Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [modal v] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | tie me up , tie me down should cohabitees get wed ? |
| 2 | I probably will Mick , cos I do n't |
| 3 | I certainly would Jeff , I could n't agree more |
| 4 | I certainly will Peter , and erm looking forward to it . |
| 5 | I certainly will Lord Mayor |
| 6 | I certainly can James and I 'll bring in my private surgical unit and freeze it off . |
| 7 | She probably will Margaret . |
| 8 | And then , as you walk up , you really should sort of almost end in the ideal place and then having lined up the shot , put it through like that . |
| 9 | Even as Pope attacks the gaudiness of Timon 's villa in ‘ Epistle to Burlington ’ , he is able to praise the alternative : ‘ Who then shall grace , or who improve the Soil ? / Who plants like BATHURST , or who builds like BOYLE ’ [ Pope , 3:2 , 154 ] . |
| 10 | Geoffrey Leech has used the Gricean Co-operative Principle and his own politeness maxims ( Leech 1983 ) as an insight into the characters and relationships in Shaw 's You Never Can Tell ( Leech 1992 ) , and Mick Short ( 1989 ) has used discourse analysis to elucidate the role-reversal in Pinter 's short sketch , " Trouble in the Works " . |
| 11 | If you get the limited edition of Let's Knife , you too can Singalongaknife with the free karaoke CD : I am a sweet little cat/ and I dance on a flying saucer … |
| 12 | We really should sort of take him to football , do n't you ? |
| 13 | The initial allocation of system design responsibility was negotiated between the four aircraft companies , Deutsch Aerospace , British Aerospace , Carsa and Allenia and against the background of an M O U which said we must share the technology on this project between the four nations and in a particular way which ensures that each of the nations has got access to all the high technology aspects of the project er therefore the individual companies identified those areas of the project , were they felt they either could lead best or wish to lead and for the United Kingdom British Aerospace erm identified the avionics system integration as the major complex task that they would take responsibility for . |
| 14 | What then shall man do in this state ? |
| 15 | Those aware that in May 1989 Sotheby 's New York sold for $67 million a small group of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings inherited and collected by Ortiz-Patiño and once displayed in his house in Switzerland ( notable among the eight paintings offered at the time was Gauguin 's ‘ Mata Mua ’ , a Tahitian composition that sold for over $24 million to its former co-owner , Baron Thyssen , having been jointly purchased by Ortiz-Patiño and Thyssen only five years before at Sotheby 's New York for $3.85 million ) , may ask themselves how will Jaime Ortiz-Patiño furnish and decorate his London flat ? |
| 16 | What else should Jerome think ? ’ |
| 17 | What else can parents do ? |
| 18 | What else can love do ? |
| 19 | Somehow irreverent … and yet , what else could people do but follow the prescribed pattern , listen to the lectures , try to hide their fear and act normally . |
| 20 | ‘ What else could Luke do ? ’ |
| 21 | Into this imaginary world of people unable to learn from their market experience let us now introduce a group of outsiders who are themselves neither would-by sellers nor would-be buyers , but who are able to perceive opportunities for entrepreneurial profits ; that is , they are able to see where a good can be sold at a price higher than that for which it can be bought . |