Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you can afford private treatment , or you have medical insurance cover to pay for it , you may prefer to take on a full treatment programme with the specialist physiotherapist . |
| 2 | Your doctor may want to carry out an MSU ( mid-stream urine ) test , to find out whether bacteria are present in your bladder , and if so , which kind . |
| 3 | Your doctor may want to carry out an internal examination to check the size and position of your womb , which will help indicate how far along you are , or this may be done at your hospital appointment . |
| 4 | But , as the image of chess suggests , one may want to ask why the agent played the move . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's a problem we still have to solve , ’ said a spokesman : it may want to look up the latest crop of hopefuls such as Covia Technologies Inc , Locus Computing Corp , and NobleNet Inc which have recently begun to offer just such solutions . |
| 6 | At any particular time governors and staff may want to know how the plans are progressing and whether they are being carried out as was agreed . |
| 7 | Children may enjoy spreading out a large selection of junk materials on the floor , and exploring and experimenting with them with the teacher 's active participation and help . |
| 8 | If you are a reasonably good rider and can get experienced help , you may enjoy bringing on a just broken four-year old — though youngsters with potential ( whether obvious or in the current owner 's imagination ) can carry big price tags . |
| 9 | Supporters may enjoy working out the other members of the group ! |
| 10 | In larger agencies they may have one or more assistants : the assistants ' tasks may include working out the minor details of a layout or storyboard , and providing paste-ups ( see page 177 ) and other material for production once the basic idea is approved by the client . |
| 11 | At times , you may need to fill in an official form . |
| 12 | You may need to carry out the above exercises a few times before you get any results . |
| 13 | You may have to commit yourself to buying a new home before you have sold your existing one , in which case you may need to take out a bridging loan to tide you over until you sell . |
| 14 | Occasionally , you may need to top up the water and to water the compost to keep it just damp . |
| 15 | Instinctively they may opt to carry out the minimum of conversation and close the interview as soon as they have supplied the list of solicitors . |
| 16 | Alternatively , they may opt to use just the medium edition . |
| 17 | But I find it totally incomprehensible that someone who has held the office of Chancellor with high standing for over six years should want to resign over a personality with such suddenness and haste . ’ |
| 18 | I should 've tidied up a bit — that would 've made Mr Jackson think I 'm grown up enough to look after myself , but it 's too late now . |
| 19 | The Democratic Platform at a conference on March 18-19 had begun discussing whether it should prepare to set up a new political party immediately after the July congress , if its policies were not adopted . |
| 20 | My horse went down a couple of times when we were riding along a shallow river The hooves must 've turned up the mud at the bottom and I 'm sorry but no amount of expert preparation can help you keep cool when a 500lb horse goes down on you . |
| 21 | It must 've taken quite a bit of courage for the girls to have kept their babies . |
| 22 | I can therefore understand why at that awful moment he should seek to summon up a talisman of words , a secret defence against abomination , or perhaps even an excuse in the form of some kind of precedent that a word expresses and so takes the edge of uniqueness off the contemplated evil . |
| 23 | The same is true of the all-important assessment arrangements , where secondary schools must wait to see how the tensions between TGAT and the GCSE boards ( and between Standard Assessment Tasks and school-based assessment ) will finally be resolved . |
| 24 | The Government should consider setting up a scheme to provide top-up money when residents ' families can not provide it themselves . |
| 25 | The trust should consider appointing out the assets to , say , X 's children so at least they have an argument that they ( X 's children ) can have the losses under TCGA 1992 , s71(2) . |
| 26 | Investors who would be badly upset by a further fall of perhaps a tenth in the value of their holdings , if the market turns sour , should consider weeding out a couple more of their holdings . |
| 27 | Given that the group is expected to have made profits for the current year , the net assets will be higher than at the last account date and as the company is being purchased on a multiple of earnings we should consider stripping out the excess assets . |
| 28 | I know I must finish clearing up the lawn , but , before doing so , I decide to telephone Auntie to come over on her bike even though I know it will take her an hour to get here from Hambledown . |
| 29 | I do n't suggest that I think I should keep going on a year by year basis . |
| 30 | But if the majority are still hesitating , some are at last being lured into the market — and more must follow to make even a modest recovery possible . |