Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [pers pn] a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Bowling took no further part in the proceedings , but he may think it a small price to pay for providing one of the turning points in a memorable match . |
| 2 | with my embryo staff around me ; you may think it a little late in the day to check my credentials . |
| 3 | It was as if he were thinking : Since we 're lumbered with this bore , let's throw him a predictable subject and hear his predictable views . |
| 4 | ‘ Right , let's make you a bed on the couch , is it ? |
| 5 | Let's make it a special event . |
| 6 | Let's let's make it a slightly different problem . |
| 7 | Erm let's say a hair dryer is rated at erm er let's make it a telly . |
| 8 | Davidson 's party political position may make him a more objective source than those more closely involved , and he appears to have been in a good position to know what was going on . |
| 9 | Parliament may make it a crime for a Frenchman to smoke on the streets of Paris but he may puff away on the Montparnasse with impunity ( until , that is , he arrives at Dover ) . |
| 10 | that you may make it a condition of the carport roof , that they would put four inches of topsoil and plant grass there . |
| 11 | We may consider it a virtue rather than a vice that we possess and exert the power to live , as it were , outside ourselves . |
| 12 | If we 're able to use it the cold may win us a few days in which to withdraw to bed and grieve gently for ourselves ; if not at least we can weep openly at work , blowing our nose and wiping our eyes , and get a little consideration and sympathy from others for our sad lot . |
| 13 | He sent for Marko and told him , " You must plant me a vineyard and bring me wine from it in seven days . |
| 14 | You must think me a terrible whiner . " |
| 15 | Ianthe promised that she should make her a summer dress and with this managed to get rid of her . |
| 16 | ‘ They should make him a national treasure , ’ said Ian Wright . |
| 17 | He says : ‘ It 's the ideal match up between two men of different styles , which should make it a very , very exciting fight . ’ |
| 18 | Since sexism is unjust you should make it a point to put women in positions where they have a chance to overcome their historic powerlessness . |
| 19 | ‘ Perhaps I should make it a costume party next year . ’ |
| 20 | I never put the case for a timetable motion on the ground that we should make it a permanent feature of our parliamentary procedures . |
| 21 | You should make it a condition of payment that the gang supplies a Polaroid photograph of your father holding the mornings paper on the day the drop is made . |
| 22 | ‘ We are the first England representative team to face the Springboks in 23 years and we must make it a memorable day , one the selectors can not ignore . ’ |
| 23 | In future I must make it a rule never to use those cold , wet , good-for-nothing days for looking at crags . |
| 24 | I think we must make it a positive step forward that this council not only goes forwards to build but it goes forward to use that building and give the firemen of this county the right tools , or firewoman , the firemen and the firewoman of this county the right tools to work with . |
| 25 | Maybe I should buy him a place in the country . |
| 26 | Rather than treating the foreign investor as a rival , we should consider him a valuable helper , for he increases our production and the efficiencies of our business . |
| 27 | If then we have uneasy feelings about modern art , it looks as if Joyce must confirm them a thousandfold . |
| 28 | Law 27 , Penalty Kick states that : ‘ It may be taken by any player of the non-offending team and by any form of kick provided that the kicker , if holding the ball , must propel it out of his hands or , if the ball is on the ground , he must propel it a visible distance from the mark . |
| 29 | ‘ She will , my dear , I promise , but you must give her a chance . |
| 30 | So I must give her a ring this week actually . |