Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [conj] [modal v] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Association needs you and can help you . |
| 2 | Old stopcocks were not made to a standard size and it may take some searching in plumbers ’ merchants to find something that will enable you to connect new copper pipe . |
| 3 | In the long run we still want something that will enable us to stop the resistance completely , ’ she said . |
| 4 | In the wind and rattle sounds I 'd hear her start to cry and put my arm around her and lift her chin and say something that would calm her . |
| 5 | Say something that will get her … interested . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You mean that you do know something that may help them ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ There is nothing I can tell you , Officer , ’ said Iris in her stilted French , ‘ but my friend has something that may interest you . ’ |
| 8 | PC Anderson , a 40-year-old officer with 20 years ' experience , warned her not to report the incident , saying he knew where to find her and could arrest her for soliciting , the court was told . |
| 9 | Amy never smacked him but would jerk him on to her hip and dump him on her bed saying : ‘ Bloody awful noise . ’ |
| 10 | I do not need it and will set it aside for you , my dear boy , to complete your studies . |
| 11 | The old nineteenth-century role of Parliament as a body which chose the government , maintained it and could reject it , which operated as an intermediary between the electorate and the executive , has gone . |
| 12 | Fortunately , and by pure chance , I had said nothing that could lead her to assume that we thought that she was travelling with them — as arranged . ’ |
| 13 | Why do n't you do something that will get you somewhere , Karim ? ’ |
| 14 | They have made it and can help you make It . |
| 15 | She must never ever do anything that might make them fight . |
| 16 | ‘ I still think you 're totally wrong , but I 'd never do anything that could endanger you — or the club . ’ |
| 17 | An important safety rule is never to leave your board unless it is to get into a safety boat , since your board will make it easier for rescuers to see you and will keep you afloat . |
| 18 | Jack Russells are difficult animals to teach to retrieve — I have only had one that would do it properly — but they can be taught to work nets , drive rabbits into nets and to be thoroughly disciplined in all they do . |
| 19 | You know you need some information , resource investigator can either give it to you because he 's got it or can find it for you . |
| 20 | All you can really do is construct something that will divert it or block its way for a while ; persuade it to do something it does n't really want to do . |
| 21 | I hope you 've heard something that 'll make you think , and think positively and perhaps act positively . |
| 22 | Give me ten years and I 'll make something that can do it in twenty . ’ |
| 23 | That heals you and will set you free . |
| 24 | It is also what your collection people , sales people , delivery people and the grapevine tell you or should tell you about your customers . |
| 25 | Plan to do something that will take you out of the house and , perhaps , go for a long walk . |
| 26 | I 'd be lucky ter get anybody that could match 'er in the kitchen . |
| 27 | From the moment of it 's birth , in fact poss er , even before it 's actual birth , not long after it 's conception , now that that babe has a will of it 's own , and it will exercise it and will use it . |
| 28 | It was dangerous , too , to appear too over-confident , or to do anything that might provoke him into making his unofficial fatwa slightly more public than it was already . |
| 29 | ‘ The Government is pinning its hopes for economic recovery on the housing market , so it would n't want to do anything that would snuff it out , ’ said Mike Simpson , Suffolk spokesman for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors . |
| 30 | Service firms produce service products , but manufacturing firms also produce them and may sell them in connection with their goods . |