Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] [be] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must have been arranging those flowers , and setting the lighted candles round them , at the very moment my father was dying . |
| 2 | ‘ Then I catch up with what I should have been doing all day . |
| 3 | When I lived right on the job it used to drive my wife round the bend — I 'd be at home on a weekend , perhaps in the garden , and I 'd think about something in the greenhouse across the road so I 'd go over there and disappear for an hour whereas perhaps I should have been giving more time to my family . |
| 4 | Erm right okay well the first thing I 'd do is handle that one . |
| 5 | How can we criticize it , how well does it actually fit into what happened in the real world , they just want little bits of information but not too much depth on anything but always remember empirical evidence examples are very important what I would do is using those examples or la last year 's exam paper , practise , practise the short answers because you ca n't write very much detail in it so it 's a good idea to have some idea about how much you can write , then your expectations will be changed okay . |
| 6 | Tell you what I would do is mix some slightly different colour green |
| 7 | I am sorry I ca n't be any more help with that at this stage what I can do is to take that question away and circulate the information after I 've done some sums . |
| 8 | The best thing I can do is forget all about him , ’ she told a close friend . |
| 9 | All I can say is give these people a film score to settle . |
| 10 | The medical treatments for some of the illnesses you may experience are improving all the time . |
| 11 | Paradoxically , however , although over the years you may have been contributing many thousands of pounds to the Inland Revenue , in practice you may have had very little direct contact with the tax system . |
| 12 | She may have been killed any time in the last two days . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ What you ought to do is teach these girls some manners , ’ the American muttered crossly . |
| 14 | The first thing you must do is to assign any system-wide logical names required by the process , eg. pseudo-devices used for the process or storage directories , and all the logicals for all the storage directories known to the process . |
| 15 | So she must have been wearing some funny shoes to get corns on |
| 16 | She must have been straining all day . |
| 17 | Straightforward conversation wife to wife , well again she must have been told that by her husband to even mention it . |
| 18 | The worst she could do was to bring that Tuscan adventurer into the family , since when none of us has had a moment 's peace . |
| 19 | You 'd have been doing that . |
| 20 | It 's not very nice when you 're driving the vehicle and er I know you 're all experienced drivers and then you get somebody sitting there alongside you starting to look at you do , and I I you could 've been driving all your life but you still feel a bit edgy and a bit tense . |
| 21 | You may have already decided what sort of walking boots to buy , but the shop assistant will , with barely disguised contempt , correct you , telling you how foolish you would have been to buy such footwear , how lucky it was you came here first , and convincing you that for only an extra £65 you can have the boot you really need . |
| 22 | The first thing she will do is organise more space than the limited suite of offices traditionally allocated to the First Lady . |
| 23 | What you can do is make some exaggerated moves such as lying on the floor , climbing through each other 's arms or whatever . |
| 24 | The worst thing you can do is set these things and then cock it up because secretaries is people that pride themselves on being administratively perfect |
| 25 | and what you can do is to keep that one for best |
| 26 | What you can do is list all the people down here and then you might have a skills matrix you might also have a product knowledge matrix yeah ? |
| 27 | The Vietnamese have finally got control of their own country after forty years of war ; defeated the Japs , the French , us , and the most powerful nation in the history of the planet in succession , with bicycles , guns and guts , been bombed back into the bronze age in the process and all you can do is spout some tired nonsense about little yellow men infiltrating the steaming jungles of the Nullarbor Plain and turning the Aussies into Commies ; I think a Highland League side winning the European Cup is marginally more likely . ’ |
| 28 | and er I bloody , I said , I said in the end I 've , what we ought to do is lop some part of their anatomy off , like a little digit or something then we can prove they 've been in |
| 29 | And I think what we ought to do is have another look at you now . |
| 30 | But erm I mean th th the debate yesterday was , was as , as budget issues always are I mean when you 're talking about budget no matter , even in boom years you 're always still talking oh we have n't got enough money erm but it was positive in the sense that it was A we 're coming off the back of some good performance , and that 's important to remember , and all I 'm saying is there 's no reason why we should n't be able to maintain our performance , even if we ca n't improve it in the next two or three months erm from , to where we actually think we should have been given that the systems come in last year . |