Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [vb mod] [be] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she was gon na , aye trying to do her ironing because she said if she did n't get it done they 'd be all next week 's as well to do , and I said to Tracy what 's he doing all day ? |
| 2 | She had thought they 'd be more of a bottle . |
| 3 | On this occasion , however , his calm appeared to have been ruffled by Dr Dunstaple 's words and he replied with a note of impatience in his voice : " If any evidence were needed it would be enough to see what happens when a weak saline solution is injected into the veins of a patient in the condition of collapse . |
| 4 | I had n't thought he 'd be all that bright at the bogeyman stuff . ’ |
| 5 | After their dubious role in Love Thy Neighbour at Tottenham the previous week — which is now the subject of FA investigation — Arsenal must have known it would be another trying day , even before kick-off . |
| 6 | She might have known he would be less than helpful . |
| 7 | and that is also why , going back to a point earlier on , why I think erm counselling and alternative medicine , and so on , is marginalized it would be such a rock to the social order to actually acknowledge that people are in distress because it 's the social order that 's causing that distress . |
| 8 | And I think by the time she 'd finished it would be half price , she 'd walk out with the thing half price , and she 'd say , well you know , it 's just , they make up prices and you go to another shop and it would be the half price marked , and you go into another shop it would be , you know , |
| 9 | The incident , trivial in itself , of 20 November 1946 , culminated three days later in a terrible bombardment of Haiphong which was a prelude to pitched battles in Tonkin between the Vietminh forces and the French ; and although the usually quoted figure of 6,000 Vietnamese dead in Haiphong may be too high , the ease with which casualties of this order could be inflicted , with a French cruiser joining in at close range , suggested misleadingly that when French forces were fully engaged it would be such a one-sided contest that the Vietminh would learn the appropriate lesson . |
| 10 | Patrick landed across a rock , and lucky for him the ride was in to break his fall or it 's crippled he 'd be this minute . |
| 11 | It looks like some kind of mollusc , but no mollusc fits easily into this pattern of growth ; various people have suggested it might be some kind of snail , or perhaps a monoplacophoran ( see p. 76 ) . |