Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes you may want to reach everyone on the list , but more often you will only be using certain sections or even picking out a dozen or so specialist outlets . |
| 2 | I should 've learnt everything by the time I was thirty , not wait until I was in me forties . |
| 3 | I should like to thank everyone in the Division for all the hard work which has gone into making 1990 a year of significant progress . |
| 4 | We should have done something like the RAND health insurance experiment . |
| 5 | No Should have had one in the bedroom last night with next door upstairs . |
| 6 | Er I should have reminded everybody at the beginning , when you wish when you start to speak , would you please introduce yourself , give your name and who you represent . |
| 7 | The low price of sugar before 1690 , the dangers of war after 1690 , the Company 's inadequate provision for depreciation , and the planters ' unwillingness to pay their debts , might between them have ruined the Company in any case , but the end of the monopoly must have contributed something to the collapse . |
| 8 | I must have missed something in the council tax . |
| 9 | Of course , this group at Ephesus must have heard something about the Holy Spirit if they listened at all attentively to John the Baptist , but they did not realise that the promised Spirit was available for them ; that he could make a difference to their lives . |
| 10 | At a World Cup : ‘ The manager must have said something in the Dutch dressing gown at half-time . ’ |
| 11 | As earnings rank as personalty in any case and they must have had something in the way of moveables , especially those taxed on land , it is reasonable to treat all assessments as though made on goods . |
| 12 | ‘ He must have had somebody on the boat , ’ said Owen . |
| 13 | Sarah , in her turn , must have experienced something of the warmth of feeling which can link one human being to another , but now , all that was left was a fierce possessiveness , veined with jealousy which at any moment could flare into hatred . |
| 14 | Thus , where the draftsman used the phrase " adjoining premises " in one part of the lease and the phrase " adjoining or neighbouring premises " in another part of it , it was held that the former phrase only applied to property that came into physical contact with the demised property because the words " or neighbouring " must have added something to the word " adjoining " ( White v Harrow ( 1902 ) 86 LT 4 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ But knowing the little person he is , he 'll want to do something about the problem he has because he knows it will help other children , too . |
| 16 | One other matter before I ask the General Secretary I think our colleague might want to say something after the General Secretary . |
| 17 | Then we 'll have to tip someone on the floor . |
| 18 | ‘ But I 'm warning you , Adam , I 'll have to leave something in the Dove Trust — a bit over fifteen per cent — or I ca n't justify what I 've done . ’ |
| 19 | you 'll have to have one in the sink |
| 20 | I tell you what we 'll do , we 'll try to find someone on the way who knows the counter-spell and send him back to wake the Gnomes up . ’ |
| 21 | Oh well you may find you might have to renegotiate something in the summer term then I suppose , but you 'll just have to see it how it works out . |
| 22 | But he 'd sat there listening , with that sneering smile of his , drinking Ban 's claret as if he was doing the Braithwaites a great favour , while Ben , who 'd had his share of claret too , lamented the fall of the Whig government , which might have done something for the manufacturing classes , and the election of the land-owning Tories , that bunch of country squires like the Larks , who would not . |
| 23 | Oh it was a nice ball that by , shoots and scores , Notts get a second just moments after they might have conceded one at the other end , the referee unimpressed by the penalty claims but the crowd are there , with a really fine piece of finishing by Gary , nine minutes to half time and adds to the one that got in twenty four , and it 's two nil to Notts County against . |
| 24 | In the middle of many clashes and difficulties were the men whom I had met , and to whom , if I had been a true friend , I might have given something of the faith and spirit which could have helped them find a better way for their people . |
| 25 | By this time I was feeling very friendly towards them and I might have said something to the effect : " If you will just mosey on down this trail ( meaning the main road between Cambridge and Huntingdon ) you will come to Alconbury , some 15 to 16 miles away . " |
| 26 | Just watch a bat weave its way through the evening sky and you may begin to glimpse something of the world it perceives . |
| 27 | If this is so , then the church may begin to experience something of the grief of Jesus going ‘ through all the towns and villages ’ and being filled with compassion because the crowds ‘ were harassed and helpless , like sheep without a shepherd ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm interested in art and maybe I 'd like to do something in the art world . |
| 29 | ‘ You said you 'd like to see something of the Cotswold Way . |
| 30 | On her retiral she commented , ‘ I 've enjoyed many rewarding moments through the years and I 'd like to thank everyone for the wonderful send off and beautiful gifts . ’ |