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 . |