Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | up on their behalf so the message got through it would have been nice if we 'd got ten at Talking Headlines this room takes ten comfortably um but Jack had done his homework he did a super presentation had everybody rolling around in |
| 2 | Appeals : If planning permission is refused , the person who applied for it can ask the Department of the Environment to reconsider the decision . |
| 3 | When Glenn thinks about what would have happened if he had needed the transplant now rather than two-and-a-half years ago he says he gets cold shivers . |
| 4 | He would chase down green horses and harness-break them , then Mr. Mendez would buy what he wanted and Russell and two White Mountain Apaches who rode for him would deliver the horses to Delgado 's or one of the other relay stations on the way south to Benson . |
| 5 | But let us think about what would have happened if the Allies had not retaliated to the indiscriminate bombing of this country and the dive bombing tactics of the Luftwaffe on refugees on the continent . |
| 6 | All through this Cruickshank has carefully sought not to be the outsider caught between what could have been the conflicting demands of minister-in-government and workers and patients in the field , ‘ by brining in the ministers and whoever and getting that shared view . |
| 7 | As their name may suggest , the rules provide for what may happen in the event of a clearing member " appearing to the Clearing House to be unable , or to be likely to become unable , to meet his obligations in respect of one or more Contracts " . |
| 8 | That settlement has now come through you 'll see the details in the papers er but we also want to have regard to the fact that the award for the and bridges has actually been reduced substantially by thousand pounds the total reduction in that area approach one point five million pounds . |
| 9 | When both cheetahs and gazelles reach the maximum running speed that they can ‘ afford ’ , in their own internal economies , the arms race between them will come to an end . |
| 10 | It might seem a bit academic to worry about what would happen when the universe collapses again , as it will not start to contract for at least another ten thousand million years . |
| 11 | As yet , no one was prepared to worry about what might happen in the distant future . |
| 12 | Even so , if the sequence is to come off it will have to be stage-managed to some extent : children who are young enough to believe in Santa Claus are not old enough to carry the action on their own without the help of an adult to keep things moving . |
| 13 | There are a number of University Scholarships as well and those interested in applying for them should inform the Faculty and write to the Secretary to the University . |
| 14 | It is only fair that tourism should not , like ivy , choke the Alps , since if the ‘ product ’ is not looked after it may slip well past its ‘ sell-by date ’ . |
| 15 | One need not mechanically check a large number of triangles to see that some of what holds of one will hold of all . |
| 16 | ‘ He looks like ye could blow him away tae , ’ Pol said . |
| 17 | Looks like his should carry a health warning : Loving this man can seriously affect your heart . |
| 18 | Looks like you 'll have a good summer 's backpacking ahead of you . |
| 19 | Looks like you 'll have to sort of like put it up for a day and then take it down for a week and put it back in again . |
| 20 | And it looks like you could do with more . |
| 21 | For those who put their faith in the existing Union , sovereignty lies with whoever can command a majority in the House of Commons . |
| 22 | I if you 're driving along you can throw out the balance of the car . |
| 23 | Before the posters could be distributed , the latter fired off a letter , claiming that , under the Representation of the People Act 1983 , it is illegal to incur expenses in order to promote a candidate without that candidate 's permission , and that ‘ if you proceed , you and anyone who joins with you may commit a criminal offence . ’ |
| 24 | But there 's a big difference in my view between the sort of regular abuse and assaults on staff in a Casualty Department and somebody walking into what should have been a locked ward on a children 's unit in a hospital at two o'clock in the morning . |
| 25 | Nice numbers that are easy to work with we can count out the pennies , count on our fingers , let you . |
| 26 | On the demise of the Open Software Foundation 's Architecture Neutral Distribution Format effort , Hewlett-Packard Co says ‘ there should be an ANDF technology out there , but says it will be happy to work with whoever can provide that solution , ‘ we 're not religious about that , ’ says HP UK 's workstation marketing manager , Richard Owen . |
| 27 | If she were asked where Fenna had come from she would have told a quite different story : the story of the arrival of Fenna . |
| 28 | If I knew where it had come from I would do it . |
| 29 | If the incorrect code was programmed in it would activate a canister of lethal nerve gas which was secreted in the ceiling directly above the door . |
| 30 | She spent most of her time weeping and wailing to whoever would listen to her — and she really did go ‘ Boo-hoo ! ’ exactly as it is written in the books . |