Example sentences of "[vb mod] [pron] [verb] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Let us imagine that I have the misfortune to be born or to have settled in Portugal ; being an enlightened philosopher I dislike the institutions there ; should I try to change them by political subversion ?
2 And why should I try to throw you off the scent ?
3 Must you continue to throw her at me ? ’ he gritted in sudden anger .
4 ‘ You do n't want me to know anything about you , so why should you want to know anything about me ? ’
5 ‘ Why should you bother to remember me at all — except unpleasantly ? ’ she murmured .
6 ‘ Why should you dare to refuse me without giving me a reason ? ’ he countered .
7 Once you have completed your design , you must ensure that you cover it with a sheet of glass should you have to leave it at any time .
8 Why on earth should she want to tie herself to someone like that ? ’
9 ‘ Why on earth should she have thought anything like that ? ’ he demanded , sounding almost angry .
10 There is no need to introduce any technical terms for discourse types , nor should we hesitate to name them to our students for fear of burdening them with jargon .
11 Now that we have video in the classroom the opportunity to focus on the visual is clearly there , so should we attempt to include it in a systematic way ?
12 That should it 's found you at last .
13 But why should he have considered me at all ?
14 Might I have seen you on the Great White Way ? ’
15 Why might you prefer to place it in Cornwall rather than in east Devon or Somerset ?
16 but you might you know miss it by a week and got three months , two months , three weeks at the most
17 Could someone have done it on purpose ? ’ he asked .
18 How could I have imagined something like that ?
19 Could I have caught him at a bad moment , could he have mellowed , I could n't believe it .
20 ‘ And since at no time have you possessed the prince 's heart , how could I have stolen it from you ? ’
21 How could I have left it in the car .
22 How could you have seen it from here ?
23 Could you have shifted it as an individual in the right direction ?
24 Could you have put it in Rose 's bag instead of your own ? ’
25 " And could you have borrowed one for the night ? "
26 Could you have labelled it in a way that would sort of help yourself more ?
27 Well I think you 're moving on now to a sphere where perhaps C I D could you know help you on that .
28 Could you try to remember one for us ? ’
29 What more could she say to prevent him from carrying out his plan to move out of the village ?
30 Could she have missed it by mistaking it for one of the panelled wardrobes ?
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