Example sentences of "[det] [vb mod] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was still trying to cope with what she was beginning to realise was her over-reaction , though she could n't have said quite why she should feel so alarmed , when he told her coolly , ‘ You misunderstand me , Miss Everett , ’ and was on his feet too as , looking arrogantly down at her , he stated bluntly , ‘ Should I ever be so lucky as you suggest , then , be sure of it , I 'd throw away my rabbit 's foot , ’ and having forthrightly left her under no illusion but that should he ever get saddled with her then he would consider his luck had run out , he went on toughly , ‘ I already know the answer , but , for the record , I want to hear it from you — are you just playing around with Travis for the pure hell of it — or , ’ his voice had taken on a grim edge , ‘ are you in love with him ? ’ |
| 2 | And although other people were certainly present they seemed to have faded to some other level of reality , very far removed from herself and this bulky , swarthy man who was letting her know , without a word , not only that he had her , but that should he now refuse to open the trap and let her in she would plead with him to do so . |
| 3 | When setting up a rack system , the connections are nearly always made from the back , and if a wireless system is used this is fed into the preamp 's rear input , although the front panel input invariably overrides this should you ever require the use of a lead . |
| 4 | Only by doing this could we ever hope to work effectively with the government in the future . |
| 5 | Look Ralph erm if , if you do n't mind me saying can you remember if you do this could you just give me a ring and say it 's done , if not Sid come down in the morning . |
| 6 | The allusion to the famous novella in the Decameron ( 3 , 10 ) , in which ‘ to put the devil back in hell ’ was a euphemism for sexual intercourse by using which a hermit seduced a young novice , is given an application quite the reverse of Boccaccio 's warm-hearted celebration of the flesh : ‘ Yet this shall I ne'er know , but live in doubt/Till my bad angel fire my good one out . ’ |
| 7 | Er now did we get John back or we 've forgotten John now because he 's in a shop serving customers in Ripon and er great take away Indian there very very good take away Indian and they did ask me this would you please play this so hang on . |
| 8 | After much deliberation by the judges , the winners of the best-named team was ‘ Teenagers Under Stress ’ ( if any of you teenagers are reading this can you please ring in with your address so that we can send you your prizes ) and the winners of the best-dressed team were ‘ Five Prunes Named Joe ’ . |
| 9 | Well , I do n't believe , they are after sound and the difference , you know , I mean you sit like this can you still hear me ? |
| 10 | I 'll just tell you about this Can I just tell you about this just for a minute ? |
| 11 | whatever it is , deflate , and er guy come round , no problems , no problems with it , well I mean the head gasket 's gone and there 's a hole near the wing and bald tyre on it but mechanically it 's , this guy comes round to look at it , I mean he 's been driving it from Plymouth , he 's in the navy , up and down here , bloke comes round , yeah no problem , come on round mate , come and have a look at it , look round it , says yeah I like this can I just take it for a drive ? |
| 12 | But since , so jump upon this bloody question , you from the Polack wars , and you from England , are here arrived , give order that these bodies high on a stage be placed to the view ; and let me speak to the yet unknowing world how these things came about : so shall you hear of carnal , bloody and unnatural acts , of accidental judgments , casual slaughters , of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause , and , in this upshot , purposes mistook fallen on the inventors ' heads : all this can I truly deliver . |
| 13 | ‘ How much can we actually do ? ’ |
| 14 | In terms of I mean how much can you actually write in forty minutes ? |
| 15 | So how much can you really do yourself ? |
| 16 | Chairman before before we do that could I just make an observation on |
| 17 | Before you pass on that could I just ask one question , which is how far are B T with it ? |
| 18 | Which of these should you NOT cook from frozen ? |
| 19 | I said to the guy , how many of these could I actually walk out with ? |
| 20 | How many of these would you actually add to your tank ? |
| 21 | How many would you normally hear about ? |
| 22 | How many can you realistically hope to sell ? |
| 23 | My Lord , first of all can I just ask whether you could tell the jury something about the training of firearms officers ? |
| 24 | What more could you possibly ask ? |
| 25 | After all , what more could she possibly stand to lose ? |
| 26 | But what more could he reasonably expect of her ? |
| 27 | Not that I mean it to be a breathless race , but rather that I somehow do n't see life in an ordinary manner , not even this sere and monotonous existence in Africa ; granted , it browns me off sometimes , but I do pretty well on the whole ; and if I can still enjoy this incredibly austere and disciplined life , how much more shall we not enjoy life together ? |
| 28 | Neither will you ever make old bones if you do n't take more care of yourself . |
| 29 | Neither can we yet predict what will happen to rainfall . |
| 30 | This chapter has argued that just as the study of style can not entirely rely on quantitative data , neither can it ultimately do without them . |