Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [modal v] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a scientist I can not believe it — but I saw it happen with my own eyes . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If you 'll be Confirmed in Faith I 'll never ask you to come to the church again . |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | I would like to think on Saturdays To Craven Cottage I will always go . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Yeah but if you do it above board I ca n't see |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | In which case I wo n't have a |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In that case I shall certainly hurry . ’ |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | ‘ If that were the case I 'd hardly have accepted your invitation , ’ she pointed out with some asperity . |
| 18 | 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 ! |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | My room was on the landward side of Chapuis , so in any case I could not have watched the schooner depart . |
| 21 | She said : ‘ The first time I heard of a case I could not believe it . |
| 22 | in case I could n't do the job |
| 23 | I pinned it to the corkboard with a red drawing pin and a light heart , and went upstairs again to change back into jodhpur boots to deal with the terrain and to pick up the map and the compass in case I could n't find the trail . |
| 24 | But in any case I can not marry your son . |
| 25 | I 'm making her kick , trying to get her to shake or swat them off , and the last thing I need at this point is for her to panic , in which case I can certainly kiss the whole blessed contract bye-bye . |
| 26 | ‘ In that case I can only express my gratitude . |
| 27 | ‘ In which case I will automatically take over sixty per cent of the assets . |
| 28 | ‘ In that case I will not keep you any longer than I can help . ’ |
| 29 | Usually I can only suggest possible methods of locating a partner for a large cichlid — unless I have just had a similar query from someone else , in which case I will happily operate a marriage bureau as long as both fishkeepers are agreeable . |
| 30 | Maybe the situation around will finally overcome us , I do n't know , and we shall feel incredibly troubled about our future : in that case I will still try to save , to help , to plan something else . |