Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Scots comic Gregor Fisher — the man behind Rab C. Nesbitt — added : ‘ Lilly may think she 's never been to Scotland , but what about in a previous life ? |
| 2 | ‘ You may think I fell apart and did n't handle myself very well . ’ |
| 3 | There has , however , been very little research which looks directly at this issue and thus at this stage suggestions about the normal levels of memory performance or about the variables which may influence it remain largely speculative . |
| 4 | Anglers may prefer you to pass quietly . |
| 5 | If they 're sick for seven days or less , you may want them to fill in a form saying so . |
| 6 | If your organization is slap-happy it will unnerve candidates and may make them think twice before accepting a job with you . |
| 7 | In such circumstances their use of slang and informal language may make them seem rather stupid in the eyes of others . |
| 8 | So the very fact that she observes her price to be higher than the average price level she was originally expecting may make her adjust upwards her expected average price level . |
| 9 | Fear of losing our grip may make us hang on to jobs for longer than we should , in an attempt to reassure ourselves . |
| 10 | An enjoyable social life at the beginning of June may make you think twice about getting married now , Aquarius ! |
| 11 | Do not cover up aspects of your lifestyle , such as heavy drinking , which you think may make you look less respectable . |
| 12 | He added : ‘ So far we have n't had any response , but the players may consider they have more pressing concerns ! ’ |
| 13 | These will probably be things that they would have kept as a matter of course in their store cupboard in earlier days , but have gradually dropped off their shopping list as they grew older and only had themselves to cook for ; so there is no question of giving them new ideas — only trying to revive old ones , which may tempt them to prepare more varied and nourishing meals to achieve a balanced diet . |
| 14 | You must think I 've just crawled out of my crib ! ’ |
| 15 | In the lift to his floor he thought how odd it was that taking a firm stand should make him feel so bad-tempered . |
| 16 | As at Corbridge , they sometimes resemble rural dwellings , which should make us look again at some of the larger houses which occasionally occur in small towns further south . |
| 17 | The fact that several provincial towns reported pope-burnings in November 1714 and 1715 should make us question how extensive support for the Jacobite position was at this time . |
| 18 | She tried however to pin her thoughts on other matters and , recalling that Ven had only returned to Mariánské Láznë in order to pick up some papers , she realised that , since they were important enough for him to make the four-hour return journey , he must want them to hand over to someone else . |
| 19 | And we must make it pay as much as we can . |
| 20 | Who and how many people we imprison , for how long and in what conditions are questions that politicians and sentencers must answer ; those in the prisons must make it work as well as they can . |
| 21 | And the reason I would come up with would be that it must make you feel stonkingly great . |
| 22 | Having a Stalin for a dad must make you turn out like Gary and Nails . |
| 23 | And the factory where I work I should think we took about fourteen of the men at this factory . |
| 24 | Then I should think you came up here , and that was probably the first time you realised what had happened . |
| 25 | Alice added , rather pathetically , ‘ I do n't see why you should think you mind more about Gran than anyone else . ’ |
| 26 | She had n't told him in the beginning because it was totally unimportant to her — her family was not religious — and then , after they had been married a while and she had discovered he was extremely intolerant about various classes of people — not Jews , in fact , but Negroes and Catholics — she had been afraid to tell him in case he should think she had deliberately concealed her origins because she had not trusted him . |
| 27 | ‘ She is tall and fair and fair-skinned , a nice green dress , good-looking I should say , although it was artificial light and I should think she looks very different in the day time … yes , I should think very different . |
| 28 | I should think it measured about two yards . |
| 29 | ‘ I should think he looked around for something heavy that would take glue , and with all that junk lying around there was bound to be something . |
| 30 | Well I should think he 's now got wo one red I should think . |