Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] [modal v] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly we could 've or we could accept the status quo and and do what the county council 's suggesting . |
| 2 | Those built by governments seem most commonly to have been placed where they could combine the functions of protecting the local population and housing the official who governed the area . |
| 3 | ‘ I understand it 's hard for the organisers because they have to go where they can find the biggest sponsor . |
| 4 | ‘ I understand it 's hard for the organisers because they have to go where they can find the biggest sponsor . |
| 5 | Among other things , Christopher said Western assistance must be better co-ordinated and targeted where it can have the greatest impact . |
| 6 | Do exactly as I say or I 'll cover the mattress with your brains , understand me ? ’ |
| 7 | I 'm just praying that we can avoid the type of injuries that we got last season . |
| 8 | Please keep praying that I will master the German ways of doing things , that are so different . |
| 9 | Being able to tile or overlap windows within applications is a nice convenience but have you ever wished that you could do the same thing with separate applications on the desktop ? |
| 10 | Old Doc Mac was one of the really great forensic scientists — we started together — but there 's no denying that he 'd let the reins slip a bit in recent years . |
| 11 | They suggest that you should start the training when your pet is still a kitten and get it used to walking on a harness ( not a collar that can be slipped too easily ) and lead . |
| 12 | They suggest that he could become the country 's national president in any strongly reformist administration that might emerge . |
| 13 | They suggest that he could become the country 's national president in any strongly reformist administration that might emerge from the current upheaval . |
| 14 | Although Ramsay proposed that he should lead the decoy party , under the royal standard , Murray insisted that he himself must do that , as was suitable . |
| 15 | Obviously the modern sophisticated reader will know that one can use the highest points in each square of a fine grid or take the heights of points picked at random to provide data . |
| 16 | People would know that I could do the job . |
| 17 | They do n't know that someone will vandalise the elevators and pee on the stairs . |
| 18 | However , as a strategic planning authority , it is through the Structure Plan process that it can influence the protection of natural resources such as peat lands , and the opportunity for this will arise in the current review of the Plan which will be available for public consultation in the New Year . |
| 19 | Nisodemus said unto them , Do you doubt that I can stop the power of Order ? ii . |
| 20 | She who could call a lame youth to her and support him with her invisible grace while he laid down his crutches on the steps of her altar , why doubt that she could turn the leaves of a Gospel , and guide a faithful finger to the words her will required ? |
| 21 | He then shouted that he would burn the place down . ’ |
| 22 | According to Goscelin 's account of the translation of the relics of St Mildred from Thanet to St Augustine 's Canterbury , written in the late eleventh century , Cnut went to Canterbury as he was setting out for Rome and promised that he would allow the translation if he returned safely . |
| 23 | The sadness of what is in effect the breakup of the comprehensive system is that it occurs at the point when the system was reaching a confidence and maturity which demonstrated that it could meet the demands of the late twentieth century . |
| 24 | Prison reformers have been slow to adapt to prison realities , and to accept that they must address the wider canvas of the criminal justice process . |
| 25 | It was gratifying to know that she could feel the same as him . |
| 26 | Of course , you can always do more but it is encouraging to know that you can reap the benefits of exercise in just ninety minutes a week . |
| 27 | It pleased me immeasurably to know that he could sense the difference now , the promise of fulfilment , which would be the sweeter , it seemed to me , for having been so long deferred . |
| 28 | The child needs to know that he can win the heart of his parents , but also that such feelings can be handled safely . |
| 29 | It may well then be valuable for the beneficiary of a trust to know that he can obtain the property intended for him if he sues and prevails in cognitio against the trustee . |
| 30 | The King was , in a sense , the guardian of this agreement , and it might have been expected that he would remind the party leaders of it . |