Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [pron] [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may suit yourself on that one ! |
| 2 | Not for the first time he wondered why it should affect him like that , when he himself was fond of Chuck and admired him , too . |
| 3 | I think you must prefer everything in that room . |
| 4 | I should think something like that really . |
| 5 | If that is so , they must explain something about that uncertainty to the child , and include the fact that others have a positive belief in life after death . |
| 6 | I do n't know I mean er maybe these are minute but whether you should explore them at that moment in time I mean only experience will tell . |
| 7 | It struck me as extraordinary that the hon. Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) should attack us on that point . |
| 8 | There is no reason why having some coincidental sperm-and-egg relationship with a child should entitle someone for that reason to be seen as a ‘ natural expert ’ , as distinct from a very clever , highly qualified one . |
| 9 | regardless of what they want to do , the rest of the organization , I think that we as an organization should do something like that . |
| 10 | ‘ I should slap you for that remark but you 're not worth soiling my hands with . |
| 11 | ‘ I suppose I must thank you for that , ’ replied the Queen of Casterbridge market rather ungratefully . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't think people should read anything into that , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Do they want to become MPs for the money ( some , it seems hard to credit , apparently are dim enough to think so ) , for the glamour ( one glance at the crumpled dandruff-laden figure putting the question should disabuse them of that idea ) , for the influence ? |
| 14 | Names will be picked out of the bag on January 31st , so coupons must reach us by that date . |
| 15 | That is , it is unclear whether what is being maintained is that our conception of effects is of unnecessitated events or that we should change it to that . |
| 16 | When one of the fattest hailed him when he was out shopping he decided he must disassociate himself from that crowd . |
| 17 | or anything , I really do n't think anyone should put themselves in that position . |
| 18 | We all know that the task we 've set the officers is to manage within the budgets they 've been given , and to have no cuts in services , and no compulsory redundancies , and thi this is their challenge and this is what they seem to be achieving , and I think we should applaud them for that . |
| 19 | The social charter has an enormous role to play and we should concern ourselves with that , because it is relevant to us all , wherever we live and whatever part of the country we represent . |
| 20 | Once you get that down , this then becomes the area that they might think , let's do something about that . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'll sack her for that , ’ she said out loud . |
| 22 | Do you reckon she 'll prefer it in that colour ? |
| 23 | I 'm sure you 'll value her for that . ’ |
| 24 | Although she had never allowed herself to consider it a possibility , the thought had crossed her mind that he might know something about that letter . |
| 25 | And er she says Jean I swear to God she says if she comes over near my door , I 've told Jim she says , I , I 'm ready for her I 'll beat her round that square and she said I 'm not like that but she says that 's just the way she says , and she hurt my kids when I sent them Easter eggs over , doing that she says , that really galled me , she says cos they were hurting my kids rather than me . |
| 26 | ‘ There 's my old black one — you might do something with that . ’ |
| 27 | I thought I might do it like that . |
| 28 | Right we 'll do something on that for you and erm |
| 29 | Yes yes I 'll do something about that . ’ |
| 30 | Because if , if you get a letter from somebody and you think oh , it 's lovely I 'll , I 'll do something about that . |