Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [verb] [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although creeks are thought to be largely areas of non-deposition rather than areas of erosion , the scour of the tide along them may cause some lateral erosion and water draining at times of very high tides from areas behind the zone of creeks may plunge into the heads of the creeks and so cause a certain amount of headward erosion . |
| 2 | Police are warning that the chemicals are highly toxic and anyone who comes into contact with them should seek urgent medical attention . |
| 3 | I say it should be a nice evening , and I think to myself I may need all that wine . |
| 4 | There has been real rudeness on the part of poll tax Patten , if I may use that unparliamentary way of describing him , but everybody knows who I mean . |
| 5 | If I may take one more minute just to convey this when I was a child in South Africa and we demonstrated and the police would come you know , ready to fire ready to kill if necessary and you had to calculate how you can avoid that situation and then you try in your normal life after the demonstration to do something against the regime to organize people and so on , and then like a juggernaut the state comes and destroys all the work that you and others have done for years and you just see it as a child of what your parents and others had done . |
| 6 | Cos the other thing I was gon na do was to go into Lloyds , I must do that some time about this interest on that account cos I reckon it 's very low |
| 7 | But I must do one more piece of scientific work before we can marry . |
| 8 | I must do some real work today or at least this aft' . |
| 9 | ‘ I must admit that last month when you ran away , I thought , Uh — oh , here we go again , but I was wrong , Gilly . |
| 10 | And then next week I must order some more coal for but erm , I 've got ta go outside here so no good doing it for this week is it ? |
| 11 | ‘ I must ask that young woman to speak at one of my supper clubs . |
| 12 | Whatever the risk of shock to my more mathematically allergic readers I must write this celebrated equation just once : |
| 13 | Oh good well I must remember that next time it 's always good to know how to do these technical things . |
| 14 | I must get some fresh air . " |
| 15 | But I must learn some rudimentary Greek — starting from the alphabet onwards . |
| 16 | ‘ I should like some more custard . ’ |
| 17 | Personally I should find that cold comfort . |
| 18 | He said I should have more adequate protection than a burglar alarm . |
| 19 | I should add that any Man . |
| 20 | the both I T V and B B C , both did a lemon pudding yesterday , about the same , I might make one one day , it was easy recipe , new one |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , but perhaps he thought I might meet some wealthy man who would instantly fall in love with me and so relieve him of some of the responsibility , ’ she retorted , too angry to even think what she was saying , and then gave a derisive smile when she saw that he was half tempted to believe it . |
| 22 | At the other end of the animal kingdom , I might cite that well-loved dinosaur Iguanodon , now identified in Africa , Australia , Asia and Spitzbergen , besides its best-known English and Belgian haunts . |
| 23 | Indeed , if I used Tampax I might go hang-gliding this weekend . |
| 24 | Mr Colman if I might add that re- orientation has brought with it the need to change our pricing strategy and therefore rather than going package by package right through the whole thirty four , we 're actually trying initially on the engines to go in one bang to price everything on the engines and do it in the next few months . |
| 25 | I thought I might find some reasonable woman who would understand my case and accept me . ’ |
| 26 | I 'm going to change for dinner , then later on I might have one last bash at the brick wall . ’ |
| 27 | I might get some black gear |
| 28 | I 'll do that first thing tomorrow morning |
| 29 | Make su yeah I think I 'll do that this weekend . |
| 30 | Leave the parents to me ; I 'll do any necessary explaining , ’ said Jennifer , then paused as a loudspeaker announcement suddenly echoed across the field . |