Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [modal v] be [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that he would check my eyes , but that if there was a problem and a replacement was needed the best he could do would be to charge me half-price of £50 for the new set . |
| 2 | All that he could do would be to advise him strongly against resigning , and , as he had done when attempting to dissuade him from dissolving Parliament , back up his advice with a formal protest , allowing Baldwin to tell his colleagues that the King objected to the course he was taking . |
| 3 | I 've done nothing to deserve all your vicious insinuations — neither with Richard , nor with Adam , and if you ca n't bring yourself to believe in me the least you could do would be to grant them some scrap of integrity . ’ |
| 4 | I can imagine when you did it Daniel you 'd like would be recording you and Honey having a conversation , forget it was on , start having a shag , yeah , and then like get this tape of you and Honey having sex What ? |
| 5 | What Teller hopes the West will do will be to develop its inter-dependence , eradicate secrecy between its constituent parts so the defence and the knowledge thereto is shared , and behind its nuclear shield build up a society that will prove the point about the superiority of its system . |