Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking at it , Nutty realized you could use the Smiths ' bath without the Smiths knowing . |
| 2 | William realised he would have to handle the unloading alone if the van did not arrive in the next few minutes . |
| 3 | This is particularly true of the company puff wanted because the chairman thinks he should run an advertisement which says no more than " we are jolly good fellows " . |
| 4 | Mickie then and there decided that if the opportunity arose he would team up with Raoul on future helicopter design . |
| 5 | Results will be given as quickly as possible , but some experts fear they could take up to a month if demand is high . |
| 6 | Hunting has now been banned , but experts fear it will take many years for their populations to recover . |
| 7 | Peering through the cobwebs at the stable clock , Umberto realized he should have been up an hour ago . |
| 8 | Discretion erring , our driver announced we would swap buses . |
| 9 | Well , the thing is , Pop Will Eat Itself used to come down to my place when I first had it and absolutely f— the place up . |
| 10 | At the end of the Gulf War , British Army authorities announced they would have to destroy all dogs which had been picked up and kept by British units in the war zone , but Dave and his colleagues decided they were n't going to let this cruel fate befall Des . |
| 11 | They were only upstaged by Tim Stockdale and Philip Heffer , who dressed as Show-Jumping ‘ Groupies ’ , with poor Franke Sloothaak proving he can run fast when he needs to . |
| 12 | You might be in here , harmless , visiting somebody , and before you could say Werewolves Unite they 'd have you on the operating table , jacking both legs off . |
| 13 | When they were swanning around looking pretty , our families were working their fingers to the bone for virtually nothing and now Miss High-and-Mighty thinks we should admire them . |
| 14 | Hawking thinks it can go either way but we will never know . |
| 15 | I parked the jeep under a tree and then , looking at my watch , I decided that as I had a couple of hours to spare I would take a walk across to the other bridge where I had noticed a café on our first day into Normandy . |
| 16 | When you find you have only a few hours to spare you can choose the best swim for that particular period . |
| 17 | ‘ If you 've got a few minutes to spare I would like to see these fields that have caused so much bother . ’ |
| 18 | After several minutes had passed without her finding a familiar landmark , Luce realised she must have gone wrong somewhere and tried to double back . |
| 19 | We welcome competition , a spokeswoman said , but local calls are still cheaper with us … and our size and expertise mean we can deliver the quality of service most customers expect . |
| 20 | We welcome competition , a spokeswoman said , but local calls are still cheaper with us … and our size and expertise mean we can deliver the quality of service most customers expect . |
| 21 | Our flexibility , specialist knowledge and contacts mean we can tailor make the exact holiday you want . |
| 22 | We might not even get as much coverage as Sunderland if they manage to get into the play-offs ( and with the way their luck goes they 'll get a play-off place by finishing tenth ) . |
| 23 | If partnerships find the case proven they should consider how the tensions towards fragmentation might be reduced and how they might come to be a better understanding of the responsibilities and common commitments which are essential in any decentralised organisation . |
| 24 | Home owners and charities say the rules could lead to administrative chaos , and local authorities fear they will have to pick up most of the tab . |
| 25 | Bus company operators insist they will lose custom if the plan to move bus stops from the High Row to Crown Street goes ahead . |
| 26 | He said if the second stage of his fight to prosecute Dr Howe failed he would take it to the European Court of Human Rights . |
| 27 | Its eyes can discern very small intervals of time ( it can respond to a falling hand in less than one hundredth of a second ) , and our clumsy attempts to kill it must appear ponderously slow , as if filmed in slow motion . |
| 28 | If interest is earned in a separate account from the cheque account I would expect automatic transfers to keep the cheque account at an agreed limit . |
| 29 | If there are just seven equally probable choices on average at any given point after 2 decision points we will have 72 paths , after 8 , 78 = 5,764,801 paths . |
| 30 | The hours mean I can collect the children from school and am with them in the school holidays . |