Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] but [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , I , you may laugh but you see if you 're writing stories for a , for a young child then you 've got to be explicit , you 've got to be colourful and you 've got to talk in a basic language that that child will talk that like that at that age . |
| 2 | ‘ I know how you must feel but I had to be sure you were n't another journalist out for a story . ’ |
| 3 | Er And nothing should happen but we have n't heard , but also after that date we are high and dry again so I would quite like to keep as much in the kitty from the money we 've raised , for the admin course you know , the future of the admin course , as possible . |
| 4 | About half of the people detained under Immigration Act powers in general do not wish to challenge the decision that they should leave but they need help winding up their affairs here , contacting their friends and families and pressing the Home Office to process their cases quickly so that they do not have to spend unnecessarily long periods in prison . |
| 5 | Well might do but I think it needs to be put in writing you know like who 's is who 's what you know |
| 6 | I might do but I do n't |
| 7 | ‘ Surrey might disagree but I rate Wasim as the most valuable cricketer in the world . |
| 8 | I suppose some people might have but I think I did n't really want to face up to the fact that he might have been that man on the beach . ’ |
| 9 | You could do but I mean , I I the n the amount of money needed for completion sounds a lot but actually it 's probably I think two and a half two hundred and fifty thousand to complete . |
| 10 | He could swear but I had n't got to do . |
| 11 | And Les said I ca n't believe this he said , I he said if you 'd have been in business ten years that I could understand but he said to do it your first |
| 12 | I knew he could punch but I did n't know Razor could go down as quickly as that . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ We knew it could work but we needed a better location and a lot of word of mouth . ’ |
| 14 | I could have but I do n't want too much rubbish around . |
| 15 | Well last time I was in er Dublin I er went from the pub straight to the airport and someone stuck a bottle of whiskey in my pocket just as I was going through customs , I did n't believe it could happen but it happened in Ireland . |
| 16 | A half A half good and then you 'd have but we started off with nine twelfths so we 'd have three other twelfths and three twelfths is the same as ? |
| 17 | They said Lucy could walk but she needed trees for protection and food . |
| 18 | The mast I could manage but I did n't know there were different names for the parts of the sail — the head being at the top , the leech at the back and the luff by the mast . |
| 19 | ‘ If it 's the same this week , then there is no way I could play but I hope it will improve , ’ said Hall as a programme of intensive treatment was arranged . |
| 20 | ‘ A young man came along on a bicycle and asked me if he could help but I refused his offer . |
| 21 | Now Darwin got from this this idea that somehow sudden things are miraculous , are natural , erm but admittedly they may happen but I mean there is a miraculous element about sudden things , whereas things that are natural should happen gradually , and he retained this view in spite of changing his ideas about all sorts of other things , and let us now see why the gradualism was so important a component of his theory of evolution . |
| 22 | Slopes may lead but they do not break off or fall in the standard language . |
| 23 | She says she hoped things would improve but they did n't so she tried to start a new life . |
| 24 | not sure how this would work but I think there 's got to be a place for both Strach and rocky in the team . |
| 25 | It is not as highly structured a programme as microteaching would demand but it applies some microteaching principles in the emphasis placed on the elements of classroom interaction . |
| 26 | Well , it would depend but I mean there are various of nuisance from noise in the flats , or anywhere where you 've got a lot of people put together all living in a s fairly small area . |
| 27 | Can you just explain how that would work though 'cos we 're now erm , auditing by job , are n't we , and given I do n't know the audit timetable I ca n't visualise the effect this would have but it seems that one could be making a change 'cos a particular , a job 's been audited and it effects Q P1 , or something one month , and therefore you make changes to it and another job 's audited the second , another month , the second month and Q P1 needs changing again , and it , in terms of keeping our staff with us , it will be quite conf , I think it 's not terribly practical to keep having constant change . |
| 28 | If Mrs Baggley wanted to talk this one out Theodora would listen but she had no intention of inviting anything that might be just gossip . |
| 29 | Oh , her husband may chatter but I doubt if he gives her a blow by blow account of English activities in France . |
| 30 | I do n't know what August will bring but I do n't think so . |