Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I don' think er that women mind at all , I do n't think that that people in general really take that much notice of it , I mean I personally er have no objection or would not try and dissuade these gentlemen from wearing these things , but I personally would never wear one , and one of the reasons I would never wear one is apart from maybe two cases there you can always tell , and I think the thing is that when I would feel very uncomfortable walking down the street and everyo I 'd feel that everyone was there going wig , wig and the other thing is , there 's a young lady at the back there made a very valid point , er |
| 2 | That is , in acting on the best reasons I will also inevitably transcend reason and take a deliberate decision ( e.g. to buy a sliced loaf ) concerning some aspects of which reason is undetermined . |
| 3 | Depending on the size of the operations I would however recommend that the treasurer consider applying for registration as a charity . |
| 4 | The task of filling up the blanks I 'd rather leave to you . |
| 5 | There were a thousand possible combinations … one-four-six , one-four-seven … in twenty minutes I could perhaps try a hundred and fifty numbers . |
| 6 | At times I would also use one colour on top of another , dry , to obtain the required shade . |
| 7 | I mean there 's times I could just take Billy and just but then you have to think , no . |
| 8 | I can also , if I erm come across the same problem a few times I could hopefully work on that and then probably eradicate altogether . |
| 9 | In other words , I mean I 'm retired and I mean the point is that my erm experience goes back into the er into the dark ages I can almost say because in these days , you probably realise , I mean if anybody buys a video you do n't ask you do n't look for the book of instructions you ask about a five year old kiddy how to programme it ! |
| 10 | Even with the stethoscope in my ears I could still hear Beamish 's voice . |
| 11 | I felt a momentary regret for all the waves I would never ride , when I had only just learned how . |
| 12 | Think I 'll get myself , if I in er invested about forty quid in a new pair of er trainers I 'd fucking walk down Road in no time . |
| 13 | ‘ If I had n't replied to a client for five months I would almost expect a visit from them in response to a complaint ! ’ |
| 14 | During the summer months I can usually get away with leaving my boat conveniently tied up to the pier , but only if I am at home to keep an eye on the weather : in Shetland , even in summer , a gale can blow up from the south east , causing a swell to set into the voe . |
| 15 | Gentlemen I 'll just take one last question , Gordon |
| 16 | One afternoon , Mr Charles to his shame and regret had allowed himself to become inebriated in the company of two fellow guests — gentlemen I shall merely call Mr Smith and Mr Jones since they are likely to be still remembered in certain circles . |
| 17 | I 'm going to have to ap apologize er to all the speakers on the platform , who 've actually got prior commitments er pretty soon after the speeches I 'll just let Mick speak and then I 'm gon na have to close the meeting . |
| 18 | Having identified the most likely candidates I shall then consider the critical experimental evidence ( which again derives from studies of the role of contextual factors ) . |
| 19 | The Business is being purchased ( partly ) for its goodwill and it is reasonable for the Vendor to be asked ( in effect ) whether there are any significant risks which would adversely affect that goodwill by virtue of the sale . |
| 20 | So the problem was to come up with the right kind of songs which would still act as vehicles for the guitar — because , basically , the song itself is the most important thing . |
| 21 | Children played there instead of minding their animals which would then wander out on to planted fields . |
| 22 | Bernheim 's results suggested that he had found some substances which were good for tubercle bacilli , and , by applying the principle of competitive antagonism , he sought closely related compounds which would also be taken up by them but would block the pathway of the stimulants . |
| 23 | Lesion studies have their own problems of interpretation , while other methods which might conceivably be used to establish cerebral dominance , such as dichaptic stimulation and the dual-task technique , have not been validated nor widely adopted in experiments with large numbers of left handers . |
| 24 | While these are the most important tools for the grouping together of coins , there are other subsidiary methods which can sometimes help to define groups of coins . |
| 25 | ( a ) Have you discovered any methods which can now be used to investigate another text or author ? |
| 26 | This sort of personal experience adds a potent deterrent effect to more objective considerations which may already be swaying lenders against a particular group or class of potential customers . |
| 27 | Even though the individual shopper will often find some functional justification for his or her particular choice , as being especially practical , other reasons , some of which will be analysed in later chapters , may be adduced , relating to social rather than functional considerations which may more convincingly account for the majority of purchases . |
| 28 | There is no duty upon the Commissioner to have regard to these vague considerations which should therefore not be seen as a potential fetter on the Commissioner 's discretion . |
| 29 | Politically the post-1945 world has not been unified , but bi- polar , and organised round two superpowers which may just be describable as jumbo-sized nations , but certainly not as parts of an international state system of the 19th-century or pre-1939 type . |
| 30 | The hindbrain and midbrain structures , normally associated with relaying sensory information to the cortex , spontaneously generate signals which are responsible for the cortical activation , and are also indistinguishable from signals which would normally have been relayed from the eyes and ears . |