Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Some Conservative members of Parliament would like to retain its principle — that everyone should pay something . |
| 32 | We all recall that in the heyday of the poll tax the one principle that Ministers and Conservative Members were most reluctant to abandon was that everyone should pay something . |
| 33 | She was told that it was the law to pay the full amount and she must pay it in full , and her answer was that it was the law last year that everyone should pay their own bills , and what happened to them ? |
| 34 | The sort of day everyone should have their wedding on . |
| 35 | I think everyone should have one ! |
| 36 | Trudie Sheppard collected her prize from popstar Cliff Richard , who said everyone should follow her example . |
| 37 | It was a good thing to do , everyone should try it once in a while . |
| 38 | I know there is a public perception that everyone should sell their shares at the first opportunity , but I think this could be a big mistake . ’ |
| 39 | It is so simple that everyone should understand it . |
| 40 | No-one should underestimate him . |
| 41 | Anyone finding them should hand them in at a police station or to any officer he said . |
| 42 | They pecked at some dead creature on the moorland verge , squabbling over which of them should have it , wheeling and darting at each other like terrible shadows in the mist . |
| 43 | Those totems were my warning shot ; anybody who set foot on the island after seeing them should know what to expect . |
| 44 | Anxious that nothing should disturb her aunt , Alexandra had the hens moved to a small paddock the far side of the stables so that their greedy shouting for breakfast could not be heard in the house . |
| 45 | Even if their love were to die , nothing should disturb their friendship . |
| 46 | Nothing must stop us now . ’ |
| 47 | She did her best , and bound the stems tightly together with a thread split from a New Zealand flax — nothing must delay her now , or breakfast in the dining room would be over . |
| 48 | ‘ I think all the businessmen sitting around me must think I am mad . |
| 49 | Mick and me must drive them all there . |
| 50 | In fact you said er again if if I may offer you one of your quotes erm , If you have back benchers who wo n't support you , that limits governments abilities to take decisions . |
| 51 | In order to be as free as possible , that my will have the greatest possible range consistent with the similar will of others , it is necessary that there be a way in which I may commit myself … . |
| 52 | Erm and I think I may do one in the middle of there and then leave that s like that . |
| 53 | In our various parties , organizations and institutions therefore we urgently need to recognize that most of our programmes , not least the programmes of our conferences and synods if I may leave you together in sin brothers and sisters |
| 54 | Shakespeare must have thought them common enough : in As You Like It a frustrated Rosalind says , ‘ I prithee , take thy cork out of thy mouth that I may drink thy tidings . ’ |
| 55 | For what 's is worth , as a motorist , I may tell you I 'm thirty years standing , and I explained to the people when I phoned your office up , I 've had thirty years standing as a driver , I check my oil , I check my water , I lost no compression , no water . |
| 56 | I may modify my behaviour to conform to the expectations of the group , and I will do so in a much shorter time than I would in a one-to-one relationship . |
| 57 | I may treat you as a grown-up person , may I not ? |
| 58 | Just as he did earlier in the chapter , he warns Moses and Aaron to ‘ Get away from the midst of this congregation , that I may consume them in a moment . ’ |
| 59 | But then I may fuse my gun … |
| 60 | Well whatever it , I would like to do after this , my discussion with them on Thursday I may bring it down I do n't know what way , what they 're going to throw in cos I wo n't be |