Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must 've taken quite a bit of courage for the girls to have kept their babies . |
| 2 | But if the majority are still hesitating , some are at last being lured into the market — and more must follow to make even a modest recovery possible . |
| 3 | I should like to pay just a small tribute to three of my youngest class members . |
| 4 | " He should have done so a long time ago . |
| 5 | In the face of the dreadful attacks on police officers , the Home Office should have put together an urgent review team which should have incorporated other Departments and put forward a package of measures . |
| 6 | ‘ We should have got together a long time ago , when I was n't an old man . ’ |
| 7 | We must have made quite a sight trailing along the road with scythes , rakes , forks , the sledge and the sweep , mowing machine , and our food in a basket . |
| 8 | TREVOR FRANCIS 'S celebration can of Coke must have tasted just a little sweeter last night . |
| 9 | I enjoyed it in a way , but B. was very impossible — she must have drunk nearly a bottle of brandy , and then at 9 o'clock I left and refused either to stay any longer or spend the night there . |
| 10 | It was the shock I suppose and the wine — I must have drunk almost a bottle . |
| 11 | Surely even the most stalwart art lover must have trembled just a little when , earlier this summer , in conjunction with the four exhibitions organised by the Whitechapel Gallery ( featuring 200-odd works ) and over 900 artists — 58 groups in 53 locations — opened their studios to the public . |
| 12 | ‘ You must have acquired quite a taste for French champagne and pâté de foie gras . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You must have had quite a talk ! ’ smiled Belinda . |
| 14 | ‘ people who knew him very well must have had quite a hard time with him , he was so depressed . |
| 15 | Mr le Gros , who sang a serenade filled with double entendres to his fickle mistress in the Ballet des plaisirs , must have had quite a high voice since he was normally assigned parts notated in either alto clef ( C3 , the usual clef for the high tenor voice known as the haute-contre ) |
| 16 | The transformation of David ( David Naughton ) from nice New York Jewish boy to very scary werewolf is an outstanding achievement , with elaborate props and each stage exactly plotted and , despite a team of 30 stuntpersons , Naughton must have acted quite a lot of this himself . |
| 17 | The England coach , who is also assistant to Ian McGeechan on the Lions tour to New Zealand this summer , and who has been in Scotland since last Thursday , admitted yesterday that the Scots ' performance against Wales ‘ had been very impressive and must have surprised quite a few people , especially down south ’ . |
| 18 | I wish he would keep his eyes off me , Laura thought grimly , feeling certain that she must have experienced almost a lifetime 's amount of tension over the past few days . |
| 19 | It must have taken quite a lot of pluck to walk along a path marked DANGER . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ They must have got quite a shock seeing a 4lb 6oz bird sunning itself on the garden wall , ’ said Gary . |
| 21 | We must continue to put forward an alternative framework within which British farmers can take commercial decisions over the best way to use their skills and resources , play their part in sustaining our rural economy and the countryside , and compete fairly within Europe . |
| 22 | Once you have established better eating habits , cut out the empty calorie foods , and achieved your target weight by a slow , careful process of calorie control , you should find staying there a natural follow-up . |
| 23 | Instead of being taken for granted as a set of explanatory standards which will bolster and enhance our understanding of the social world , individualism may appear to offer only a narrow and distorting lens through which to inspect it . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'll want to catch quite an early train from Liverpool Street . |
| 25 | About nine o'clock , you 'll need to bring about a quarter of a bag |
| 26 | As an example an exporter might decide to quote today a price to a German importer and the price to be quoted is DM100 000 for the consignment of goods in question . |
| 27 | You 'll have heard already a whole range of opinion on their validity and usefulness . |
| 28 | ‘ You 'll have to wait just a little while , Monsieur Gravellier , ’ one had said . |
| 29 | Daddy 'll have to come home a bit early to have it done . |
| 30 | Yeah , you 'll have to come home a bit er , a bit er |