Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [be] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the first thing you must do is get a different message across . |
| 2 | I went past this woman 's door , her name was Emily , and it was like I was passing a huge vulva , so big it has a desk inside , and I decided that what I should do is make an actual photocopy of my dick , in fact two copies , one before coming , one after , and leave these , along with an asterisk memo , on her desk . ’ |
| 3 | NETRHA officers felt vulnerable on the point that the priority groups should have been getting an increased share of the regional budget . |
| 4 | Furious Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson argued it should have been called an incomplete pass and made his point forcibly after the Redskins ' 20-17 victory . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's something that should have been done a long time ago . |
| 6 | Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension . |
| 7 | I BELIEVE Dr Cox should have been given a long jail sentence . |
| 8 | BATTLE of the Atlantic veteran and Garston MP Eddie Loyden should have been given a greater role in the recent commemorations . |
| 9 | I do n't think she should have been given a custodial sentence , but a community service to make her think about what she 's done . |
| 10 | the United fans enjoyed this game … they should have been celebrating a bigger win too … |
| 11 | On the very bad day , I think we should have been offered an alternative source of water . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Prince Charles should have been running an organic farm , with special interests in the arts . |
| 13 | But one of the offices in the area must have been undergoing a thorough make-over , because along with the garbage and a tangled mess of strip aluminium and ceiling tiles he found a number of office throwouts that included a desk lamp with about five yards of trailing flex . |
| 14 | I mean I had no idea that by doing ‘ I left no ring with her ’ by Viola I was doing something that must have been heard a hundred times that day — I had no idea . |
| 15 | Greek Intelligence must have been taking a more than passing interest in the activities of our friend Andropulos over a long period , years I would think . |
| 16 | It must have been said a thousand times in angling literature that location is the key to success and in zander fishing this was never more so . |
| 17 | On going into the line for the first time , Jubert 's colonel gave the officers of his regiment instructions that must have been repeated a thousand times at Verdun : |
| 18 | It must have been mailed a few days ago , with a second class stamp . |
| 19 | ‘ Looking back , what he said is really strange , bearing in mind he must have been murdered a little while later . ’ |
| 20 | If these are not the product of a Piltdown-type hoax , then either there must have been a source of jade somewhere in Europe or else the axes must have been brought an unimaginable distance from the Far East , a journey comparable in its way to that of the monoliths of Stonehenge . |
| 21 | What I 'll do is get a little light run down then you can see |
| 22 | All they 'll do is put a local transfer erm , thing in . |
| 23 | It is a tenable hypothesis that Bayezid II did indeed set a pattern and that many of the later foundations involving a joint muderris/muftilik were made simply in imitation of his precedent , though their effect might have been to create an official muftilik where none had existed before or to upgrade an existing muftilik ( which latter may well have been Bayezid II's intention in Amasya and Istanbul ) . |
| 24 | We might even have had a decent election and the country might have been saved a good deal earlier , but everyone knows that that is how we got here . |
| 25 | But he might have been speaking a foreign language . |
| 26 | Until last week this latter option might have been considered a possible piece of government lunacy . |
| 27 | What I 'd do is keep a handy sledge-hammer in the boot ! ’ |
| 28 | Without his aid , Edward was bound to negotiate for peace with Scotland ; but the best he could do was to conclude a thirteen-year truce in 1323 . |
| 29 | She counted to ten as she had been taught when about to deliver a big speech , but when she tried to force some words of outrage from between her teeth her tongue clove to the roof of her mouth and the most she could do was make a small cry of protest deep in her throat . |
| 30 | The best the Company could do was to send a 25-year old clerk and a force of 560 men off to Arcot , the capital of the Carnatic . |