Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [to-vb] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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1 | As for advising someone else who might want to do the same thing as myself , I do n't know what to say . |
2 | Told her I might decide to scrap the whole thing . |
3 | Then , suddenly , humping her shoulders , Sophie said , ‘ Well , we 'll have to do the correct thing and inform them that we 're going to set up here . |
4 | ‘ Could n't we have a second chair ? ’ ventured John Gould , inciting the first major row : ‘ We 'll have to re-think the whole thing ’ says James ‘ we 'll have to go back to the very beginning and re-block it ! ’ |
5 | You 'd want to play the damn thing all the time . |
6 | I 'd like to do the real thing . ’ |
7 | I would like to see the same thing happen to them . ’ |
8 | Daedalus would like to do the same thing for human senses , and DREADCO chemists are now at work on his ‘ contrast-exalting spectacles ’ or ‘ Cexspex ’ ( Regd. ) make of a cunning tinted glass . |
9 | I would like to do the same thing to them |
10 | There are a few like myself , who look as if they wished they were n't there , and would like to get the whole thing over as quickly as possible . |
11 | Or or you would have to take the whole thing off again . |
12 | Even to play with a pick I would have to do the same thing , like Phil Lynott did , whereas to play with my fingers in a heavy metal kind of way , as I normally do , I have to have the bass quite low or else my wrist gets mangled up and I start having problems with tendonitis . |
13 | They 're smart , the place is well maintained , and I think anything we can do to support the general thing there , and certainly the Ottery youth there is , is , is money well spent . |