Example sentences of "[indef pn] [modal v] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever an instruction starts with the words ‘ Let's all ’ everyone MUST do it . |
| 2 | Everyone must admire it as a supreme example of the unremitting development of one basic situation , Iago 's destruction of Othello , with a claustrophilic refusal to digress or vary from its path , yet no one is known to have enjoyed it . |
| 3 | It was a good thing to do , everyone should try it once in a while . |
| 4 | It is so simple that everyone should understand it . |
| 5 | The anonymity guarantee must be supported by an atmosphere of permissiveness in the question , e.g. someone may find it easier to admit that they have broken copyright law when faced with the options . ’ |
| 6 | I hope it will become unrolled and someone may see it . |
| 7 | Bluff , like reason , can also work wonders , but be careful — one day someone may call it . |
| 8 | Perhaps someone should point it out to the Queen , who may think that she will be addressing the Assembly of the Council of Europe . |
| 9 | Someone should dig it out from the carpet under which it was brushed and blow the dust off it . |
| 10 | If , however , the market demands this type of product , then someone must supply it and it is better the consumer buys a product made from organic ingredients in the hope that they will eventually progress onto the unadulterated whole milk yoghurt . |
| 11 | Someone must teach it somewhere . |
| 12 | Someone 'll preserve it , never you fear , |
| 13 | Someone would carve it on an adamantium monument . |
| 14 | He lay in bed , hoping the phone would go away or someone would answer it . |
| 15 | Perhaps if he wrecked the thermostat , someone would think it worth putting a little pressure on their British friends . |
| 16 | Maybe someone would think it was . |
| 17 | He hoped some day someone would play it — if it was worth playing . |
| 18 | He started to smile , teasing me , and for the second time I was convinced that someone would flourish it back to existence , that it was all only a game . |
| 19 | An unidentified spokesman for the V&A was quoted in The Independent newspaper of 16 May , 1992 ( which featured several colour illustrations from the album ) as stating , ‘ We have always said that we could not raise the money to buy it , but would be very happy if someone would buy it and give it to us ’ . |
| 20 | Perhaps someone would see it somewhere some day . |
| 21 | Captain Edward Aloysius Murphy is alleged to have said in 1949 that if a way exists to do a job wrongly , one day someone will do it that way . |
| 22 | On the other hand , there is just the remote possibility that someone will invent it tomorrow . |
| 23 | ‘ If someone will start it [ trouble ] I 'll join in willingly . |
| 24 | ‘ I am desperately sad that our scheme did not come to fruition but I am glad that someone will take it over and bring these jobs to the area . |
| 25 | ‘ This book : if you lose it somewhere , someone will pick it up and return it to you . |
| 26 | I 'm hoping someone will find it worth while having a proper inspection but these things pop up everywhere when the land is so dry . |
| 27 | When Scholes writes that ‘ no text is so trivial as to be outside the bounds of humanistic study ’ , I am reminded of C. S. Lewis 's argument that any piece of writing has a claim to being literary if someone can read it in a ‘ literary ’ — i.e. an absorbed , attentive , loving — fashion . |
| 28 | Loops of wiring and cable ran overhead , loosely tacked at intervals to the unpainted ceiling ; it was the kind of Who cares , no-one 'll see it protocol that had applied behind the scenes in the shopping mall where she 'd landed her first Saturday job . |
| 29 | Well everyone 'll do it , everyone did go home eventually and their wages , cos there was there was two of us , I told you did n't I , there was two of us that worked it out . |
| 30 | I have an idea that there 's this wonderful , amazing painting and everyone 'll love it and I did it , but it 's down a long tunnel somewhere . |