Example sentences of "and [pron] [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 well , well thank Mr very much , if you , if you could , I can accommodate Mr at any reasonable time tomorrow , erm , but although he may say he 's only got , he only wants to rest for a quarter of an hour d'your , as you gather from the interchange from the bench , that 's er , that will be the very minimum and I may well have questions to ask him , although I hope I 'd asked most of them to Mr , so , erm , but I 'm , I 'm I think for everybody 's convenience it , erm , unless he 's got a specific time he could deal with , we either start say at eleven thirty , when Mr can be here or at two , erm , but if he 's got some other clever idea I 'm perfectly prepared to entertain him , but er we ca n't leave this hanging around , I 've got ta write this and whichever way it goes we 've got ta look at it again , er and although I suppose I 'm not entirely unheard of and I disappear to the court of appeal next term it 's gon na make things extremely awkward to try and arrange anything else next term , cos I 've got two other judges to bear in mind as well as myself
2 you sit here , you sit still for a minute and eat , eat your sandwich and I 'll just put Joseph in the car oh what
3 And I 'll never forget Mr Dyance .
4 I would like to thank Tom Johnston , Councillor Pat Lally and Professor David Vines , who all left the Board during the year , for their contribution ; and I would again pay tribute to Lord Macfarlane .
5 And I would also draw attention to a particular consideration namely that between the outer boundary of the greenbelt in that corridor and the area of outstanding natural beauty of the Hills , there is very little distance .
6 And I would also support Mr Potters in the addition of the under-used term would I think be beneficial to the policy .
7 I erm , and I 'd rather take Caroline because I think it would be good for her to have
8 And I 'd rather have coffee than tea … ’
9 And I 'd rather use newspaper now rather than use use erm
10 From a Christian perspective , you and I will never face death .
11 Ted and I will never see eye to eye about his clients , whom he likes , respects and positively enjoys dragging over hills to bag stags , whereas I loathe these numbskulls who think killing is ‘ sport ’ .
12 I was sitting on a chair near the door , and I could just hear Greta Ross 's voice speaking on the phone .
13 ‘ Two nights ago my telephone rang , but very softly , and I could only hear whispers .
14 All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will .
15 ‘ I 've got a tiny head and I could never find hats to fit .
16 My wife and I could never see eye to eye on the business of living .
17 And I can also say sir , I think without fear of contradiction , that of the hundreds of enquiries that I have done , this is the only enquiry sir which will have la left a lasting impression .
18 I 've done various things on my computer today and I can successfully make ASCII files .
19 ‘ Nothing has changed since the revolution and I can only see things getting worse and worse .
20 To firm up their security against subsequent security interests created by the company and which would otherwise have priority , floating charges almost invariably contain a provision that restricts the right of the company to create charges that have priority to or rank equally with the floating charge ( called a negative pledge clause ) .
21 Will he remind any business man foolish enough to think that a Labour Government would be better for business of the myriad proposals which would prove the truth to be quite the opposite , which would make life far more difficult and which would especially energise union militancy which is at the bottom of some of the proposals ?
22 But their significance also needs to be grasped with respect to the operations of splitting , desire , fantasy , pleasure and paranoia which are deeply implicated in racist discourses , and which may inherently produce dualities and ambivalences in racialized encounters between selves and others .
23 While on sick leave , you must not work for another employer and should not engage in activities which your illness would normally prevent and which could therefore raise doubts about the nature of your illness .
24 This is what happens with tax exempt sources and by looking at a TESSA and assuming you pay the maximum each year which are those figures and assuming that the interest rate stays at seven and a half percent , it wo n't but it 's seven and a half percent at the moment , then this is what happens , at the end of the first year you 've put in your three thousand your interest at seven and a half percent is two twenty five and you would otherwise pay tax at fifty six at twenty five percent or twenty or forty which would be those figures , but you do n't .
25 ‘ Poor you — and you 'll probably get rheumatism sitting here , unless they all hurry up .
26 And you 'll always need leaders . ’
27 Many nurseries are adding species and Old varieties to their lists and you may well find shrub forms , ramblers and climbers all grouped under the one heading .
28 Drop it in and you can just put David on it .
29 And you can even buy imitations of handmade bricks with all the individuality of texture that makes them so attractive to use , but they are pricy .
30 Most insects have fairly predictable behaviour and you can often adjust sowing dates to avoid peak periods of egg-laying or migration , and deny colonising pests a favoured habitat by , for example , pinching out the soft tips of broad beans or applying a protective insecticide .
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