Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] [modal v] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well you could n't have anybody more careful than me could you ? |
| 2 | In what ways can he do this and what should we give him to do ? |
| 3 | I 'm having a quick read through this and I 'll I 'll ask questions at the same time . |
| 4 | I know I 've been a long time on this but I 'll I think it 's nearly there . |
| 5 | Oh I could tell you a lot about this but I 'll I 'll just tell you a little bit that 's all . |
| 6 | We we tried to do as much as we could we drove from erm Colorado right the way round California up through Utah and stuff and so it is some parts of the desert are very boring . |
| 7 | now erm as well as much as she could she was never in the house and the day that he died she did n't get there on time |
| 8 | Power is so seductively close that it is easy to forget that in British politics the winner takes all , or to believe that this time it all will come right and they can themselves grasp power without conceding any . |
| 9 | definitely look into that cos it could you know it it 'd be a bit annoying if I was five hundred pounds a thousand pounds short at the end of the day |
| 10 | It really is I mean I I still feel guilty and it might sound daft to you , but I still feel guilty and what would my have done about I was down in London a few weeks ago for a meeting and I was coming back on the sleeper and I got the train to Euston and erm I came out at the wrong spot , so I had to walk out of Euston Underground and then round to go to Euston Station rather than going through |
| 11 | Okay well that was exciting was n't I really enjoyed that and what can we do next ? shall I ? |
| 12 | You know , hardly get a go-round in the in the Dictionary of Quotations but at least you got the person there which is right , but in actual fact , how I might have treated that and I might what might have grabbed me a little bit more would have been the story which I would be looking for , I 'd be looking for my journalist to turn that into and therefore you might as well try and do it for us , because journalists like , like count on your labour , as I |
| 13 | Can this just develop he 's 31 and what can he do to keep it away ? |
| 14 | and I remember one particular February , it will always stand out in my mind because er , it 's a fairly long walk done to the factory from , from here and every day after the midday meal , when I set out to walk down there as quick as I could it had been cloudy since , it was raining , every day without fail I used to get to work soaked , first |
| 15 | To the stone wall by run as fast as I could one one but Lindy did not mind . |
| 16 | ME : ‘ But , I always said it was a possibility — I did warn you — I could n't be more sorry but what can I do … ? ’ |
| 17 | around it , you know , and keep it intact but we 'll we 'll try it . |
| 18 | There is no way that any party , there is no way that the Liberal party can say to the Labour party or to anyone else , well we 'll support you , we think you 're getting in a mess but it 's your problem , you can carry it because that roughly is what they actually said and if it does go wrong , as it is sure that it will I am quite sure that it will be quite wrong to blame the Labour party entirely for that process , because it wo n't be entirely their fault . |
| 19 | Was there anything at all that I could it with ? |
| 20 | I go one two three four five six seven eight ten twelve fourteen sixteen and I 'll I 'll think this graph 's rubbish , oh I 've got the scales wrong . |
| 21 | And when the girl came with them I says I think I 'll take them all if you can them . |
| 22 | Yeah brilliant and what would you do with the first one ? |
| 23 | It 's terrible but what can you do ? |
| 24 | and she said you know , use as many as you can which which we have done and a lot of blank spaces on them ! |
| 25 | So is that because they could they wo n't take on any more ? |
| 26 | And yet , despising her , Luke could n't resist her any more than she could him — but she alone had love to justify the weakness . |
| 27 | So that 's it just go along the bottom one two three four five six okay , And then you wo n't move those and what can you do there ? |
| 28 | We were sharing it out between four so we got we we always say a quarter I think I think it 's a good idea the way the Americans say a fourth cos you can it ties it up with the four shared out between four people . |
| 29 | ‘ The day when I attached less importance to ( my stepdaughter ) liking me than to her respecting me , I began to treat her more as I would my own child . ’ |
| 30 | Wo n't get drunk or owt will you ? |