Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [verb] it " in BNC.

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1 I mean them let's face it one out the three of us should of thought a bit more .
2 Present , if not correct , were a tired but not too emotional Tony , sorry ANTHONY H WILSON and various members of the INSPIRAL CARPETS whom let's face it , would go to a party held in an empty crisp packet .
3 Whenever an instruction starts with the words ‘ Let's all ’ everyone MUST do it .
4 Everyone must admire it as a supreme example of the unremitting development of one basic situation , Iago 's destruction of Othello , with a claustrophilic refusal to digress or vary from its path , yet no one is known to have enjoyed it .
5 One of them must do it . ’
6 It was a good thing to do , everyone should try it once in a while .
7 It is so simple that everyone should understand it .
8 They pecked at some dead creature on the moorland verge , squabbling over which of them should have it , wheeling and darting at each other like terrible shadows in the mist .
9 Well whatever it , I would like to do after this , my discussion with them on Thursday I may bring it down I do n't know what way , what they 're going to throw in cos I wo n't be
10 But I did n't mean it then , and who knows , I may mean it now .
11 Yes , in Vienna , a lady , I will not say her name but assure you that any conversation I had with poor little Mrs Crump was most decidedly not on this subject and not about this lady — she has clearly clutched at a reference and taken it for a confidence — in Vienna , this lady of , I may admit it , royal connection , formed an attachment for me which was not reciprocated but proved most difficult to disengage .
12 If I sit here alone I may reach it yet . "
13 I shall not be gratified for a benefit , although I may return it in the hope of future benefits ; similarly I shall not avenge injuries except as a deterrent to future injuries .
14 I may believe it is possible that the dead Giselle really did communicate with Alberic , but that in fact she did not .
15 ‘ Frank , kindly remove your hand or I may remove it myself .
16 If I may broaden it away from erm the Cardinal Newman School and think probably of a lot of East Sussex Comprehensive Schools , I think we have all been , in the schools , in the last few years , working hard to establish this openness , and I think that the closed concept of the school , the school that locks children out at break or locks children out at dinner time , which only allows parents to come in for a phoney Open Day when there are a few children there , they are things largely , I think , of the past and they are the closed society .
17 I wish I may see it ! ’
18 If the house was above the road , it came from it , and cross 'd the way to run to another ; if the house was below us , it cross 'd us from some other distant house above it , and at every considerable house was a manufactory or work-house , and as they could not do their business without water , the little streams were so parted and guided by gutters and pipes , and by turning and dividing the streams , that none of those houses were without a river , if I may call it so , running into and through their work-houses .
19 I will want to come back on the same point that 's just been made , but if before I get to that there are some other points that I think I should make in explanation of the lead we have given , if I may call it that , in putting forward the distribution of the Greater York total .
20 Erm , I 've written it out here if I may read it .
21 For this alone , I may find it in my heart to forgive her .
22 To accept responsibility for a choice , I may judge it sufficient that I was closely attentive to the object before responding in one direction or the other .
23 I may look it , but my condition remains unchanged , ’ the old lady told him frostily , but her bony fingers clung to his .
24 I think I may have it .
25 Much as I may deplore it , for the moment you 're very much my responsibility . ’
26 The Ariadne , if I may put it that way , is a hotbed of super-sensitivity .
27 ROS : A compulsion towards philosophical introspection is his chief characteristic , if I may put it like that .
28 ‘ I have a big turnover in secretaries , if I may put it that way .
29 However , what the hon. Gentleman says is a new one on me , if I may put it as basically as that .
30 And there 's a fascinating article in this , the current edition , the January edition it is now , because they go so far in advance , of She magazine , which says that er , it 's a desperate plight sometimes , when you have people coming for Christmas who fall into several categories like lazy slobs , who do absolutely nothing , and misers , who turn up with a stale box of chocolates , and never take you out for a meal in return for your hospitality , and the amorous couples who er , embarrass you by er , er , noisily retiring to their bedroom , if I may put it that way , and then the guests who turn up in mid-row , and bicker systematically over the whole of the festive period .
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