Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no one here who cares for me or will look out for me and I must shift for myself in everything which is not easy now I am big with child and not well as I was with my first-born . |
| 2 | They would have lists of all the people that had bought books from them or might have bought books from them in the past , categorized by where they live , the age of the person , the sex , the special interests , the past purchases , and then they would send out special books erm special letters , if they had a new doggie book coming out they might select all the ladies over fifty-five who had bought doggie books in the past . |
| 3 | Okay I that would have been okay in that particular case but you did come back to it as benefit , you say we have n't seen you for such a long time that was a not just look at your policies but to put a , a face to the name so I can become your point of reference |
| 4 | so I 'll have to think of someone that may need , need help in |
| 5 | And I reckon that he 's the sort of person who would turn into someone that would hit someo hit his his woman , because he takes her for granted enough as it is , and that , I reckon that 's how wife battering starts because the husband starts taking the woman for granted so much |
| 6 | The school , through knowing someone that could get things done , gained credit for being the focus of care , concern and action . |
| 7 | if someone that could put up with his sort of quite reservation |
| 8 | Delegates in this room from Apex may recognize me as someone that used to get up and say I was representing Apex Public Service and Management Branch . |
| 9 | Analytical cards are interfiled with the main cards , and constitute another 80 — 100,000 entries , which are all unique to ourselves and would require manual keyboarding by professional staff . |
| 10 | Nothing that would lead me to inform your firm of her passing . ’ |
| 11 | The shadow cabinet has agreed that while Labour must oppose the Government on various aspects of the treaty , it should do nothing that would lead to its fall . |
| 12 | It had to be a safe name , innocuous , nothing that would draw attention to the past . |
| 13 | Mariana did n't look up so the smile Trent gave her was a waste of time and he could n't think of anything else to say , or nothing that would make any difference . |
| 14 | There was to be no self-dramatisation and nothing that would set Amnesty International apart from the very people that it was seeking to protect from the same potential threat . |
| 15 | Nothing that would stand looking at too closely , of course , but it was like all the best illusions that she 'd ever seen , onstage or off because for all its contrivance , in the moment of perception it somehow transcended reality . |
| 16 | ‘ Nothing that would stand up in court . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Nothing that would interest you . |
| 18 | ‘ The poor schoolmaster must live his life in a glass cage and do nothing that would scandalise the parish ! ’ frank grumbled . |
| 19 | A speech in which the epochal scale of change in the East was acknowledged and yet also modified by President Bush 's innate caution , it was meant to include nothing that would alarm Mrs Thatcher . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't believe Craig would be involved in anything illegal , certainly nothing that would harm your prospects , Spencer . ’ |
| 21 | The BBFC aimed to ensure that British films were as bloodless as possible , contained no criticism of any foreign power and no attack on any established British institution such as the clergy or the judiciary , avoided all political , religious and social controversy , and did nothing that would risk causing offence or inflaming public opinion . |
| 22 | Francis could have been involved in something a bit shady but nothing that would have brought him within range of any violence . |
| 23 | Do nothing that may give it a bad name . |
| 24 | ‘ You 're quite certain you said nothing that might make him suspect ? ’ |
| 25 | The broom was there , sawdust , a pile of dirty pots , two kegs of ale , but nothing that might do for a skirt . |
| 26 | The food she ate made you grow too , so she was very careful to eat only good food and to take nothing that might harm her little baby . |
| 27 | There was nothing in natural knowledge that , in Pemble 's words , could ‘ set straight the wryed and distorted image of God in us ’ ; nothing that might assist the soul in achieving its sanctification . |
| 28 | Just glanced at them to make sure there was nothing — well , nothing that might cause offence , or trouble , ’ she finished lamely . |
| 29 | There is nothing that will make you a better surfer . ’ |
| 30 | The ensemble should , of course , not be too sexy , but polite , though not conciliatory — nothing that could suggest an inclination to join his mother in the kitchen to whip up a batch of fairy cakes . |