Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a situation where two dissimilar languages with unequal status — for example , Standard English and French Creole — coexist in one community , the dynamic which evolves between them may in theory lead to any one of several different states . |
| 2 | Let's move on if I may to Dr. Nora Worcester calling from Cambridge . |
| 3 | I was just going to make a quick comment if I may on Oxfam , because I noticed that they 're down for the street collections and for the flag day , now next year 's their fiftieth anniversary , so I think it 's quite appropriate next year , but I do , my own view is , that we will get , we ought to get one comprehensive list of all these organisations , for both the street collections and the flag days , with an indication in the column of whether it 's flag day they 've gone for or a street collection , so that we can identify that sort of situation . |
| 4 | I must in honesty , wonder whether the smaller , reduced unitary |
| 5 | He might advise me to make a statement to the police which I should of course do under his guidance . |
| 6 | That 's what I mean , when I go to bed I should in theory . |
| 7 | The notion of difference of level between quite different programming languages can equally well be expressed within a single language : at a single level of language , say of the programming language LISP , one normally defines a function in terms of sub-functions , so that I might for example write a function WALK(x) ( where x ranges over walkers ) whose sub-functions ( to be executed in order ) might be some form of LIFT-RIGHT-LEG ; FLEX-RIGHT-FOOT ; and so on ( I am not suggesting that sequence would be even remotely plausible in fact ) . |
| 8 | he said I might to town today . |
| 9 | I might of course only gesture and say " John " , but unless my gesture means , or can be understood to mean , " the man over there " , or something akin to this , " John " will fail to communicate anything . |
| 10 | I know that 's why I 'm not , I 'm I might over Miss . |
| 11 | Nobody could keep up with all the chemists nowadays , for example ; though someone might from time to time attend enormous congresses of chemists , he or she would go to papers devoted to his or her special branch of the subject . |
| 12 | In the year following that first visit , I read and devoured everything I could about Rennes-le-Chateau . |
| 13 | He was also sure that I ought to mug up as much as I could about Italy . |
| 14 | I did anything I could at home when the children were small to make a bit of money . ’ |
| 15 | Well I could on Tuesday to get to the normal run . |
| 16 | In 1779 Boswell wrote : ‘ I was quite enchanted with Chester that I could with difficulty quit it . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I ca n't see myself doing any better with Sarah and that precious boy of has than I could with Riddle . ’ |
| 18 | I could with ease place my arm on the roof as I stood by one of them in the road . |
| 19 | Erm I could of course and will of course erm take advice as to whether the rent we 're now charging them is reasonable . |
| 20 | Well I did we we talked about this , you see Mary Anne , half way through the conversation er Neil went out of the room so that I could to Mary Ann and I said towards the end of my conversation , you know , Mary Ann you 're a very wise person , give me some advice I said , I told her about Neil not wanting no not doing well on the driving , although he can drive she said he does n't want to do it she said do n't hassle him so when he came downstairs I said I 've been talking to Mary Ann and she sends you her love and because , of course , you know , we 've got a grandson , you know she had a son , my |
| 21 | I suggested as gently as I could to Jean-Claude that he give Chaillot a ring . |
| 22 | Er but again y'know I could in theory provide some handouts for you which you could perhaps pick up at the end of the er of the lecture from the front or even have available in a general office for you , okay ? |
| 23 | So I could in fact use it to prove that there should be a singularity only if the universe was expanding fast enough to avoid collapsing again ( since only those Friedmann models were infinite in space ) . |
| 24 | With the playback that in fact erm as has said it showed me what in fact I was doing right and wrong , erm I 've been on television before once when I was running the London marathon but this time it was actually me and me alone in a work element and I could in fact see what I was doing and why I was doing it and understand in fact the corrections from the morning to in fact the afternoon presentation when I came back for the second one . |
| 25 | In fact I have gone further and said a " mixed " crew was , in my view , infinitely better than , any " national " crew , one of the reasons , possibly , for the high proportion of Commonwealth crews was my established policy of spreading my selection net as widely as I could in view of the poor cooperation of the Groups ; to this end I literally plagued the various HQs in London — the Aussies at Kodak House etc . |
| 26 | if I 'd only been there when he died , I 'd of hold his hands , blah , blah , oh God , poor lass |
| 27 | Anyway I 'd of beat you anyway . |
| 28 | I used to stagger off to work like a complete zombie until I decided to take a lesson from the Chinese . |
| 29 | And I used to dress er rabbits |
| 30 | I mean if somebody says I used to People finding grating people might say , Oh I find it grating but it does n't really mean anything does it ? |