Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [modal v] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't believe Craig would be involved in anything illegal , certainly nothing that would harm your prospects , Spencer . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |
| 4 | I did not like the prospect of playing in front of all these people who were all older than me and would see my violin playing from a critical view , but I had come this far , and it would be stupid not to go through with the audition . |
| 5 | Certainly some of the productions that we are responsible for , as I have said , are controversial , and some of the public might not really want them and might dispute their validity , but I think what it is an indication of is the fact that people are short of money and have to make quite sure that they are getting the best value for what they are paying for and they ca n't afford to go to the theatre as regularly as they might have done in the past . |
| 6 | Throughout this chapter we assume that individuals know what motivates them and can isolate their goals and discuss them separately . |
| 7 | We will turn this responsibility over to them and will give our attention to prayer and the ministry of the word . ’ |
| 8 | Get out your grammar books and I will explain a few things to you that will help your conversation if you can get them into your so stupid heads . |
| 9 | If you are intending to take out a Woolwich mortgage a copy of this report will be provided to you and will accompany our formal mortgage offer . |
| 10 | This number will be personal to you and will remain your Driver Identity for as long as you are entitled to drive . |
| 11 | Though Spouse says Elspeth defies the idea that You Ca n't Take It With You and will join her ancestors wearing her best tweed and Celtic silver and clutching the two cut-glass decanters he has always coveted . |
| 12 | Ideally , the animal should make its response by manipulating the visual stimulus itself and should receive its reward from very close by . |
| 13 | Our last Letters are dated Hobart Town Feb. 9 up to which time his expedition had been eminently successful ; far more so than he could have anticipated ; the most liberal assistance had been rendered him by the Authorities , everything that could facilitate his views being cheerfully accorded : while nothing could exceed the kindness of Sir John and Lady Franklin in whose house he was then residing : in fact so much were they interested in his pursuits that upon more than one occasion they accompanied him in his exploring parties . |
| 14 | Pascoe was walking through their house , ten years before , going from room to room , first puzzled , then anxious , then searching for something that would explain her absence . |
| 15 | In her early days , looking for something that would make her consultancy just that little bit different , she chose to have an all-women agency . |
| 16 | Jack often thought he was n't quick enough to match Charlie 's easy repartee , but now he had thought of something that would make his friend smile . |
| 17 | While some British officials were interested in the Schuman Plan , the Labour Party rejected it as something that would limit its ability to strive for democratic Socialism in Britain ‘ and to apply the economic controls necessary to achieve it ’ . |
| 18 | What would be easier than withdrawing their overseas investments , something that would decimate our markets ? |
| 19 | I think he realises that living in the same house would be very hard for both of you , and might lead to something that would worry your tender conscience no end . |
| 20 | She looked wistfully up the companionway to the square of blue sky , but fought the urge to go up on deck , scared he might ask her to do something that would reveal her ignorance . |
| 21 | ‘ Too busy to do something that might benefit your mother ? ’ |
| 22 | He 'd play — yes , but he 'd play for them , for these stricken people ; he 'd play something they 'd know , something that might lift their hearts in their plight and strengthen them to defy their oppressors . |
| 23 | He was here on a fishing trip — trying to find out if Newman had told me something that might help his own investigations . ’ |
| 24 | Something that might save his life . |
| 25 | I think that the tour around the factory will be quick , but you may see something that will set your mental cogs turning again . |
| 26 | It 's different when a respected UK dealer makes substantiated claims for something that will affect his reputation for better or worse . |
| 27 | You may find something that will affect your decision . |
| 28 | ‘ Give me a minute and I 'll come up with something that will turn your face the same colour as your tie ! ’ |
| 29 | The first needs a strong local angle of interest to its community , the other something that can hold its own against all the other stories of the day . |
| 30 | One that 'll save our lives . |