Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adv prt] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Richemont should buy out the Philip Morris stake it would trigger an obligation to bid for the rest of the shares . |
| 2 | Maybe we should call up the McKeans to say we got back safely ; you can ask after Julie … ’ |
| 3 | Labour MP Frank Field , who chairs the Social Security Select Committee , said last night : ‘ When he is back in work , and can sell the house , he should pay back the DSS . ’ |
| 4 | He asked the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff if he should pull out the Ariadne which they knew , of course , was sitting over the crashed plane . |
| 5 | How would Niger and Nigeria react to the plans of upstream nations for barrages and irrigation schemes which might dry up the Niger ? |
| 6 | If we are pretty sure that someone has had a heart attack though , we 'll whistle up the RAF helicopter to get the casualty straight to the hospital . |
| 7 | If , for instance , a doctor prescribes sleeping tablets for occasional use only , he might strike out the NP and put ‘ sleeping tablets ’ in the NP box . |
| 8 | They could make up the England rugby pack . ’ |
| 9 | After much negotiation , the Welsh Wool Marketing Board agreed to a special arrangement whereby the Cambrian Mill could make up the Ashley 's own wool into cloth as long as this was not sold , but used only for demonstration models and pattern samples . |
| 10 | Truman 's new secretary of state , James F. Byrnes , was at first serenely confident that he could carry on the Roosevelt approach to Stalin with the American nuclear monopoly in reserve in his " hip pocket " , and with no automatic supporting role for the British . |
| 11 | Could finish off the UK vehicle division , ’ he said forlornly , ‘ and Don Peters , ’ he added , shaking his head . |
| 12 | Alternatively , you could set up the WP3–7 to give two different volume levels , different sounds for slap and fingerstyle , different EQs for your fretted and fretless basses , or any other combination . |
| 13 | He could take over the Ariadne at any moment and you would n't notice the difference . ’ |
| 14 | Each night I could take out the Vitou dog , a fine little white fox terrier called Mitsy . |
| 15 | In each country , politics complicated development , but German interests finally obtained an east-west canal to link Berlin with the Ruhr and by 1905 ships of 2,000 tons could go up the Rhine as far as Mannheim , a very important change since the Ruhr by then needed more than German ore . |
| 16 | That night , she 'd said , ‘ If you 'd come out the Quindale way you 'd never 've got through ; it 's flooded right across the road from Briar Farm to the old water tower , three feet deep , burst water main , ’ and Luke had said , ‘ Yeah , ’ and gone out to the kitchen to raid the fridge . |
| 17 | The barges used to come down the Leeds and Liverpool canal right down to Tate and Lyle 's , where they had chutes that came down from the building into the barges and the coal was sucked up because the coal was very fine ; and the poor people there — they 'd be on the other side of the canal and one would perhaps get on a barge and throw two or three pieces of coal and then scamper up . |
| 18 | She weighed 71b 12oz and while her father expressed his delight at a ‘ perfect physical specimen ’ there was no hiding the sense of anticlimax , if not downright disappointment , in the family that the new arrival was not the longed-for male heir who would carry on the Spencer name . |
| 19 | The warning by a deranged Muslim guerrilla that he would blow up the Visegrad hydroelectric dam unless Serb militiamen ceased their artillery attacks on Visegrad and Foca was not the only liquid that threatened to flood Bosnia-Hercegovina this week . |
| 20 | They thought if I became England manager I would take over the FA — and I would have done ! ’ |
| 21 | As the clocks chimed and struck all over the city he would stroll down the Broad , along St Giles and round by the Parks … |
| 22 | Since February , United Nations military and civilian personnel , who will make up the UNTAG ( United Nations Transitional Assistance Group ) peacekeeping forces , have been arriving in the country ready to monitor the ceasefire and elections . |
| 23 | Surgery will rule out the Blackburn and England striker for at least the rest of this season , and the Blackburn manager , Kenny Dalglish , promised the player will not be rushed into a return . |
| 24 | The mind rather boggles at what might happen should this expedition not be a success — and the odds are not all that good that it will bring back the Bledisloe Cup from Australia or a one-test rubber win from South Africa . |
| 25 | She will be greatly missed by the Society though her daughter Debbie will be staying on in England and will carry on the Langford teaching tradition . |
| 26 | With my colleague , the hon. Member for Glasgow , Govan ( Mr. Sillars ) , in mind , I say that such a process will break up the United Kingdom . |
| 27 | The process constitutes a national threat because it will break up the United Kingdom . |
| 28 | ‘ Draco , you will write out the Codex Fidelitatis forty times , then you at least will possess the correct vocabulary ! ’ |
| 29 | During the consultation process , we discovered considerable support for a general SVQ at level I. There is also a clear demand for awards at a preliminary level which will open up the SVQ and general SVQ frameworks to those for whom mainstream training is not appropriate , including those with special needs . |
| 30 | Near as we can make out the SunSoft deal with Motorola Inc for the PowerPC ( see front page ) is very fresh . |