Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [modal v] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has since , of course , achieved a political status by which presumably I ought now to judge him , but as a junior voice in a senior assembly I could not resist the conclusion that he was a little too forthcoming , particularly when on one occasion he outraged me by a suggestion that if a common waiting-list was established , consolidating both private and NHS priorities , the NHS patients should have pride of place before private patients came into the reckoning . |
| 2 | Presumably I can also write to John Gummer saying is dead good . |
| 3 | Afterwards Jared Tunstall had said to her mama , ‘ It was a question of a little hustler meeting a big one , and if it were n't that he has hurt Sally-Anne so badly I could almost admire the swine for his gall . |
| 4 | Well it 's getting there , slowly I 'll just do it . |
| 5 | I had often rehearsed the choice phrases which I would use on this very occasion but the sight of the animal restrained me ; if he had come to consult me professionally I could hardly start pitching into him right away . |
| 6 | Er right I 'll just leave you there for a moment and put that back up there . |
| 7 | Right I 'll just explain quickly what it is then . |
| 8 | Oh thanks very much , right I 'll just go and get the paper |
| 9 | Right I 'll just make a note of that . |
| 10 | Right I 'll just draw it up a little bit tighter , is that tighter for you ? |
| 11 | Right I 'll just get that . |
| 12 | Right I 'll just put national account execs , key account execs , right okay |
| 13 | Erm right I 'll just write this down . |
| 14 | Right I 'll just see who 's looking smart to start . |
| 15 | I did n't go till about half ten ah no cos I had a few letters and stuff to write first and I thought right I 'll just take me time and , cos I wanted to I did n't wan na go faster than you know than I should , I should have done sort of thing cos I wanted to time it properly . |
| 16 | Right I 'll just mark it here . |
| 17 | Right I will now start to go through the pages . |
| 18 | This is three elements out of about nine or ten , now if they could be persuaded that if people phoned us up and said blah blah blah I want to learn this we could say well Telford will let you do this one unit of the course , they learn the one unit of the course , they say right I 'd now like to learn about let's say photography and we find out that Queen Margaret 's College in their course have an element on photography so we point the student in that direction and then they do this hold on a second |
| 19 | Luckily I could still ride the bike . |
| 20 | Where Emily had learned to thieve so skilfully I 'll never know — perhaps she 'd taught herself — but it was the niftiest piece of pilfering I 'd ever witnessed . |
| 21 | So altogether I 'd still count three that way . |
| 22 | Well I 'd rather I 'd rather buy something and I no point buying her jumpers , I think she 's got jumpers ha so |
| 23 | On North went : ‘ I 'm really worried because I have the only copy and it 's in my safe , and I could cross the street tomorrow and get run over by a truck and so no-one would ever know . |
| 24 | Oddly enough I may never have had an operational tour had it not been for one of these fellow travellers . |
| 25 | Only I would much prefer for us to stay here … ’ |
| 26 | I know then there is no one but me — only I can possibly stop the fountain of blood and minced flesh which my sister will become in those flashing , fluttering blades . |
| 27 | And if you said , well I can only I can only achieve seventy-five percent of what was in my plan one week , then you say well , what was I doing wrong ? |
| 28 | In order to reassure himself , he might question the stranger about things from my own past , recalling occasions which only I could possibly remember and comparing his answers with those that I would be likely to give . |
| 29 | I was a marvellous wife and he was proud of me , he did n't care what I did — I could become Lord Mayor of London for all he cared — only I must never leave him . |
| 30 | Walking alone I would never have made it . |