Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [adv] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exclusive " Annie Thompson " design had only a small flap — that was adequate in normal circumstances — but near disaster in an emergency , when I could not even resort to the era of the " Flapper " in her cami-knickers , and go down one leg . |
| 2 | I could not even bayonet an effigy of Kaiser Bill convincingly . |
| 3 | I realised I could no longer pussyfoot around ! |
| 4 | If I could no longer eidetik effectively , had my status as apprentice and licentiate of the Brahmin of the Banal been removed at one fell stroke ? |
| 5 | I grew up pretty much as everybody else grows up and one day seven years ago I found myself saying to myself — I ca n't live where I want to — I ca n't go where I want to — I ca n't do what I want to — I ca n't even day what I want to . |
| 6 | I ca n't just sort of |
| 7 | I ca n't just sort of well I think |
| 8 | You know , I ca n't exactly sort of quote you word for word . |
| 9 | because I have n't seen any of your written work so I ca n't really sort of erm er dispense any advice yet er |
| 10 | Sorry I ca n't really sort of say I must admit I could n't really see why they should be like that really cos I mean it is a bit puzzling cos if they 've only just done anything , they 've only been tampering with this finger so |
| 11 | I I 'm using LocoScript on the Amstrad and it 's adequate and I can then just port ASCII text files across into WordPerfect . |
| 12 | yeah it might be , I do n't know , I think usually Roy does that but I think Dave 's doing it this year or something erm er that tends to be , that tended to be something that I had difficulty with as a student because again you could n't just sort of find one book that , that covered the lecture course |
| 13 | You could n't possibly part with him , there 'll never be another animal like him , and when your pony goes , there goes your childhood . |
| 14 | Well the theory is that you do n't , in metal type if you have a line of caps you ca n't just jamb another line right under the baseline because there has to be room for the ascenders , descenders . |
| 15 | You ca n't just sort of think think about North America get it in isolation , you got ta look basically as E er Euro P L C market place . |
| 16 | Not very erm easy to er when you , you ca n't just sort of er and Sue being you know , the type of person she is she 's erm only gon na do it er very enthusiastically , is n't |
| 17 | But you ca n't really sort of put your finger on any |
| 18 | So you ca n't actually sort of get a licence to have an all out blues party with ganja . |
| 19 | Where she is and what she 's doing , you would n't just sort of , take her off and |
| 20 | You would n't really sort of come out with things like that to your parents … you sort of do it less . |
| 21 | She 'll er make the most of that because she wo n't possibly money for erm |
| 22 | You wo n't better Maria Aitken as a Coward woman — tall , grand , always posing . |
| 23 | we ca n't just sort of |
| 24 | It 's nice to see , it 's like Christmas , when our kids are older we 'll see pop in and visit them , but we wo n't ever year rang . |
| 25 | We wo n't actually sale |
| 26 | German supermarkets have resisted the idea of the PVC eating robot , as they would much rather customers took discarded packaging home with them rather than have their premises swarming with robots . |
| 27 | He says he completely failed to understand the Palestinian revolution ( p. 3 ) , that he could never completely identity with the nation or their movement ( p. 90 ) , that he participated for fun ( p. 9 ) , that his record of what happened is inaccurate ( p. 19 ) , that writing itself is a lie ( p. 27 ) and memory unreliable ( p. 39 ) . |
| 28 | He would not willingly part with his leading actress , his Asshe heir : and as friendly Mrs Gracie had said , he could not now refuse Paul and herself permission to marry . |
| 29 | say Chris , it 's not that he ca n't though Madge , he just wo n't |
| 30 | Q E D , we seem to have proved that what happens all around us can not namely altruism and cooperation . |