Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] [adv] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I knew of no better , and Alan should 've known better because he 'd done a lot more removals than I had and he said Oh you 're alright Neal , do n't worry . |
| 2 | Well I should 've won anyway because I 've got sixes and fives . |
| 3 | The justification for this view is partly pragmatic ; as Cohen puts it , ‘ it would be a mistake to refrain from taking those explanatory steps which are open to us , just because we should prefer to go farther than our current knowledge permits ’ . |
| 4 | Consequently , she decided to walk northwards along the edge of the moor , safe in the knowledge that if the snow should begin to fall again before she found George , she only needed to make her way downwards and she would come across Hodge Beck , which she could follow southwards to safety . |
| 5 | It 's clear that neither Jane nor Grant want to split up but , in Jo 's view , they should stop living together if they want to save their relationship . |
| 6 | She should have gone away when she had the chance . |
| 7 | should have gone soon as they got out of work . |
| 8 | Cascarino should have done better when he shot weakly on the turn , but was unlucky two minutes later when he struck the bar with a superb volley . |
| 9 | To photograph the house for the news last night the cameraman must have stood just where he had stood himself , on the edge of the lawn with his back to the cedar tree . |
| 10 | ( His blood-pressure must have risen dangerously if he ever met anyone of the name of Hambly who also drank sherry ) . |
| 11 | ‘ I decided that if she had run away she must have gone somewhere where it would be very difficult to find her . |
| 12 | At Cabinets on 9 , 10 and 11 December he cautiously defended it on the ground that Hoare must have known more than they did , and defended also the continuation of Hoare 's holiday , although this by then had become more of a matter of nursing than of recreation , for he had fallen on the ice and broken his nose in two places . |
| 13 | Weasel Eyes looked as if he had n't moved but the other two hypocrites must have dined well for they were slouched , half-asleep , in their high-backed chairs . |
| 14 | It must have come loose after he had torn out his diary of Student Cross . |
| 15 | He wrote a poem about his friend Francis Thompson , and in it there are many echoes of his own sad youth in which he must have wondered often if his mind would flower too late for good . |
| 16 | In a purely crofting community this arrangement must have worked well as it was a pleasant blend of work and social intercourse . |
| 17 | But Birmingham must have won today cos they had equal top must have won I would have thought . |
| 18 | She must have changed radically since she came to France , a carefree young woman writing home enthusiastic letters about her life in the sun . |
| 19 | And Derek was sat waiting all that time , but they must have panicked then so they erm we 'll have to wait and see . |
| 20 | It was so essential that Lydia and Wickham should get married even though their chance of happiness was slim and Wickham was disliked , the marriage still had to take place because the alternative of public disgrace for Lydia and the rest of her family was so terrible . |
| 21 | For example , if it is thought that an error of law or fact or a breach of natural justice should justify quashing only if it can be said that but for the error or breach the decision would have been different , this should be built into the definition of the relevant ground of review and not dealt with as a matter of remedial discretion . |
| 22 | You are not obliged to tell anyone at school of your child 's HIV status , but you may choose to do so if you feel it is best for your child to have a trusted adult who knows the situation . |
| 23 | When peers are becoming absorbed by the new life-style that a baby brings , a couple may feel left behind if they do not embark on this too . |
| 24 | which you might want to incorporate anyway so you may not want to print off another version anyway |
| 25 | We might begin to think so if we reflected that in parlour games the rules never change , and then noticed that this year the most accomplished of our poets in their forties published , sixty years after Pound 's Lustra and Eliot 's Prufrock , an ambitious poem in the shape of fifteen interlinked pentameter sonnets . |
| 26 | I 'll stop moaning now because it 's going to be a great season . |
| 27 | And while the house market has ground to a halt , you 'll have to move quickly if you want to become a pub landlord . |
| 28 | Oh , how silly of her to take a holiday now ; she 'll have to return almost before she 's got there and she 'll be so tired . |
| 29 | ‘ You 'll have to wait now until she 's gone , ’ Lily said . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , you 'll have to stay here while I dash home and get my wellingtons … ’ |