Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] with a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This discussion should include other professionals in the multidisciplinary team and may need to start with a recognition of their own feelings , before meeting with the old person concerned . |
| 2 | A few days later , on 8 June , the scheme was approved on two conditions : no unit was to be diverted from the essential defence of the British Isles ; and the new force must make do with a minimum of arms . |
| 3 | The two- or three- volume catalogue should appear to coincide with a survey exhibition of drawings from Chatsworth to be held at the British Museum this year . |
| 4 | The Minister should have started with an agreement on terms and conditions relating to employment protection and dealt with the other aspects afterwards . |
| 5 | Penrose 's theorem had shown that any collapsing star must end in a singularity ; the time-reversed argument showed that any Friedmann-like expanding universe must have begun with a singularity . |
| 6 | Yet thousands of men , fathers of families , must have lain with a prostitute at some time , and caught this disease . |
| 7 | Marlin had been as solicitous as an erring husband since the attack , calling her from his office every hour or so , and several times suggesting that she might want to talk with an analyst , or at very least with one of his many friends who 'd been assaulted or mugged on the streets of Manhattan . |
| 8 | Now when we came across that it was dealt with very quickly and the , er sparklers were removed , but , er you know , the potential danger there particularly with young children running around , might want to play with a sparkler , with thirty or fifty thousand of the things in the same room . |
| 9 | She felt that the interview was over , and yet his stillness held her still , and the solemnity of his regard filled her with a curious sense of freedom and enlargement , as though she enjoyed the very fashion of intimacy with him that he might have shared with a man and his peer , even with the prince himself . |
| 10 | I am bound to say that I do not believe that this debate has reached the level of fizz that one might have associated with a Bill that was to be fought doggedly tooth and nail by the Opposition . |
| 11 | Her poor mother was terrified she might start experimenting with a hammer herself when she got home . |
| 12 | The original may become contaminated with a computer " virus " . |
| 13 | I , I and you could 've done with a queen . |
| 14 | but erm I think she could 've done with a bit of company . |
| 15 | I 'd like to start with a vote . |
| 16 | and proposals and I 'd like to start with a vote just to find out what kind of hundred this is , do you have a driving licence ? , button one for yes and button two for no seventy two of this hundred have a driving licence which I think is some way above the National average , let me ask you do you have the use of a car or other vehicle whenever you want it ? , button one for yes and button two for no and of seventy two er licence holders , sixty three have the use of a car which again I think is some way over the National average , now what cars do you have ? , now let see what people are driving here there |
| 17 | She 'd like to change with a girl . |
| 18 | I showed her my book of poems , ‘ The Grimm Sisters ’ , and she asked if I 'd like to work with a choreographer on a ‘ dance piece ’ which would be a grown-up Christmas show with words and music and story , but mainly dance . |
| 19 | ‘ Meeting Venus ’ looks like it could have done with a bit of old fashioned fascism itself . |
| 20 | I could have done with a bit of support from you once in a while . |
| 21 | I could have done with a bit of weeping and gnashing of the old teeth . |
| 22 | Ironically she rarely used much make-up herself , but right now she could have done with a cover-up stick to hide the dark shadows beneath her eyes and some blusher to conceal at least a little of her pallor . |
| 23 | Her red suit was smart , but too bright a colour for her pale English pink and white skin , her brown hair could have done with a wash and her nails were ragged and bitten . |
| 24 | My time would only be impressive if clocked by sundial but I was pleased with it , though I could have done with a couple of gym sessions to get in shape . |
| 25 | ‘ You could have done with a couple of stitches here . |
| 26 | He could have done with a saw . |
| 27 | How they could have done with a win this afternoon . |
| 28 | ‘ I could have done with a hand . ’ |
| 29 | Here were many war-time refugees and exiles from every country in europe , with accents you could have cut with a cheese wire . |
| 30 | The doors were fastened with a padlock which a child of five could have picked with a paper clip . |