Example sentences of "[vb mod] [pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why should I bother to keep rabbits in hutches ? |
| 2 | ‘ The first person I would phone should I wish to sign Davies would be the Widnes chairman Jim Mills and I have never done so . ’ |
| 3 | Should I try to split Mark and Kevin up and risk the confrontation that might result ? |
| 4 | No , I rang up to say the car should be out on Monday should I like to say Wednesday , no problem . |
| 5 | Should you want to escape reality for a while , £12 would buy you the skills of a trained , uniformed chauffeur for an hour . |
| 6 | Where should you go to get pensions advice ? |
| 7 | Should you wish to paint hardwood for the first time , it will be necessary to coat it with an aluminium primer . |
| 8 | Should you wish to give theatre tickets as a present , please enquire at The Box Office , Playhouse Gift Vouchers are available from as little as £1 . |
| 9 | Should you wish to make contact with the Department its address is Department of Transport , Driver and Vehicle Licensing Centre , Longview Road , Swansea , SA6 7JL . |
| 10 | ‘ And should you wish to play tourist , then on the hall table you will find all sorts of literature on things to see and do in the area . |
| 11 | Should she offer to have Miss Grimes in her house ? she wondered in a rush of wild impractical nobility . |
| 12 | Did I think it would be a wise move or should she try to persuade Meredith to keep her on for Christmas ? |
| 13 | I would not fancy Mrs Izzard 's chances very much should she happen to meet Miss Murphy on some foreign back-track : she would get an earful . |
| 14 | " And should she wish to see me. ? " |
| 15 | And … — but you try : why should we continue to make fools of ourselves ! |
| 16 | Nor , if we are willing to see our co-operative selves as other co-operators see us , should we fail to note Signor Prandini 's implied criticism , pointed though polite , of the British concept of Co-operation as restricted almost exclusively to the Consumers ' Movement . |
| 17 | The union and its unionist parties are a part of our history , we too shall become part of history , largely forgotten in a ‘ United Ireland ’ should we fail to achieve Nationhood and break the chains of Westminster mis-rule and Eire Imperialism . |
| 18 | But there is one further issue to be addressed : what index should we use to measure decline ? |
| 19 | Can we or should we attempt to teach turn-taking ? |
| 20 | This is the only contract we will have with our client should we have to pursue payment via legal means . |
| 21 | A South African foreign affairs spokesman said on Jan. 5 that there had been contacts with Soviet representatives on a regular basis , " for example on the Namibian issue " , and " should we wish to pursue talks we would do so directly " , with no need for Hungarian or any other mediation . |
| 22 | The administrators rely on threats of dire consequences for the firm as a whole but generally are more committed to the firm ( having weak professional institutes — if any ) and are less marketable should they want to change jobs . |
| 23 | Then , as he frequently did , he took a moral line , based on what he saw as natural law , and said he would not blame , and might even assist , the victim 's relatives in such a case , should they wish to exact retribution and then hide . |
| 24 | This type of Credit is particularly popular in America where it is used ‘ to guarantee payments to shareholders in leveraged buy-outs , to receive reimbursement of the purchase price of a champion thoroughbred should it fail to sire offspring , and to underwrite the obligation of a boxing promoter to deliver the purse to the winner ’ ( Letters of Credit — Euromoney Publications ) . |
| 25 | Should the media gain control ( i.e. should it begin to make Morrissey believe all he reads ) then the man may be in danger of losing all to complete blandness , and possibly worse . |
| 26 | Perhaps it is right that the official institutions of a community should express moral judgements on behalf of its law-abiding members — but why should it have to take form of punishment ? |
| 27 | ‘ Why should he want to send Hepzibah biscuits ? ’ she said to Nick as they plodded through the deep snow at the side of the railway line , but he had n't felt it was sinister . |
| 28 | In this cake-and-eat-it arrangement , no one possessor could sell off the estate , yet in Johnson 's view , the landowner should have enough over and above the inheritance to bargain with , should he need to raise cash by sale or mortgage , but never so much as to disinherit his succeeding generations . |
| 29 | ‘ That you can stay on at Sleet as long as you like , but with the new owner , should he wish to take residence there . |
| 30 | Conversely , a long period may restrict the purchaser should he wish to make changes to the vendor management team ( either because they do not live up to first impressions or because he wishes to promote them within the enlarged group ) . |