Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The historian may relate what happened ; but when it comes to explaining why events occurred as they did , and why decisions were taken as they were , he can not always fulfil his role as he would wish . |
| 2 | So let's think what happened to the caveman then . |
| 3 | ‘ You may think I fell apart and did n't handle myself very well . ’ |
| 4 | Familiarity with the case , product or service you are discussing may make you blinkered . |
| 5 | The fields were spread thick with buttercups and the may blossom which had been particularly plentiful this year was beginning to turn and fall . |
| 6 | And to do that I do have to say something about what truth is , in order to explain why we should want it told . |
| 7 | ( One must presume he saw the answer had to be one half of 100 x 101 . ) |
| 8 | And the factory where I work I should think we took about fourteen of the men at this factory . |
| 9 | cos erm , usually on a Monday there 's hardly anybody there at all , you know , they I should think we represented half the you know , just |
| 10 | Then I should think you came up here , and that was probably the first time you realised what had happened . |
| 11 | He rather doubted Caroline 's story , but it was flattering that any woman should think she 'd had him . |
| 12 | She had n't told him in the beginning because it was totally unimportant to her — her family was not religious — and then , after they had been married a while and she had discovered he was extremely intolerant about various classes of people — not Jews , in fact , but Negroes and Catholics — she had been afraid to tell him in case he should think she had deliberately concealed her origins because she had not trusted him . |
| 13 | She had intended , and was obviously successful , that George Langley should think she had asked her parents to come . |
| 14 | I do n't know whether she had any more , she said she hoped it was the last and I should think she did , thirteen children to look after . |
| 15 | Well I should think she did , I 'll if you 'd have done that in my room the and filled my room up with |
| 16 | but should think it had gone deep . |
| 17 | I should think it measured about two yards . |
| 18 | for you I said and I should think I said it 's your , your own erm |
| 19 | And the er , I should think I said , er Ray they 're going |
| 20 | I knew what he was getting at , of course , and I was so hurt that he should think he had to approach me in such a roundabout fashion — as if I was a terrible , uncharitable woman who had to be coaxed into a simple act of kindness — that I suggested it myself at once , though it was really the last thing I wanted . |
| 21 | ‘ I should think he looked around for something heavy that would take glue , and with all that junk lying around there was bound to be something . |
| 22 | I should think he looked like nothing on earth did he ? |
| 23 | Richard avoided looking at her , for fear she should think he meant anything particular by it . |
| 24 | It should describe who commissioned the report and , if necessary , why it was required . |
| 25 | ‘ I must know what happened to you down there on Moloch . |
| 26 | For him to learn anything from it , he must know who wrote it . |
| 27 | But I must know who killed my daughter . |
| 28 | ‘ Look , ’ she said , ‘ if you must know I went to a party , got a bit wet , borrowed some clothes and came home . |
| 29 | It was no problem for me to post a crew , and I did , and many of you must know I did post WAAF at the same time . |
| 30 | Not only was he enjoying trying to blame the fire on Lisa , when surely he must know she had enough problems already , but that reference to ‘ poor , downtrodden Nigel ’ was almost shocking in its coldness . |