Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [prep] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although occasionally an older vessel may substitute for one in dry dock , many venerable craft have been pensioned off . |
| 2 | It is he — another person , she told herself , I must think of him as another person . |
| 3 | I must speak to you about this . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Well , old fellow in the cellarage , ’ she whispered lightly to herself , though the breath was shallow in her throat , ‘ it seems I must speak with you at last . ’ |
| 5 | For example , the modern female hostage who falls in love with her captor may not merely be manifesting the well-known defence of ‘ identification with the aggressor ’ ( particularly since it is not so much identification with him as submission to him ) , she may instead be giving way to her phylogenetic id and its demand that a female captured by a male should look to him for sexual satisfaction . |
| 6 | If we think those ancient people were silly , we should look to ourselves in modern times . |
| 7 | Because this is the world 's future , and we must hurry towards it with open and welcoming arms . |
| 8 | ‘ I do not see why you should apologise to me in any way , it is I who behaved like a little monster . |
| 9 | One of them — a little old-fashioned perhaps , for I do not see many people doing it nowadays — is to walk around it guide-book in hand , best of all with one of those old Murray 's Handbooks for Travellers , the most catholic , the most informative , the most solid guide-books ever written in this country ; still well worth buying though the last one came out nearly fifty years ago and one must hunt for them with increasing difficulty in the second-hand bookshops . |
| 10 | I found it a bit odd that a sensible girl should write about them in that — that romantic way . ’ |
| 11 | He m he might sort of put an answer down like this and erm he 'll say , Well this this should come to something like seven teen point six times ten to the minus nought point four . |
| 12 | You wonder that it should seem to me at first all illusion But how natural — It is true of me … very true … that I have not a high appreciation of what passes in the world under the name of love ; & that a distrust of the thing had grown to be a habit of mind with me when I knew you first . |
| 13 | But the pilot and your husband must come with us to another country . |
| 14 | We are directly presented with them in our ordinary experience , and so must start with them in any investigation into hidden and unknown causes . |
| 15 | John had claimed it was just possible to go backwards ( as it were ) , but you must talk to him about that . |
| 16 | He is a very complex man ; he thinks deeply about every role and you must talk to him in great detail . |
| 17 | You , or the person whose name we use must co-operate with us on any matter affecting this insurance . |
| 18 | You , or the person whose name we use must co-operate with us on any matter affecting this insurance . |
| 19 | You , or the person whose name we use must co-operate with us on any matter affecting this insurance . |
| 20 | You , or the person whose name we use must co-operate with us on any matter affecting this insurance . |
| 21 | The seller then becomes a trustee for the buyer and must account to him for any dividends he receives and vote in accordance with his instructions ( or appoint him as his proxy ) . |
| 22 | So important a part of our story does Macmillan 's visit to the north become that we must deal with it in some detail , and our main contemporary source for what happened is Macmillan 's own diary entries of the time for 12 and 13 May . |
| 23 | I think I should say to you at this point , that if you 're moving into these areas , you are moving into what I can , or , just totally contrary in fact to your policies , and directions , and er , not only that , I think we have difficulty sustaining . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'll knock for you at eight for dinner . |
| 25 | It 's not something just to be pushed to one side , and , ‘ Oh , yes , he 's coming at eleven o'clock , so I 'll think about it at five to eleven . ’ |
| 26 | Well he said , Alright , he said , I 've made arrangements for your baggage to be picked up and you 'll stay with me in New Rochelle , and he was going away and he slipped me ten bucks cos I only had ten pounds money . |
| 27 | take care love , and if I do n't see you , when I , I 'll speak to you before any way . |
| 28 | ‘ Look , man , ’ he said , ‘ I 'll divide with you on this . |
| 29 | And then you say , oh I 'll ring before them before ten thirty , but you do n't say ring |
| 30 | ‘ I 'll stick with you through thick and thin' ( English ) . |