Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [v-ing] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dorigo and Kelly got caught out many times on Saturday , the central defenders are suspect , so the full-backs should be helping them not leaving them more exposed . |
| 2 | Though it hardly seems possible , spring-flowering bulbs are on sale again , and if we want to bring some winter cheer to the home we should be planting them now . |
| 3 | Surely the Conservative Government have already set out proposals for such a programme : they should be telling him where the money would come from . |
| 4 | He should be hearing something soon should n't he ? |
| 5 | ‘ I should be taking you on at a week 's notice . |
| 6 | So cos I said to Lynn as I said what I 'll do , I 'll go slow then one of you 'll have to put it out cos there 'll be so much work to wrap up I should be taking it home with me to do it . |
| 7 | Your body should be getting itself back to normal soon . ’ |
| 8 | But if it 's something , you know , more serious than then the the client should be aware from you , that they should be ringing you up at this stage . |
| 9 | ‘ And as far as the mentally handicapped people go I do n't believe we should be throwing them out on the streets . ’ |
| 10 | No , I think that all women in all jobs , and particularly in professional jobs , have this problem that at a time when you should be doing your perhaps your most original work , building up your reputation , then you 're also tied up with problems of looking after children . |
| 11 | During that time , you and the other members of staff should be observing them closely , in particular : |
| 12 | They 've lost four times and they should be asking themselves why . |
| 13 | When I went to the antenatal clinic for my very first check-up , this elderly doctor burst through the door , looked at me and said , " You should n't be having this baby , you should be giving it away to somebody less fortunate . " |
| 14 | ‘ You should be making it more difficult . ’ |
| 15 | If the Secretary of State for Wales is indeed going to say anything new tomorrow , surely he should be saying it here . |
| 16 | And not I should n't be here I really do n't know what I should be saying I really have n't got as much knowledge as everybody else that does n't matter , if you 're in a group it does n't matter what you know and what you do n't know there 's still things going on within that group that you can contribute |
| 17 | She found it obnoxious that her son permitted himself a living relationship when , like her , he should be occupying himself exclusively with a dead one . |
| 18 | I should be having it anyway |
| 19 | So , I mean to me , I do n't know whether I 'm right , but that my first thought is that they must be buying it very |
| 20 | they must be buying it very cheap then ? |
| 21 | ‘ The nurses must be feeding him right now , I think . ’ |
| 22 | One publication that must be wishing it too had resisted the lure is World , the furry animal/environment magazine now in the BBC 's stable . |
| 23 | ‘ They must be gating us in . ’ |
| 24 | She must be seeing him off . |
| 25 | If so , she must be kicking herself now ! |
| 26 | They believe that reality ‘ points beyond itself ’ in the sort of way that the pile of books points beyond itself , in that we know something must be holding it up or it would fall . |
| 27 | Repeat bookings account for 73 per cent of holidays sold , so Benidorm must be doing something right . |
| 28 | ‘ Over the last three years our sales have quadrupled so we must be doing something right . |
| 29 | ‘ But we 've come away with two victories — so we must be doing something right . |
| 30 | Still , he gets to shoot loadsa bad guys and snogs all the girlies , so he must be doing something right . |