Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went to inspect and could see it was a half-plucked pheasant . |
| 2 | ‘ I knew there were only seconds to go and could feel my strength failing with each moment , and a drifting kind of sleep coming on me which whispered , ‘ Give up , Minch , give up … ’ and it was only the knowledge that I was of Callanish , the greatest of the sites , that kept me fighting those few more seconds . |
| 3 | I am also inclined to imagine that would say something like that . |
| 4 | Labour adopts a dogmatic approach to the rents-to-mortgages scheme , as it did to the right to buy and will abandon it in the same way . |
| 5 | Project co-ordinator Margaret Murray said : ‘ The lads wanted to do something to help and will put their skills to helping these unfortunate children . |
| 6 | Overall , the program is easy to use and can help you to be organised in your jobhunting . |
| 7 | He offers to mediate and will do anything to assist . ’ |
| 8 | Jamie wants him to succeed but will try his best to make him fail . |
| 9 | This could not exactly be a straight substitution : to attempt that would involve something like a category mistake . |
| 10 | This will allow John to expand and will give him the feeling that someone will listen to him . |
| 11 | Do n't expect to make a speculative fortune with old jewellery , but it is fun to collect and should hold its price , whereas you 'll be lucky to get half your money back on anything bought in a shop . |
| 12 | She has probably known what the doctor is going to say and may feel she has betrayed the family or patient and her relationship with them by not previously telling them the truth . |
| 13 | I nearly always know what people are going to say and can finish their sentences . |
| 14 | From love 's satiety we move to an indifference to feeling : ‘ They that have power to hurt and will do none ’ . |