Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if you are a very small business or taking on domestic staff you should write a job specification , although you may prefer to make it a more informal list of everything the job entails . |
| 2 | ‘ If Carnelian leaves Stalinvast , ’ Jaq said bluntly , ‘ we may need to take you a vast distance . ’ |
| 3 | I loved him ; what more natural than that I should want to give him the chance to love me back ? |
| 4 | PAMELA : Sir , I am so well satisfied with Mr. Belville 's affection for me and his well-known honour that I can not think myself obliged to any gentleman who should endeavour to give me a less opinion of either . |
| 5 | ‘ The Prime Minister must make known what the Government 's plans are . |
| 6 | There is no more natural monopoly than the public utility of water supply and it is obscene that anyone should seek to make it the instrument of private advantage . |
| 7 | They really should give give you a magazine article itself about the Tay Bridge . |
| 8 | For my purpose I should like to call him the man in the jury box , for the moral judgement of society must be something about which any twelve men or women drawn at random might after discussion be expected to be unanimous . |
| 9 | Well , having had to avail ourselves of the help of the officer who got rid of our gigantic wasp nest , I should like to say what a superb job they do , but I just wondered in view of the tremendous number , whether there is some kind of way of preventions . |
| 10 | I should like to ask her a few questions , such as what she really feels about the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) . |
| 11 | If we can put all this point-scoring to one side , I should like to ask him a question concerning several thousand of my constituents . |
| 12 | The Cathedral could be got into at any time by the Bishop 's door , given how unlikely it was that the Bishop in his currently abstracted state should remember to lock it every time he used it . |
| 13 | so er we must remember to buy him a card and something |
| 14 | The departure from her old home and her arrival in her new one will be a tremendous double adjustment for her to make , so you should try to give it a sense of occasion . |
| 15 | We should try to make it a significant factor in the dramas we create . |
| 16 | I should have hit him a lot harder in the first place . |
| 17 | Desperation and hunger had addled hir senses : SHe should have guessed what the score would be . |
| 18 | ‘ We should have beaten them a couple of weeks ago when we finished all square and I have every faith in the boys , ’ asserts Nelson , ‘ Since then we went very close against Tipperary and given the self-belief the team now possesses I think we can give a very good account of ourselves on Sunday . ’ |
| 19 | In this Style File ( perhaps we should have called it a Riff File ) we will look at some of his best known parts , as taken from his extremely successful ‘ Reckless ’ and ‘ Waking Up The Neighbours ’ LPs … |
| 20 | The bus stops again at the Kensington Hilton , a hotel so much on the edge of Kensington that had it been built 10 feet to the west , they should have called it the Shepherds Bush Hilton . |
| 21 | They should have called it the charge of the bike brigade . |
| 22 | Should have nabbed him the park though ! |
| 23 | In so doing they will be building on their earlier writing experiences which should have given them a positive view of themselves as writers who are capable of making and receiving meanings using a variety of forms depending on audience and purpose . |
| 24 | Although Mikhailichenko should have given them a 15th-minute lead , Marseille increasingly controlled the game . |
| 25 | Perhaps his teacher should have given him a better word than ‘ tidgy ’ , but they both knew what they meant . |
| 26 | ‘ That she should have given him the letter a week after his arrival . |
| 27 | But if I was integrating a sine , it would have come from a cos and the cos should have given me a minus sine . |
| 28 | The arrival of Deacon Billingsley should have given me the satisfaction that my telephone call had been treated seriously , but I sensed this policeman was not going to offer me any satisfaction at all . |
| 29 | ‘ My God , they should have given me an Oscar . |
| 30 | We should have given her a call . ’ |