Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] it [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | do you think we should stand it on some gravel in the saucer there 's plenty of gravel |
| 2 | But whatever our idea may be we must put it into some perspective . |
| 3 | It had been impossible to think of the future since John 's abduction , but 17 April was only weeks away and I had been discussing with Chris and Nick how we might mark it in some way . |
| 4 | yeah he said oh Margaret wages have been took out me car he said I ge , I 'll get it at some point for you Margaret he said when I go at the bank but he said , yours was taken out Jack 's car |
| 5 | Now , at the sight of the river , Bigwig 's assurance was leaking again and unless he , Hazel , could restore it in some way , they were likely to be in for trouble . |
| 6 | ‘ I did n't think they 'd print it for some reason . |
| 7 | So , it 's no good er me looking up in some book Theresa 's dreams if I could decipher it like some kind of code in which every single thing in the laten in the manifest content represented something latent for what we 're trying to then kind of decode as in a code book because er that 's not valid , at least it 's not valid in general terms . |
| 8 | The second argument about the origins of the incest taboo is the one that relates to the major theme of this chapter and I shall consider it at some length . |
| 9 | And what 's even more sure is that he will do it in some style . |
| 10 | Eighties-style extravaganzas or not , one hopes the Nineties will see it in some form . |
| 11 | Although it is couched in the inscrutable language of international political agreements , you may find it of some value in your dealings with the Government ! |
| 12 | You can do it to some extent through the public sector , but one of the worrying things I find about the present situation with this growth of generations , the clamp down on building — less than a hundred thousand houses , I think , completed in the U K last year — my estimate is that we should be building about two hundred and fifty thousand . |
| 13 | We 're amazed that we can hear the people downstairs , cos we can hear them like , you know , if you hear somebody above you , walking here dong dong dong dong , above , you can hear it for some reason , below on the ground floor . |
| 14 | They 'll improve on it , or they might adapt it , see if they can change it in some way in that case , and they 'll act in a cohesive way . |