Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing that would lead me to inform your firm of her passing . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Nothing that would interest you . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't believe Craig would be involved in anything illegal , certainly nothing that would harm your prospects , Spencer . ’ |
| 4 | Do nothing that may give it a bad name . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're quite certain you said nothing that might make him suspect ? ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There is nothing that will make you a better surfer . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Fortunately , and by pure chance , I had said nothing that could lead her to assume that we thought that she was travelling with them — as arranged . ’ |
| 10 | When the markets go against you there is nothing that can stop it until the market adjusts . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ And nothing that can do him any good , either . ’ |
| 12 | There were one or two things that may concern them ( the scratchy sound of the orchestra for one ) , though nothing that should deter them from tuning in , for the singing was generally fine , with particularly good contributions from the basses ( Michael George and Peter Harvey ) , the soprano Nancy Argenta , the tenor Andrew Murgatroyd , the ‘ cantor ’ Nicholas Robertson and the choir itself , here expanded , of course , to The Twenty . |
| 13 | I 'm so self reliant that I if I was going o do anything it 'd have to be me that would do it , for the simple reason I could n't trust anybody else , not in that particular thing anyway . |
| 14 | he says , look er , he says , cos I for somebody he said if I could , if he knew somebody that could take me down he says I would leave the mini for ya |
| 15 | The loaches regard the bogwood cave as being theirs and will protect it against all possible intruders . |
| 16 | Is not that the most open admission yet that , despite the honeyed words of the Secretary of State for Scotland , he has done nothing , is doing nothing and will do nothing to intervene in any way to help to save the Ravenscraig plant ? |
| 17 | It occurred to me that I should perhaps wait for my daughter Sophie outside her school , to make sure she understood that I had not abandoned her , had merely left Lou for a man who loved me and would make me happy ; that things would presently calm down , and as soon as Hugo and I had sorted things out a little and established our new home she could join us . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | An icy wind was blowing , but the moment Modi saw me he came and said , quite casually , as if referring to something he did n't need in the least : ‘ Look here , I 'll sell you my overcoat , it 's much too big for me and should fit you nicely . ’ ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm sick to death of looking over my shoulder every time I come here , wondering and dreading if someone who knows me has seen me and can guess what I 'm coming here for ! ’ |
| 21 | Service firms produce service products , but manufacturing firms also produce them and may sell them in connection with their goods . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Throughout this chapter we assume that individuals know what motivates them and can isolate their goals and discuss them separately . |
| 24 | The children will appreciate them and can handle them without too much supervision . |
| 25 | The only ones who do n't are those who do n't want to like Philip Larkin , and there is a sense in which poems have — probably since I started writing — have been lifted off the page much more in the absolutely literal sense , that people are used to hearing them and can read them afterwards . |
| 26 | He knew nearly every one , and where his memory faltered , his sennachie behind him knew them and could prompt him . |
| 27 | We will turn this responsibility over to them and will give our attention to prayer and the ministry of the word . ’ |
| 28 | It is also what your collection people , sales people , delivery people and the grapevine tell you or should tell you about your customers . |
| 29 | I am going to say something about you that may shock you . |
| 30 | I 'll slap a warrant on you that will stop everything . |