Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we hope that these impressions will at least bring some encouragement to the many friends we made who are working there , and that they may perhaps even help them by opening their eyes to some new possibilities based on experience elsewhere . |
| 2 | ‘ I should jolly well hope you do see it , ’ Lady Woodleigh snapped . |
| 3 | Why he should hold them , why he should so strangely realize them , and above all , why he should have chosen me to be his solitary audience of one , remained a total mystery . |
| 4 | Some jokes are so awful that you should only ever tell them while you 're wearing a decent pair of trainers . |
| 5 | Patricia Knapp , in the United States , once commented that one could get a perfectly good liberal education from a paperback bookshop : the sense in which this is true must not however blind us to the fact that self-learning of this kind has its weaknesses , is unreliable , and depends very much on the way in which the student undertakes his task . |
| 6 | To grasp the meaning of a handshake we must not only see it positively as located in a greeting ceremonial , that is in a sequence of actions identified with respect to the social act they accomplish , but we must also see it negatively , as excluding certain alternatives and possibilities of action . |
| 7 | ‘ I reckon that should just about do it . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Should just about make it . ’ |
| 9 | This should not however blind us to its reappearance . |
| 10 | This should not however put you off sampling : Joseph is an original . |
| 11 | But it is out of respect for your views , Mr Lewis , that I feel one should not simply cast them to one side as though they were uttered by some soap-box eccentric . |
| 12 | I began thus for to assent both to them and diverse of my friends here at home and not less to an inward prompting which daily now grew upon me , that by labour and intent study , which I take to be my portion in this life , joined with a strong propensity of nature , I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes as they should not willingly let it die . ’ |
| 13 | This should not unduly worry us : by that time , unless we have colonized beyond the Solar System , mankind will long since have died out , extinguished along with our sun ! |
| 14 | It should not perhaps surprise us that trade unions appear to have made less bargaining headway on the issues of job design than on the question of equipment design . |
| 15 | But for the moment , that 's not the point — which is rather that those who have been , legitimately or at least understandably , affronted by the pretensions of Olson as poet should not therefore write him off as anything but what he was : an exceptionally earnest and magnanimous man , and a man moreover who knew , as few poets since John Milton have known , what the polity looks like from the point of view of those who administer it day by day . |
| 16 | Janice believed that misunderstanding or mistreatment in themselves , though undesirable , should not necessarily deflect you from your course . |
| 17 | The monitoring and evaluation process should not only inform us about the quality of what is being offered in schools , it should actually promote a raising of standards . |
| 18 | ‘ I should damn well think I did n't approve . |
| 19 | However , you must now please excuse me . |
| 20 | We should n't just think we 're not going to be here in two years time , it 's somebody else 's problem , they 'll take over our debts . |
| 21 | I should n't just leave it on the floor look cos we sha n't find it again and then when the hoover tries to pick it up it will have a fit . |
| 22 | At the same time I think others , or the points she raises , erm , you know are good points and I do n't think that we should just my personal feeling is that we should n't just shelve it . |
| 23 | ‘ What you 're saying is , ’ she said , ‘ that one should n't even whisper it in the wind on the hill-tops because once said a thing can never be unsaid ; that expression gives power to thought ; that even the clear though unspoken formulation of a nebulous impression may be dangerous , giving it a force and potency which silence or merely a lack of clarification would deny to it . ’ |
| 24 | Th er I have n't actually Yeah I 'll bring you some headed notepaper but you should n't actually need it except if people want This person is doing this on behalf of . |
| 25 | You wo n't see the papers again but you 'll get , I mean you should n't really see them I have |
| 26 | No you should n't really take it on him personally |
| 27 | I 'm sure you 're very busy , and I know I should n't really ask you , but we could meet somewhere near your office … ’ |
| 28 | ‘ My dear Constance , I am not suggesting that you should no longer visit me . |
| 29 | An area which is at present not built on , which is open , which has had greenbelt protection since nineteen eighty , which it is now proposed should no longer have it . |
| 30 | Twenty minutes later he had reached paragraph 9 when a voice from the next room told him that if he were typing anything other than his bloody resignation he should bloody well do it at a more civilised bloody hour . |