Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ought to write to her at some point . |
| 2 | It is he — another person , she told herself , I must think of him as another person . |
| 3 | I must speak to you about this . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I do not see why you should apologise to me in any way , it is I who behaved like a little monster . |
| 5 | I found it a bit odd that a sensible girl should write about them in that — that romantic way . ’ |
| 6 | But the pilot and your husband must come with us to another country . |
| 7 | We are directly presented with them in our ordinary experience , and so must start with them in any investigation into hidden and unknown causes . |
| 8 | John had claimed it was just possible to go backwards ( as it were ) , but you must talk to him about that . |
| 9 | You , or the person whose name we use must co-operate with us on any matter affecting this insurance . |
| 10 | You , or the person whose name we use must co-operate with us on any matter affecting this insurance . |
| 11 | You , or the person whose name we use must co-operate with us on any matter affecting this insurance . |
| 12 | You , or the person whose name we use must co-operate with us on any matter affecting this insurance . |
| 13 | The seller then becomes a trustee for the buyer and must account to him for any dividends he receives and vote in accordance with his instructions ( or appoint him as his proxy ) . |
| 14 | So important a part of our story does Macmillan 's visit to the north become that we must deal with it in some detail , and our main contemporary source for what happened is Macmillan 's own diary entries of the time for 12 and 13 May . |
| 15 | I think I should say to you at this point , that if you 're moving into these areas , you are moving into what I can , or , just totally contrary in fact to your policies , and directions , and er , not only that , I think we have difficulty sustaining . |
| 16 | take care love , and if I do n't see you , when I , I 'll speak to you before any way . |
| 17 | ‘ Look , man , ’ he said , ‘ I 'll divide with you on this . |
| 18 | I mean , if he did go off into the wilds of Anatolia , or somewhere remote like that — something might happen to him in some village , where he is n't known . ’ |
| 19 | He said that he might call on you at some other time . ’ |
| 20 | I thought perhaps she might come from something like that |
| 21 | ‘ I 'll talk to you for all the time we 're on this train . |
| 22 | I , I 'll talk to you about that later Emma actually . |
| 23 | I 'll talk to you about that |
| 24 | I 'll talk to you in half an hours time . |
| 25 | He 'll turn on me at any minute — tell me I do n't understand — it 's all my fault . |
| 26 | And if you were a a lecturer in politics and you went to see this play then you might think oh look oh and then you 'd start thinking and if you were a scientist you would think about it in another way and if you were an artist you 'd think about it in another way . |
| 27 | So I thought that maybe you could eat with us after all . ’ |
| 28 | Flavia could think of nothing at all to say . |
| 29 | But the cold had numbed her senses and all her ingenuity and she could think of nothing at all to do about that . |
| 30 | Taczek told me he could think of nothing from those times that would have made Mills any sort of target for a KGB assassin — or any other sort of assassin come to that . ’ |