Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | You ought to shop him for the income tax then |
2 | Little is known about the effect of different care settings on the children 's education though the fact that many foster parents and residential staff have had limited educational opportunities themselves may influence them in the importance they attach to the children 's success in school . |
3 | ‘ I hope you wo n't be stuck in your bag of ‘ defending ’ the underground ; like the man said , let's make it for the hell of it . ’ |
4 | We have shown how group frequencies derived from experience with other molecules may be used to suggest assignments for particularly characteristic bands , and how the use of isotopes may assist us in the deduction of molecular structure and of the types of atoms involved in each mode . |
5 | If you have any other items you wish to raise at the meeting , please advise me beforehand so that I may include them on the agenda . |
6 | If we do not need all that DP equipment now we may need it in the future . |
7 | Accordingly , rather than declaring that question ( 4 ) in the Factortame case ( Case C 221/89 ) has become otiose , I propose that the court should answer it in the negative . |
8 | When I look at the Olympic fighters here I see several with good styles and professional potential who should make it to the top if they get with the right coaches . ’ |
9 | ‘ My dear officers , ’ said a rather breathless but still well modulated voice , ‘ of what am I accused that you should treat me like the nucleus of a civil rights demonstration ? |
10 | When my Cid saw that they who eat his bread were returned , he went down from the tower , and received them right well , and praised them for what they had done like good knights : howbeit he was full sorrowful for Alvar Salvadores that he should be in the hands of the Moors , but he trusted in God that he should deliver him on the morrow . |
11 | I think I should regard me with the contempt with which I myself regard the more vulgar visitors . ’ |
12 | I think BT should compensate us for the concern and inconvenience these mystery calls cause , perhaps by reducing bills for that quarter . |
13 | Whether these past difficulties should debar him from the presidency was , he said , an issue to be decided by the US people : " We 're putting this in your hands , you get to decide . " |
14 | I knew I should throw her to the patrol and make my own getaway , but she appealed to the chink in my armour . |
15 | It 's as though the superego suddenly stops functioning , though why I should describe it in the kind of shit jargon dreamed up by that Jewish prick Freud is beyond me . |
16 | Elisabeth Cook 's recent account of the ‘ Querelle des Bouffons ’ shows an extensive political dimension , which should alert us to the nature of associated rhetoric . |
17 | ( The very fact that the proposed ‘ Star Wars ’ defensive strategy of the United States involves computerised laser technology should alert us to the fact that such a defence has ominous offensive possibilities . ) |
18 | We have been more wary of challenging the transcultural verity of sexual categories , but in reality a minimum awareness of the evidence should alert us to the fact that though various cultures share general sexual forms , this does not mean that their content , inner structures and meanings are identical . |
19 | From a pedagogic point of view , the possibility of culture specificity should alert us to the fact that when we teach terms referring to discourse type and use them in discourse processing and production , we should not take for granted that each term has an exact translation equivalent . |
20 | This should alert us to the fact that the canons are incomplete records , and that they could even overlook matters of royal concern , like Guntram 's foundation of the monastery of St Marcel . |
21 | Regular grooming with a special fine flea comb should alert you to the presence of these troublesome parasites . |
22 | If we want to see the glory of God ( which no man can do in all its unmediated radiance , and live , Exod. 33:20 ) then we must seek it in the person of Jesus . |
23 | I felt I should include them in the list if only so that you could see the limited choice at present available . |
24 | If you do not like what happens at a school , you should discuss it with the headmaster , but bear in mind that teachers at a boarding school are acting much more in loco parentis than at a day school and may feel that very firm action is essential . |
25 | He must introduce them into the plane of his own discourse , but in such a way that this plane is not destroyed . |
26 | Thou shalt break them with the rod of iron , thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter 's vessel . |
27 | Or if this is the whim of some trouble-stirring witch , you must beat her to the ground and punish her . |
28 | Okay , and you 've done , you 've done that on one bit of the fraction , so you must do it on the top as well . |
29 | Now , I must welcome him at the door . |
30 | Tomorrow you should bring it to the shaman 's lodge and we 'll burn it with bird fat , honey and a strip of the dried skin of a wolf . |