Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [v-ing] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for payment times , we can not disagree : they are unpredictable , and only those institutions willing to sustain major expenses , after the contract is signed and until the funds are finally transferred , should consider working with these programmes . |
| 2 | ‘ You must enjoy working in such opulence . ’ |
| 3 | We should keep thinking about this … the politics of the situation can hardly be ignored as the personal is the political , especially for women in Scotland . |
| 4 | Give the board a good jolt and the l.e.d. should stop flashing for another minute . |
| 5 | We must stop writing to each other , Donald . |
| 6 | We must stop talking about that . |
| 7 | This means one must avoid calling from another room , talking with your face in shadow , walking away before you have finished the sentence or calling something over your shoulder as you go out of the door . |
| 8 | The bookseller expressed no surprise that Mr Mitterrand , a client of 40 years ' standing , should go browsing on such a crucial day . |
| 9 | ‘ I hope you 'll enjoy reading about this in tomorrow 's papers . ’ |
| 10 | No doubt with a passenger in the back the trim would be sufficient , but the sink rate might need watching at that speed . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't think I 'll go canoeing after all , ’ she said stiffly . |
| 12 | You might go hoping for some insight into the goat-hair experiences of Professor Peters or Evans-Pritchard , but , after the initial polite questions , you are asked if you have heard the news from Iran . |
| 13 | No matter about the slump in the property market , nor that there does n't seem to be any money about : they 'll come running for these . |
| 14 | ‘ After that I suppose I 'll start training for another marathon , but I 've never been good at looking to the future . |
| 15 | I 'll start I 'll start paying from this week anyway . |
| 16 | Erm I could n't er you 'd , I 'd need warning of that of course . |
| 17 | He could remember coming to this house fifteen years earlier to deliver her first child . |
| 18 | ‘ Emily ’ she says , ‘ do n't you think you could stop talking for half an hour ? |
| 19 | ‘ I wish you 'd stop fiddling with that thing , ’ Gurder said . |
| 20 | It seemed obvious that the best form of organization for overseas trade was the one that was used first in exporting wool and then by the cloth traders , who still accounted for three-quarters of English exports in the first half of the century : all the merchants involved would sell together at a ‘ staple ’ town , usually in Belgium or the Netherlands , where they could avoid competing with each other and so increase their bargaining strength . |
| 21 | ‘ We could get going on that next week , ’ said Susan . |
| 22 | I feel really as if I ought to start flying through this awful mess ! |
| 23 | So I had a market cornered and good access to American trips because I used to like writing about that , even though on the early stuff I must have affected a punk rock stance long after it was all over . ’ |
| 24 | Moving may mean leaving behind many memories of your pet that can be difficult to abandon . |
| 25 | I mean there is erm we 've s we 've stopped there let's go working from this way S is that that 's that that 's that . |
| 26 | An independent Central Bank might provide such a restraint , and so might the constitutional amendment , suggested in Friedman and Friedman ( 1980 ) , which obliges the government to expand the money stock at some fixed rate and which would make cheating on this obligation illegal . |
| 27 | It also requires that working conditions for the staff in such areas are improved , work loads are lessened , research facilities improved and other similar measures adopted that would make working in such areas satisfying and challenging . |
| 28 | About half the farmers interviewed would consider changing to another enterprise if farm incomes were to drop and would require training to provide the new competence . |
| 29 | She made a very positive effort to be the right kind of person to be around — in other words , she was not a liability , she was an asset , an extremely good cook and a very good organiser , and having discovered that we both went to the same school in Switzerland where French was the main language taught , we would enjoy talking to each other in French , much to the annoyance of David who could n't understand the language . ’ |
| 30 | He would enjoy working with this boy , teaching him the ropes . |