Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] be [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | she must 've been holding it in because she did n't wan na wipe her bum with her hand and then you know it just burst out before she could get to the toilet . |
| 2 | Yeah he must 've been following her about . |
| 3 | All you must do is leave your pipe unlit in the house . ’ |
| 4 | What we must do is appoint ourselves as our own coach since , as we mentioned earlier , ultimately we teach ourselves . |
| 5 | What the court must do is place itself in thought in the same factual matrix as that of the parties ( Reardon Smith Line Ltd v Hansen-Tangen [ 1976 ] 3 All ER 570 ) . |
| 6 | The first thing the three must do is disentangle themselves from the past . |
| 7 | What we must do is see what the problems are from the owner 's point of view and analyse exactly what is going on . |
| 8 | Er or are there is there , are there a couple of schools of thought on this particular subject , well essentially what you must do is write something about everything you know , about erm that this particular sort of concept , do n't write everything you know on this particular subject , like you have only got fifteen minutes . |
| 9 | The very least he must do is to swallow his pride and seek advice and help from fellow English managers at the highest level . |
| 10 | You can advise them whether they decide your advice that 's fine , but what you must do is get them to s , you must write it on the plan your future document , the advice you gave , what plan you decided to do , and I would actually get him to initial it as well . |
| 11 | What you must do is tense your neck muscles to relieve the pressure and then hurt your attacker so quickly and painfully that he will loosen his grip , allowing you to move and gasp for air — before you smash him and run . |
| 12 | What you must do is help him forget ; plunge him in business as your father would have done ; save him from ruining the rest of his life hunting for vengeance . ’ |
| 13 | He said but what you must do is try it , if you can |
| 14 | What I really should do is change my character , and I still could but — it 's difficult . |
| 15 | One context in which it makes a difference is when you refer to a text by page or line number ; different versions are often different in this respect , so the least you should do is tell your reader which edition you are referring to ( which publisher , editor , etc . ) . |
| 16 | What you should do is tag them when they come in . |
| 17 | All it says is if you do buy something from a shop and realize it 's faulty , what you should do is take it back to the shop who sold it to you , together with your receipt if you 've still got it or some other proof of purchase . |
| 18 | Okay , well why not circulate this and what we should do is read it , agree it and then decide which procedures need minor adjustment on the straighter principle . |
| 19 | But the last thing any farmer should attempt is to take his application form along at midday on 15 May . |
| 20 | Then I went to the carers ' meeting [ at the day centre ] and there was somebody there from CAB and they said ‘ You should have been getting it ages ago ’ . |
| 21 | Now several mornings a week when perhaps she should have been concerning herself with the house ( she delegated more and more to the housekeeper , who after all had run everything before she , Lily , had come ) , she would go and sit with Sadie , who was expecting another child at Christmas . |
| 22 | So what we 're saying is really is that the defi definition and the role of local government should have been debated I think from starters . |
| 23 | Perhaps he should have been expecting her question . |
| 24 | I think the police should have been to see her within hours and not waited four years to see her . ’ |
| 25 | A padlock was where the laces should have been to stop anyone taking them off when alone in the middle of the corridor . |
| 26 | Well , both of them should have been wearing their life jackets before they were over water , and X should not have stowed the dinghy in the locker area when he could have kept it closer to hand on one of the spare rear seats . |
| 27 | He was ever anxious about the weather and , when he could think of nothing else to be anxious about , he became worried that he must have forgotten something important that should have been causing him worry . |
| 28 | What had gone awry , that he should have been led to this pass , and even now he felt himself following , perforce , the twists of his fortune , headlong as a fall , when he should have been steering his own course and bearing them strongly with him ? |
| 29 | A SENIOR police officer has admitted a town 's nightclubs should have been warned they would have to close early when the clocks went forward on Saturday . |
| 30 | He got that way , if he was n't drunk on the days he should have been summonsed they used to trip him up . |