Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only may a campaign raise public awareness of the issues involved and win you new supporters , but the sheer relentlessness of pressure and eventual embarrassment at being seen to do nothing may also prompt parliament or Government to introduce new policies . |
| 2 | There are also two paths , d and e , in figure 13.7 which represent the other unspecified causes ; all variables in a model which have causal paths leading to them must also have arrows reminding us of the proportion unpredicted by the model . |
| 3 | well , well thank Mr very much , if you , if you could , I can accommodate Mr at any reasonable time tomorrow , erm , but although he may say he 's only got , he only wants to rest for a quarter of an hour d'your , as you gather from the interchange from the bench , that 's er , that will be the very minimum and I may well have questions to ask him , although I hope I 'd asked most of them to Mr , so , erm , but I 'm , I 'm I think for everybody 's convenience it , erm , unless he 's got a specific time he could deal with , we either start say at eleven thirty , when Mr can be here or at two , erm , but if he 's got some other clever idea I 'm perfectly prepared to entertain him , but er we ca n't leave this hanging around , I 've got ta write this and whichever way it goes we 've got ta look at it again , er and although I suppose I 'm not entirely unheard of and I disappear to the court of appeal next term it 's gon na make things extremely awkward to try and arrange anything else next term , cos I 've got two other judges to bear in mind as well as myself |
| 4 | Who knows if I may not have need of you by to-morrow ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I may not like London over much but I do know a bit about the place and one thing I know is that it 's big , bloody big . |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps I may now see Mrs Thorne ? ’ she asked , and Alida was forced to rise . |
| 7 | ‘ For good reasons which you may or may not understand , I desire to remain here in the wilderness away from those to whom I may inadvertently bring catastrophe . |
| 8 | Still on the subject of pets , I must n't forget Mrs. I found her under the millstone table outside the kitchen on a cold November evening . |
| 9 | I ca n't behave naturally because I must n't give offence . |
| 10 | That 's right , but , but you know that it 's only the , are only one of the major supermarket chains that gives money to organization and one of the organizations in Glasgow there was an article in the Scotsman or the Herald the other day and I must n't quote names because I can be wrong , but one of them and there were major s major stores selling food as well as actual food retailers cited , but only one of them will give food that 's past its sell-by date or surplus or whatever for one of the Glasgow charities for the homeless . |
| 11 | How your knowledge is in millimetres , no I must n't use millimetres ! |
| 12 | But I must n't breach trade secrets . |
| 13 | I must not give way to it , because it is so unlike me and quite causeless . |
| 14 | I must respectfully correct Peter Robinson 's Heroes article ( 27 February ) . |
| 15 | To this list I must now add Rano Raraku . |
| 16 | Perhaps my allegiance to the latter may in part be conditioned by the fact that grew up in its company , in which case I should similarly prefer Fritz Reiner 's 78s of the Shostakovich Sixth ( Columbia , 6/37 ) , which I also bought as a schoolboy . |
| 17 | ‘ I should rather keep company with Mrs Frere . |
| 18 | If I want nothing but to prepare the best Chinese meal I can manage then I should just follow John 's instructions . |
| 19 | I should also itemise claims which were made under two heads which have been satisfied by interim payment . |
| 20 | It is unkind — perhaps I should not mince words — it is cruel to keep albino fish under bright lights ; with a fish like the Oscar , often kept in a tank with no shade to escape into , this detail is particularly important . |
| 21 | And I should n't leave Lothian until I had killed every Norman I could find , and all the families who were supporting them . |
| 22 | I should n't make jokes . |
| 23 | And then I should n't pay tax |
| 24 | ‘ And I should n't tell Auntie Lou it was Hepzibah . |
| 25 | ‘ I should n't tell Mr Evans you saw the calf born , ’ Carrie said . |
| 26 | I should n't think Edouard wants any further investment just now — but if he did , darling , if you have , you know , a little pin money , then , you could n't be better advised than to- ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I should n't think Mum would let you go out with Edward again if she knew what you get up to , ’ Paula said carelessly . |
| 28 | With and Malcolm not really firing for Derbyshire , I should n't think Lawrence would be a virtual certainty for the winter team . |
| 29 | I should n't think Helen would want to get married again . |
| 30 | ‘ I should n't think Viola could have got up there , ’ said Greg . |