island like this when he could be in Paris … ’ |
| 15 | For example , while the /r/ of person is pronounced ( as it would be in JC ) [ P15 ] , the speaker has also pronounced /r/ in mother , where it is less usual for Jamaicans to pronounce it , and at the end of Jamaica , where it does not occur historically at all . |
| 16 | I asked her to prepare everything as it might be in America , so that you would feel at home . |
| 17 | When he introduced his national health service , a wonderful scheme , everything was free , it was paid of the taxes you know , as it should be as Beveridge envisaged you see ? |
| 18 | Dana Gillespie : ‘ DeFries always thought that in order for us to absorb musical culture as it should be from America , we should actually go and live in America , and it took quite a few months for it all to be organized . |
| 19 | She was the best horse at Ascot where she got disqualified and she was brilliant at Sandown when people said she would n't handle going much the same as it will be at York . ’ |
| 20 | Brusilov , a thrusting and optimistic commander , replied that he was as well placed to advance against Austria now as he would be in July . |