Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 've got a sister who 's a Rainbow , she may want to read it first . |
| 2 | There are advantages and disadvantages of each and you may need to see them all before deciding . |
| 3 | Oh you should 've heard him other day , all Parker pens that are in this house are his he says |
| 4 | So you see they were having a difference of opinion over that and he 's saying you should n't , you should 've left it all to me and she says I 've done it for last fifty year and , you know , all this . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't think they really notice the noise themselves , ’ said Bob , slightly irritated that she should presume to call them silly when they were after all his friends . |
| 6 | Yeah , it must 've cost him that to take them over there . |
| 7 | ‘ The owner must 've reported it missing . |
| 8 | I ai n't been to no doctor 's , well I 'm lying I had to go again , I had to like because I 've been getting these here bloody , I must 've had them ten or fifteen year or more and , cos I 'm on these here tablets now for the old stomach like , and that like . |
| 9 | Those constructing future policies and principles should strive to make them exemplary in this regard , not least because of the encouragement this will give to schools to be rigorous in their own thinking . |
| 10 | They , or something like them , are admirable and important and we must strive to make them political realities , but they are not in themselves law and nothing is gained by pretending that they are law . |
| 11 | I must choose to give it all back to you and to feel the happy liberation of unpossessiveness . |
| 12 | If he 's got a job there , and he 's done it well or he 's done it badly , tell him he 's done it badly , tell them where they 've gone wrong and tell them what they should do to put it right . |
| 13 | So here we are at the end of 1992 and I should like to thank you all for the tremendous hard work you have put into it . |
| 14 | Secondly , I should like to thank you all for helping to deliver a most welcome profits increase in 1992 . |
| 15 | ‘ Madame Lavender , I should like to ask you one or two more questions , ’ said Hassan . |
| 16 | ‘ I should like to smash it all up , ’ said Finn , who had been beaten . |
| 17 | But I should like to make it clear that the suggestion that BAT has been ‘ dumping ’ this pesticide in Kenya has not foundation of truth whatsoever . |
| 18 | I should like to make it clear from the outset that I am participating in this conference not as an expert on any aspect of the teaching of languages , but rather as someone whose primary concern is with the structure of language and , more generally , the nature of cognitive processes . |
| 19 | I should like to make it clear that the provisions of the Government Bill will provide householders with the same level of protection as that which existed under the private Bill , and they are set out fully in schedule 7 . |
| 20 | I should like to make it clear to the House that I accept full responsibility for the actions taken in this case by officials of the Home Office and by my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary , who dealt with it . |
| 21 | If the patient had hobbies before his stroke or head injury , such as drawing , painting or needlepoint , you should try to make it possible for him to take them up again . |
| 22 | But we must try to get him stable at that level . ’ |
| 23 | So it 's still a pretty good wildlife area — and we must try to keep it that way . |
| 24 | Dire though the attacks on Belfast have been during the past two months , it is a sign of just how successful economic development has been that the IRA should have felt it necessary to retaliate in the way that it has . |
| 25 | On thirty seven minutes though , Paul Biddle should have made it two nil as he found himself with just the Fairmile goalkeeper to beat , but stupidly played it wide for Brian Marland , but his final pass was poor and Fairmile 's Kevin Shepherd was able to clear the ball from the danger area . |
| 26 | Asserting , what was palpably untrue , that ‘ There are probably few people in India who do not sincerely regret that you should have made it impossible for any government to leave you at liberty ’ , he handed down a sentence of six years ' simple imprisonment , pointing out — the crowning touch-that the sentence was the same as that given to the nationalist hero Bal Gangadhar Tilak , twelve years before . |
| 27 | Wyllie should have made it 13-0 , but missed an easy drop goal in front of the posts . |
| 28 | A PSDR should have made it easier to restrain the growth of the money supply . |
| 29 | The failure of the DUP to endorse the illegality of working-class loyalists , which stems from a general reluctance to break the law and an evaluation of the present situation which argues that such extreme acts are not yet justified , should have made it unpopular with working-class loyalists and to an extent it has . |
| 30 | We should have made it clear to the Media Action team not to refer callers to named staff . |