Example sentences of "[indef pn] [modal v] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And if it is Number One for Christmas , it might become an anthem for 1992 and someone might actually think about it . |
| 2 | He quickly checked the tyres , but they were intact , and he wondered to himself why someone would simply stop in the middle of this countryside . |
| 3 | Someone would usually answer for me : ‘ Oh , he 's watching the birds again , Miss . ’ |
| 4 | And then , because we admired his beauty so much , someone would often say of him , as we were sizing up and judging the night 's array of talent , one of us would quietly say , The Price Is Right . |
| 5 | I find it hard to believe that someone can really care for me |
| 6 | Just occasionally somebody may even listen to the urban citizens whose city and whose fate is being discussed . |
| 7 | We 'd have thought we 'd nobody 'd ever listen to radio . |
| 8 | Nobody could reasonably dissent from this conclusion , Paley insists , yet that is just what the atheist , in effect , does when he contemplates the works of nature , for : every indication of contrivance , every manifestation of design , which existed in the watch , exists in the works of nature ; with the difference , on the side of nature , of being greater or more , and that in a degree which exceeds all computation . |
| 9 | If Richard drove a beaten-up car , it seemed that nobody could reasonably ask for anything more themselves . |
| 10 | Which accusation nobody could ever level at Jeffrey Bernard . |
| 11 | For example , nobody could possibly observe as a matter of fact that most ‘ able bodied young adults ’ are male , because half of them are female . |
| 12 | ‘ If only dad had n't lost his temper with Uncle Matt like that nobody would even think of it … ’ |
| 13 | I stayed with my mother 's parents in Eltham and I wrote to every theatre company and virtually every person in the world , but nobody would even look at me because I had n't done drama school . |
| 14 | But no , but nobody would ever think of putting it there anyway . |
| 15 | The situation is so bad that nobody would seriously want to be Iran 's president . |
| 16 | Nobody will ever know for sure how much Ken tried to rid himself of the camp , ‘ Carry On ’ image . |
| 17 | Believe me , nobody will ever hear of Hyde again . ’ |
| 18 | These are the books which it is nice to have which cost a lot to look after , but which nobody can ever look at because they are so valuable . |
| 19 | Yes , Vatican Two , has been very significant , but nobody can quite see at the moment which direction it 's going to leave us going in . |
| 20 | So I mean it goes down to must be something like equipment failure which is something that nobody can really allow for . |
| 21 | But nothing could ever compare to the delights of JTR 's landlady and accommodation … |
| 22 | It was foolishness of course , nothing could ever come of her infatuation for a man from another world , a world of comfort and security . |
| 23 | To actually meet a man she did n't find boring , a man who could make her feel , and to know that nothing could ever come of it ? |
| 24 | Nothing could ever come of it . |
| 25 | Perhaps he does go a little over the top with the rubato in the slow movement of K332 , but no-one could really object to such sincere intentions when they are delivered with such conviction and zest . |
| 26 | ( Every boy had a penknife , but none would ever dream of sticking it in anyone ) . |
| 27 | They stood their ground as we passed ; few people travel this way , and none would ever think of harming one of these gentle creatures . |
| 28 | Six lots of none will always come to the same as |
| 29 | The Copenhagen school had made a special point of emphasising that one ought never to think of quantum mechanical systems without also annexing to them the array of classical measuring instruments with which it was proposed to make the observations . |
| 30 | From its own customs and traditions the villagers could draw upon a strong sense of identity and morality which , looking back , one may easily mourn in a more impersonal , amoral and uncertain modern world . |