Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may wish to leave your monthly transfer at the same amount ; or you may want to amend it in the light of an increase in the cost of living or changes in your expenditure plans . |
| 2 | You may need to adjust it at the centre on long pieces since the ends tend to pull rather tightly to start with . |
| 3 | The local enterprise companies in Scotland would want to consider the matter , although I doubt whether at this stage we should want to regard it as the responsibility of the LECs to give individual support or subsidy to people seeking such a qualification . |
| 4 | And erm I got down on my hands and knees I must 've done it for an hour |
| 5 | The reader should resist the temptation to think of the law as a closed set of rules and principles , and should strive to see it as a setting in which the business of politics and government is carried on . |
| 6 | but I should like to examine it for a little longer . |
| 7 | ‘ I should have heeded it as a warning , though , querida , ’ he rasped throatily . |
| 8 | Charity should have recognised it as the calm before the storm , but she did n't . |
| 9 | But then we should have got we we sh We should have done it on the way there , but we forget . |
| 10 | ‘ What you put into the business , ’ Daisy said , ‘ you should have treated it as a loan and let me pay you back the capital . |
| 11 | When we settled down we played some tremendous football and maybe should have sneaked it in the end . |
| 12 | Southend could and should have won it near the end when once again the Town defence got itself in a tangle … |
| 13 | Southend could and should have won it near the end when once again the Town defence got itself in a tangle … |
| 14 | His own fault , he should have left it to the river police who had more experience of that sort of thing , but he had felt responsible . |
| 15 | ‘ I saw you struggling with it ; you should have left it in the Range Rover — I would have lifted it out for you . ’ |
| 16 | Rich , the fact is , he should have put it in the |
| 17 | GUIL : But if he gave it to me there 's no reason why you should have had it in the first place , in which case I do n't see what all the fuss is about you not having it . |
| 18 | Knighton , now owner of Carlisle United , blamed the board for allowing Leeds to take the title , saying : ‘ United had money in the bank and should have spent it on a striker at Christmas . |
| 19 | He explained to Rain : ‘ He should have thrown it into the harbour but he brought it back here . |
| 20 | McCarrick put them ahead in the eighth minute and they should have settled it in the 67th when Muir had a penalty saved , but Rimmer made no mistake from the spot to level the scores in the 83rd minute . |
| 21 | Should have taken it in the second half , but they could n't find the net . |
| 22 | Should have slipped it in the erm in the oven . |
| 23 | He tells us — largely as he must have heard it from the horse 's mouth — the history of programmed machines , the development of McCarthy 's own interest in combining human common sense with the brute number-crunching force of early computers , and how this led to his own contributions , perhaps the best-known of which is the invention of LISP , now the standard programming language of artificial intelligence . |
| 24 | ‘ You must have done it for a good reason . |
| 25 | ‘ We also know that if Vechey committed suicide he must have done it in the early hours , just before dawn . |
| 26 | If she had thought she was showing him a stop-light , however , he must have seen it as a green one , for his arm suddenly tightened and there was a definite amorous gleam in his eye as he edged closer to her and breathed seductively , ‘ I like you so much , Fabia . ’ |
| 27 | She felt she must have seen it in a dream . |
| 28 | But an EastEnders spokesman reckons its a load of blarney : ‘ He must have said it as a joke . |
| 29 | You must have read it in a woman 's magazine . ’ |
| 30 | In washing her hands after breakfast she had taken off her wedding ring and must have left it on the side of the basin . |