Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [pers pn] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Captures may damage it and the beads of glue exposed to the air may lose some of their stickiness . |
| 2 | I should think they and the audience had a whale of a time or , in the rather more sober words of the two authors , ‘ the use of drama as a vehicle for science at the primary level has exciting possibilities that warrant further exploration . ’ |
| 3 | I ask that volunteers should contact me and the steering committee should be non-political . |
| 4 | Angelica , trying to place her accent but not managing it , said , ‘ You should see it when the season gets going , it 's madness . |
| 5 | As the Temple was desecrated , according to the most probable chronology , about December 1 67 and reconsecrated about December 164 , we must take it that the correct interpretation of Daniel is the latter , amounting to about three years , which is in rough agreement with the " time , times and half a time " of the previous chapter . |
| 6 | The letter , from Oxfordshire County Council 's engineering department , said : ’ I understand you are the owner of the vehicle involved and therefore must inform you that the council holds you responsible for the costs of repairs arising from this incident . ’ |
| 7 | I must inform you that the same department are about to close the only respite centre ( Astley House in Huyton ) for children and young adults with special needs in the borough , so they can introduce what they call foster caring . |
| 8 | You must tell them that the balance of the first year 's payment will be taken out through a banker 's order . |
| 9 | I must tell you that the road from here is broken . ’ |
| 10 | Before I go any further , I should tell you that the briefing I had received on the field was as follows : 1000 metres grass , obstructions at both ends , wind sock on the northerly edge . |
| 11 | Jenny I should tell you that the meeting 's being recorded for this er , for the dictionary people . |
| 12 | Mr Dawlish says I should tell you that the Pike brothers are both Latvians but hold British passports . |
| 13 | This this is first of all can we I should tell you that the planning permission for this is passed . |
| 14 | Well I should leave it till the weekend things could change . |
| 15 | It should not persuade us that this writer has yielded or sold out , any more than it should persuade us that the boy poet Klima is in every sense the boy poet Jaromil . |
| 16 | I should remind him and the House that the Government set up Her Majesty 's inspectorate of pollution , for which we got no credit whatsoever from Her Majesty 's Opposition . |
| 17 | ‘ And perhaps I should remind you that the contract you 've just cited binds you as securely as it does us , unless you 're willing to face interminable legal hassles in an effort to extricate yourself . ’ |
| 18 | The Fangsword is specific to Eltharion and only he may carry it but the Talisman of Hoeth can be bought for other High Elf characters by paying the appropriate points cost . |
| 19 | And and it is also perhaps distracted er attention from the interesting disagreements also taking place at the Labour party conference this week between the one more pushes , if I might describe them and the hard liners who believe you 've got to be radical . |
| 20 | ‘ We 'll give it till the baby 's a year old , say . |
| 21 | ‘ But wo n't they be worried you 'll identify them and the police will come here ? ’ |
| 22 | So we 'll do it while the numbers are there to get you familiar with it . |
| 23 | I 'll fetch you when the Library shuts . |
| 24 | And also you 'll like it because the house had to be split into two separate halves — the garden takes priority over domestic comfort . |
| 25 | And also you 'll like it because the cardinal who designed it was a practical joker and built in all sorts of extremely infantile jokes so that he could spray water onto his innocent friends while they were eating their dinner or trying to watch little masques . |
| 26 | ‘ Dr Russell will talk it over with her tonight , show her the sonogram pictures , and I think it 'll convince her that the bed-rest really is necessary . |
| 27 | Give it fifty years and I 'll bet you that the baker and all the rest of the folks , it 'll be coming from a supermarket , but they 'll be delivering stuff that you 've put on your computer . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'll meet you where the gates used to be if that 's all right with you . ’ |
| 29 | nobody might discover it until the office opens on the next morning , erm |
| 30 | I 'll fire him after the speedboat race is over . |