Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 It may hurt to hear accusing comments like this — for highly-charged emotions are often linked to equally-highly-charged events , or a series of events , from our past .
2 Some older people may want to move to obtain more suitable housing or to be nearer their children or brothers or sisters .
3 The current area may not appear attractive to staff , possibly because of high house prices , and so firms may want to move to help their recruitment or perhaps reduce their staff turnover levels .
4 You may want to continue using drugs , but receive regular support or counselling .
5 You may want to stop using , or go on to substitute drugs .
6 In these cases , we may want to smooth to remove the effect of events which are unique or which are simply not the main trend in which we are interested ; it is good practice to plot the rough as well as the smooth values , to inspect exactly what has been discarded .
7 But it 's important to bear in mind that even if children have left home , they may want to return to stay later on , maybe with partners and grandchildren in tow .
8 You may have a new group for whom you have to work out a syllabus , or you may want to check to see whether a revision session is necessary or not .
9 He may want to get rid of her anyway .
10 Ordinary-quality facing bricks will be ideal for most outdoor walling , but you may want to consider using special-quality bricks in particularly exposed areas .
11 Finally , you will get slightly improved sound insulation as well — although for best results you need an air gap bigger than the 20mm maximum usually found in sealed units , and you may want to consider having secondary acoustic double glazing as well .
12 ‘ They may be sympathetic and may want to try to help , but we know that they treat the symptoms and not the cause . ’
13 With this process of legislation , any changes the ministers may want to make look like concessions to the Opposition .
14 This may include avoiding facing up to the boss at work , avoiding going to a party or social occasion , and man- ; other situations .
15 You may find the patient has little interest in food , so he may need encouraging to eat a little at a time .
16 He may need counselling to overcome the trauma in the future .
17 Sometimes , when much excitement was previously invested in the chase and conquest of courtship , the partners may need to continue to reassure themselves of being able to win love and move from one sexual conquest to another outside the marriage .
18 These people may need to get married — trapped — to prove that they can get out , that divorce is not impossible , to discover that they can influence and do something about the situation .
19 You may need to keep repeating the names of foods and objects to reinforce his awareness , or to recite the order in which a task like cooking or washing up is achieved .
20 If he has severe perceptual problems , for instance , you may need to keep reminding him where his face is by helping him to touch it , or he may keep forgetting to shave or wash the left half of his face .
21 Men too may need to learn to delegate duties both at work and at home .
22 Bloodworm may need treating to avoid disease problems .
23 ( 11 ) Where the bidder proposes to issue consideration shares , loan stock or debenture stock which are to be listed it may need to prepare listing particulars ( see para 17.1.3 below ) .
24 What I ca n't understand , though , is why the British should want to get involved . ’
25 They reckon he should 've said cut it down to about two or three , four pints a day , there 's fifteen milligrams of valium .
26 I remember a wee boy in the class I was in in the primary school and he got a row he I remember him getting a row from the teacher and he s the teacher said what did you do wrong and he said oh I 've gone and putten putten where I should 've putten put
27 I would therefore argue that even if the discrepancy between girls ' and boys ' performance at the top levels of achievement in mathematics was entirely due to differences in ability ( which I do not believe , but nevertheless should stay as a possible hypothesis ) , there is a strong case for saying that we should act to try to alter the situation .
28 Iraq is a grim model of what kind of thing the next secretary-general should expect to have thrown at him .
29 Such cultural diversity we should expect to find expressed in the structures and institutional life of the churches .
30 No one has stressed the role of the reader , the centrality of the reader , more than Frank Smith ( 1985 , p.49 ) , who says that ‘ Readers must bring meaning to print rather than expect to receive meaning from it ’ .
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