Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may prefer not to do so because of the risk of breach of confidence or discrimination . |
| 2 | The child must know how to win back the favour of its parents . |
| 3 | By all means outlaw unsafe parties , but the Government must consider how to allow properly organised events to take place . |
| 4 | Firstly , we should look back to see how things could be improved . |
| 5 | I must beg therefore to give up the appointment and request you to accept my Resignation . |
| 6 | Accordingly she wrote to her favourite niece Lilian Baylis , then in South Africa , requesting that she should return home to take over the management of the theatre . |
| 7 | You should try not to feel so tense and let things get on top of you . |
| 8 | They should try not to worry too much about it , knowing that it will pass . |
| 9 | ‘ Katherine , my dear , you must try not to mind too much about your mother . ’ |
| 10 | I think perhaps I must try never to go away unless with you — And yet I know when you are out at supper with others , that you are all the time thinking of me , as I am of you ( and last evening in the hansom ! |
| 11 | ‘ My daughters said I should come here to help clear this thing up , to find who really did this because unless it is cleared up then history will say that we were sent to our deaths by Britain , and that means the British people and the British army and they do n't deserve that because it is out of character . ’ |
| 12 | Her early school reports were peppered with comments , complimentary or judgemental , depending on the teacher : ‘ Margaret has a very active imagination ’ , ‘ Margaret must learn not to go off into day-dreams ’ , ‘ Margaret does not yet seem to have learned the difference between fact and fiction ’ . |
| 13 | The highest ranking muderrises-those at the Suleymaniye medreses -go to certain named kadiliks such as Damascus and Aleppo , for example , while the muderrises of the next two lower classes — the and the — may choose either to take up kadiliks such as those of Jerusalem , Baghdad and Filibe , or to go to the next higher rank of medrese . |
| 14 | The beneficiaries may be willing to sell the shares to the surviving directors — but they may choose not to do so . |
| 15 | The child might prefer not to come home alone . |
| 16 | Such is the state of computer technology for the registration and running of club membership lists that hobby-based clubs for children or adults like this , run by publishers , could well proliferate , and lively booksellers might do well to get in on the act . |
| 17 | But it might do well to look very carefully at the IASC 's work . |
| 18 | Instead of towing amplified sweet nothings ahead of the school , they might do better to sit astern with a few well-chosen selections from The Osmonds ' Greatest Hits , or Singalongamax . |
| 19 | For the time being , however , investors might do better to clear out their portfolios than to add to them . |
| 20 | I 'll try not to fall down the step when I go . |
| 21 | I 'll try harder to keep out of your way , try not to annoy you . |
| 22 | Well there is but I mean it 'll take forever to get there ! |
| 23 | I 'll go down to get though . |
| 24 | ‘ And you 'll go back to work tomorrow , because you 'd never skip work , would you , Mister Reliable ? |
| 25 | And I think one might go on to argue that far from saving labour it creates it — that its function is to give one the task of understanding it . |
| 26 | I 'll get then to ring Alright . |
| 27 | ‘ You 'll come home to get well and then we 'll think of something else for you . ’ |
| 28 | If I might turn briefly to see how such a scheme might possibly work . |
| 29 | Right will you you may work together to work out . |
| 30 | ‘ We 'd do best to meet away from the office , ’ he said . |