Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When that happens , to continue using it can be as bad as using no map at all . |
| 2 | And of course when it got heated it used to blow and it used to blow all the burning debris all over . |
| 3 | ‘ I should 've guessed she could n't keep a secret . |
| 4 | If you do n't want to go you 'll just have to say so . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Tulagai , if you do n't want to go you can always stay here and run caravans of supplies down to the escarpment camp . |
| 6 | Does he share their view that they work hard for their money , that they pay quite enough tax and national insurance and that they do not want to see what would be the worst disaster for such businesses in future — an increase in income tax and national insurance , as proposed by the Labour party ? |
| 7 | At many branch points there may be just two new tracks , while at others there may be more . |
| 8 | ‘ We failed to see there would come a point where additional leisure would become more stultifying than satisfying and that the mass of men would be incapable of absorbing any more , ’ wrote the Harvard sociologist , David Riesman . |
| 9 | Alright , I 'm prepared to wait depending you wo n't wait on a , a nine nine nine call , if it is |
| 10 | No , no , no , no apologies I just do n't want to know I 'll never forget her , but I 'll never wan na fucking see her again , I can guarantee you that . |
| 11 | Before the brigade of receptionists change shift they must ensure that all work has been processed as far as possible and that any messages or matters to be dealt with are brought to the attention of the evening shift . |
| 12 | ‘ Gradually I got to know what would work , it caught the mood , the shadows held up and the grain was soft , it was like a pastel painting . |
| 13 | out of the balcony and he starts singing I can see Keilly |
| 14 | As soon as our financial situation has eased we 'll certainly employ someone . |
| 15 | In the area of booking contracts a form of damages has developed which may enable the guest to obtain more than the value of the contract . |
| 16 | I am running a 1986 V8 County 90 which at 25,000 miles has no more than normal backlash in the transmission line , yet a most irritating noise has developed which can only be described as a clunk that occurs whenever I apply or lift off the throttle in any gear . |
| 17 | Once your program has STOPped you can investigate the values of the variables to find out why things happened the way they did . |
| 18 | In communications , too , the Soviet Union has realised it must modernise or die , whatever the risk . |
| 19 | A separator and trivet mean you can cook more than one thing at once and a Rise'n'Time indicator lets you time the cooking process by telling you when the right temperature is reached . |
| 20 | Many academic research projects take years to complete ; a scheme designed to support them must thus be future-proof — and this in a world where technology continues to mutate at an alarming rate . |
| 21 | mm and when she starts eating she can eat |
| 22 | Anyone who has heard it will declare that this is but of a piece with all the rest ! ’ |
| 23 | Clinton has to promise he will create jobs , even though he is firing thousands of civil servants and military personnel . |
| 24 | Once their condition has stabilised they may have to face a whole range of issues : new restrictions ; new sensations ; new embarrassments ; new lifestyles . |
| 25 | Put put three down from Halam if anybody else wants to go I 'll |
| 26 | I want to borrow , I want to borrow we can borrow your brain tomorrow Mandy . |
| 27 | The earth upon which God has placed us should be for us a special trust from one generation to another . |
| 28 | Once a vendor has consulted he may find himself under moral pressure from his employees to complete as soon as possible and hopefully re-establish certainty for them over their future . |
| 29 | However , ‘ I invite nobody into my soul ’ he declares , as if to banish the exhibitionist thought.44 And then if the search for suffering is allowed to eclipse the rest , we are back with Marmeladov squinnying into the bottom of his vodka jug ; whereas Stavrogin saying he wants to forgive himself might be Raskolnikov pondering retrospectively , selfcritically , on his admission of guilt at the police station . |
| 30 | In the present situation , the officers find themselves in a very difficult position , I can not imagine an officer saying no to a member and this is what has happened if we run out of money , then the very thing that we are seeking to do , in other words to implement the democratic process to allow people to come to meetings and speak will go by the way , and I can remember some time ago when I was a new member on here saying I would be prepared to attend property sub-committee briefings as a deputy and not be paid and I was very smartly brought up by a friend in the labour group who said that 's all right for you , you can afford it , but it 's not alright for some of us 'cause we can't. and the difficulty is if we run out of money and we either have to stop the allowances or we have to slash the allowances , yeah , knows who it was , we have to slash the allowances , then legitimately people will be able to say that the democratic process is being stifled because they are not going to be allowed to go to meetings , and therefore , I think that situations whereby a member attends to speak to a , an item , a specific item and then stays on for a double length meetings and claims double length allowances that sort of thing has got to be stopped , and also members attending just to nod approval at something that has happened that they 've been associated with , that should stop , if they want to come they should come at their own expense . |