Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they decide to arrest me and throw me in gaol , my plans will have to be drastically altered … ’ |
| 2 | My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy , geography , natural history and naval architecture , navigation , commerce and agriculture , in order to give their children a right to study painting , poetry , music , architecture , statuary , tapestry and porcelain ’ . |
| 3 | At the beginning of your memoir is a quotation from a letter by John Adams to his wife : ‘ I must study politics and war , that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy . |
| 4 | But when you called I was teaching , and the rule when I am teaching is that one of my sons must answer the phone . |
| 5 | My interest here concerns how people who share my views should describe themselves . |
| 6 | ‘ They have not yet admitted that none of my proposals would force a patient to travel long distances for treatment against his or her will ; that no doctor will have any new financial incentive to refuse elderly patients on to his list . |
| 7 | I am confident that by increasing the responsibility and accountability of those working in the service , by increasing patient choice , and by ensuring appropriate rewards for those who deliver results , my proposals will lead to even better patient care for the people of Wales . |
| 8 | So I would anticipate that my proposals will receive favourable consideration from headquarters . |
| 9 | My appointment as team manager was a radical move on the board 's part and my policies must reflect their cavalier approach . |
| 10 | Pentecost is at hand and my knights should have their new robes . |
| 11 | The children were the first to greet me , their brown eyes looking up , asking silently and then audibly for presents , knowing that my cases must hold something for each of them , if only a ribbon or a sweet . |
| 12 | ‘ My superiors would have dismissed Graham 's allegations about my past as the ramblings of a broken man . |
| 13 | ‘ My superiors would like to see you , sir . |
| 14 | I climbed fast for fear my fingers might freeze to the rungs . |
| 15 | All my programmes would have been working and people would have seen what I was trying to do . " |
| 16 | My secrets will remain my secrets . |
| 17 | ‘ People assume my books will go to number one on the best-sellers list , ’ he declares . |
| 18 | ‘ People assume my books will go to number one on the best-sellers list , ’ he declares . |
| 19 | But my books will live . ’ |
| 20 | If I could get a home where my kids could grow up with daily fear and where I could also help my father , I could push this hell out of my mind and start afresh with my family . |
| 21 | I 'm not entirely sure that my listeners will understand what you 're talking about . |
| 22 | ‘ The work is obviously piling up , and there 's always the worry that my clients might get cheesed off and take their business elsewhere . |
| 23 | If there is more to be achieved in this forum , then I think my clients would like to fight for it because we we do believe that we would we do believe that logic and technical sense stands against the proposal that 's in the structure plan at the moment . |
| 24 | ‘ I work in sales and am sure none of my clients would take me seriously if I did n't turn up in a sharp suit . |
| 25 | That it has not proved possible to squeeze our resources further in order to accomplish this is cause for regret , but it is an aim which I am confident that all of my successors will seek to achieve . |
| 26 | In the cold light of day , my inhibitions would prevent these performances and without hypnotic effects of refreshing liquids I could not put together the necessary words , my own and those of Robert Service , in an intelligible manner . |
| 27 | My eyes would pop out . |
| 28 | I suppose my eyes must have been a little red . |
| 29 | When Caroline was home on holiday from her boarding school , my eyes used to light up when from my place in the choirstalls I saw her arrive at church . |
| 30 | It may be that we can seek help from what to some of my readers might seem an unlikely source . |