Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [modal v] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 To both Il Giornale dell'Arte and Christian Bernard I can only say : shame on you .
2 Er there 's mine needs a few bits and bobs I ca n't do it though cos I have n't got enough money .
3 As a scientist I can not believe it — but I saw it happen with my own eyes .
4 The only concession I could not get was leave to see him alone , but it 's plain I should have got nowhere with him even so .
5 If you 'll be Confirmed in Faith I 'll never ask you to come to the church again .
6 I 'd like to know more about it because having gone through it without any eventuality I 'd quite like to know what I missed !
7 I think if I 'd had er no teeth I would n't have been able to manage at all , or if I had
8 I was full to the gills of roasted cat , which is one of the reasons I ca n't stand the animals now .
9 I think he finally started thinking , for reasons I ca n't say , about whether or not he could actually leave the hospital , and he finally asked , and he realized that he could n't leave the hospital alive .
10 I don' think er that women mind at all , I do n't think that that people in general really take that much notice of it , I mean I personally er have no objection or would not try and dissuade these gentlemen from wearing these things , but I personally would never wear one , and one of the reasons I would never wear one is apart from maybe two cases there you can always tell , and I think the thing is that when I would feel very uncomfortable walking down the street and everyo I 'd feel that everyone was there going wig , wig and the other thing is , there 's a young lady at the back there made a very valid point , er
11 For a number of reasons I can not accept Mill 's answer to the question , ‘ What does it mean to say that something is white ? ’
12 I would consider using it only in particular circumstances ; for obvious reasons I will not predict what they might be .
13 The 13-goal marksman 's chances of being fit have improved since he started the treatment and his manager Ron Atkinson said : ‘ If he does make it and this machine has done the trick I 'll gladly pay out Pounds 25,000 myself to buy one . ’
14 From these accounts I could n't recognise the Tom Watt I thought I had known .
15 ‘ That 's illegal , ’ said Malpass , but as he was in the back of Armstrong I could n't see if he was serious or not .
16 I would like to think on Saturdays To Craven Cottage I will always go .
17 She supplies the book 's hasty conclusion after the death at Lydiard Constantine of Philip — a partial picture of one side of the Battersea Grammar School Edward : At this point the people of Abercorran House — even Jessie and Aurelius- and the dogs that stretched out in death like blessedness under the sun , and the pigeons that courted and were courted in the yard and on the roof , all suddenly retreat from me when I come to that Spring in memory ; a haze of ghostly , shimmering silver veils them ; without Philip they are as people in a story whose existence I can not prove .
18 Yeah but if you do it above board I ca n't see
19 ‘ In the 22 years I have sat on the North Eastern Co-op 's board I can not recall a year in which so many negative factors have combined .
20 In which case I wo n't have a
21 If this had been the case I may possibly have been offered some cosmetic surgery , but this wo n't happen because it 's a natural part of pregnancy .
22 So I thought well in case I ca n't get them anywhere else the market and he said well we 'll have one from here , twelve ninety nine .
23 Well in that case I would n't put him on er on a job that was made out on site but I would keep him in the
24 So the question is whether he still is the 5/6-th choice as striker for Leeds when he returns , in that case I 'll probably see him here in Bergen in the spring , on loan to Brann .
25 In that case I shall certainly hurry . ’
26 and he says no I , I reckon I had a word with our Margaret she said no it do n't matter , but if that 's gon na be the case I 'd rather give it to him back , I mean I 've got it
27 ‘ If that were the case I 'd hardly have accepted your invitation , ’ she pointed out with some asperity .
28 I was led into all these commitments in a very friendly and deferential spirit , and in a similar spirit of friendship and hospitality I was invited to numerous social engagements , from impressive lunch in honour of the Minister of Education to an invitation to a private home in Jaipur , where my kind host and hostess had gone to the trouble of preparing sandwiches , cake , chips ( without the fish ) and pudding , in case I should not like the Indian dishes served for the other guests !
29 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 .
30 My room was on the landward side of Chapuis , so in any case I could not have watched the schooner depart .
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