Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 67 ) I should like to see them dare say a word against me . |
| 2 | We are improving what the employment service has to offer in the new integrated offices , as all hon. Members who have been to see them will know . |
| 3 | I said you and I were man and wife , and to lose me would break or damage your bond with the King . |
| 4 | Adding five examples to the chapters that at present lack them would kill two birds with one stone . |
| 5 | Those totems were my warning shot ; anybody who set foot on the island after seeing them should know what to expect . |
| 6 | I mean nothing could catch my imagination fantasy . |
| 7 | Gandhi was right : for the caste system to go everyone must clean latrines , and Untouchables must be seen as Harijans , Children of God . |
| 8 | Handling and using them may give a sense of the past . |
| 9 | For the next sale , a wider range of firms will be eligible to establish shops and applicants using them will have preference in allocations if there is heavy demand . |
| 10 | John Selwyn Gummer , Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food There is no point in producing a list of microwave ovens without giving the detailed instructions so that those using them can improve their performance . |
| 11 | Merit goods ( bads ) are goods that society thinks everyone ought to have ( ought not to have ) regardless of whether they are wanted by each individual . |
| 12 | Hence a hereditary mechanism which transmitted them would result in continued degeneration . |
| 13 | I mean them let's face it one out the three of us should of thought a bit more . |
| 14 | I think they burn very easy Do you think everyone will dress up today ? |
| 15 | So would you like to just read what you 've written there so that , because I do n't think everyone can see , and I think this is |
| 16 | There is a mistaken notion that if the five declared nuclear powers ( America , the Soviet Union , Britain , France and China ) gave up testing weapons , other countries now trying to acquire them would stop . |
| 17 | Although losses may be equal , the side that is the better able to sustain them will derive most benefit from any encounter . |
| 18 | The community church started in a home and to wear them would have been distinctly odd . |
| 19 | These are often a combination of personal and peer-group interests ; and pursuing them can lead to the development of a wide range of knowledge and skills . |
| 20 | These are sentences such that everyone who understands them will agree on their truth value no matter what the circumstances . |
| 21 | Well they 're some of the best in the land , greyhound punters , I mean they 'll come they like their greyhound racing , real erm diehard people and erm they 'll come in any weather , I mean , the other Thursday when we really had a load of snow down , I mean no-one would come , you would n't even get off your couch for that , but erm we still had three hundred people attend which was erm even though as I say , we lost money on the erm meeting . |
| 22 | ‘ If you were n't already so bruised and battered I 'd turn you over my knee and make sure you had nothing to laugh about . ’ |
| 23 | I had few friends , just one or two left over from school , but on the infrequent occasions when we met I could see from their faces that they pitied me , finding me foolish and Syl a bore . |
| 24 | I realized I would get no help from the Treasury and , indeed , I suspected that they could not understand why the department was wasting its time on this issue at all . |
| 25 | I realized I would need to convince them at the first opportunity that I was primarily a practical policeman and not an academic ; and I also noted that while the college was keen to list the academic qualifications of those on the course , the participants quickly justified Lewis 's assertions by playing them down to emphasize their history of praxis and practical mastery . |
| 26 | I just made the whole bed and then realized I 'd put it on the wrong way . |
| 27 | Anyway I realized I 'd have missed you at the Club , so I turned round and set off back . |
| 28 | I knew it was n't going to be easy , as it was so very much his world , but I realized I must do it soon , because the longer I delayed , the longer I felt I would go on doing so — like facing up to the ashes . |
| 29 | They sent me to Cambridge for a couple of terms — that 's where I first realized I must run — I do n't want to blaspheme about one of your famous institutions so I sha n't tell you the name of my college though you 're longing to know — the girls in their bed-sitters , the cocoa-drinking , the tittle-tattle , the atmosphere of heartiness or domesticity in the combination-room — But , my dear , it must be getting late and here I am telling you things that you know as well as I do . ’ |
| 30 | So I realized I could do an act based on what it is like to be me . |