Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adv] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His intention is to experience an ‘ as if ’ context — in a game two friends may agree to behave as if they are opponents ; in drama two friends may make exactly the same agreement . |
| 2 | Carlos Palenque , a mestizo who built up a media empire by getting poor Indians to telephone their complaints to his radio and television shows , may win quite a few votes in the capital . |
| 3 | Yeah , so I should think quite a few . |
| 4 | should think so an all |
| 5 | This should need only a few turns |
| 6 | ‘ I must do just a few more menial things before I go to bed ’ or , more oddly , ‘ I was nearly run over on my menial way this morning . ’ |
| 7 | Bridgend raised their game against Wales ; now Wales must do precisely the same against New Zealand . |
| 8 | So court dominates St Aldate 's throughout the war , and I think therefore we should spend just a little time looking at the people involved , erm but not too much . |
| 9 | In principle for any word bearing an inflectional affix , it is possible to find contexts where all possible substitutes must contain either the same affix , or one belonging to the same closed set : consider the possible substitutes for walked in Cedric walked home , longer in Mine is longer than yours or books in those books . |
| 10 | Although these cards have different colours they must have approximately the same IR reflectance . |
| 11 | You see , but he did n't have a Federation of Buil , Master Builders , but whether , I mean this chap must have quite a few , he did n't say it , but |
| 12 | I must seem just the same to him . |
| 13 | A popular health-service argument was that every one of the million or so staff should get exactly the same percentage increase in pay — as though the recruitment and retention position was the same for all . |
| 14 | But you should get roughly the same reaction . |
| 15 | Usually we should get much the same results by applying the same load slowly . |
| 16 | Still try to feel that you are swinging down and through and your follow-through should travel roughly the same distance as your backswing ( photos 3–6 ) . |
| 17 | Crows may do much the same sort of thing as buzzards and eagles but , since there are so many of them , the luckless crows are ignored . |
| 18 | And they 'll cover roughly the same topic areas . |
| 19 | I 'll bring home a few big boxes tomorrow to put |
| 20 | I 'll do just a few observations on the match . |
| 21 | That 'll do only a few . |
| 22 | It 'll look less the more branches you draw |
| 23 | Whichever way she 'll look much the same . |
| 24 | The least attractive side for paid golfers must be the continual travel , the airports , the courtesy car that fails to show , the lost baggage , and the certainty that when they get there , they 'll see exactly the same faces , talking the same shop , week after week . |
| 25 | Here , I 'll use quite a few more , get your clothes on , you 'll get cold . |
| 26 | Raising a languid hand towards a grey-haired woman seated in an armchair beside the dog , and who looked as though she might patronise just the same sort of charity shops as Ellie herself , he introduced , ‘ My mother . ’ |
| 27 | Politicians , uncomfortable in the spotlight , publicly back some sort of reform package that might take away a few of their perks . |
| 28 | We 'll meet here , on the same day , in two years ' time , at seven o'clock , and we 'll have exactly the same things to eat , and tell each other quite frankly in what ways we 've changed . |
| 29 | I 'll take quite a few egg sandwiches . |
| 30 | because they might have only a few , whereas the others have got thousands on them . |