Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | 4 to 5 is relatively easy and if someone starts off at 5 they do n't need any persuading at all ( attempts to persuade them may irritate them so much that they start to move to the left ! ) . |
| 2 | Tall claustrophobics wo n't like the hotel 's narrow passageways , uneven floors , low ceilings and even lower beams , but everyone should love them . |
| 3 | Anyone finding them should hand them in at a police station or to any officer he said . |
| 4 | Mick and me must drive them all there . |
| 5 | Just as he did earlier in the chapter , he warns Moses and Aaron to ‘ Get away from the midst of this congregation , that I may consume them in a moment . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I would have had no objection to telling them the position , in all honesty we could have done that and I may give them advance warning next year . ’ |
| 7 | I did n't ring your family with the sole intention of provoking another of your temper tantrums , however entertaining I may find them . |
| 8 | so I may touch them |
| 9 | I may lose them and that would be terrible ! |
| 10 | I may use them on Mrs occasionally . |
| 11 | If you have any other items you wish to raise at the meeting , please advise me beforehand so that I may include them on the agenda . |
| 12 | ‘ But my feelings are different , if I may state them . |
| 13 | In fact I 'll give my neighbours who live opposite , I do n't see a lot of them but they they are my opposite neighbours and of course the 's really I 'm on good terms with I ought to give them I 'll get them a tin of biscuits as well . |
| 14 | Though what I am trying to do is just explore all these possible lines of thoughts erm in a political way , alright , but they do n't work out neatly and these critics got quite excited about so I thought I ought to point them out to you but you 're quite right in pointing out that they do n't work out neatly , O K. So we 've got to , where have we got to with George ? |
| 15 | Because it said on the packet you 'll plant them immediately after buying and we do n't know when Aunty Gwen bought them and it might rain tomorrow as well , I think I ought to put them in while it 's fine , now |
| 16 | Do you think I ought to thank them ? |
| 17 | ‘ I ought to throw them in the bin , ’ she told herself tetchily , casting one final plaintive glance in the direction of the telephone . |
| 18 | Started chucking names around , made me feel I ought to read them . |
| 19 | ‘ I suppose I mean that I do n't think I ought to have them . ’ |
| 20 | We should sa , say , someone should sit them down and poin , point out the facts to you , like fucking wise up ! |
| 21 | Well , someone should hurt them back . |
| 22 | ‘ Someone should teach them how to be gracious , how to accept compliments prettily , how never to wear a grey suit to a party however bored one is with designing clothes . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Someone should read them — ’ said Maud . |
| 24 | ‘ Bring them into the kitchen , please , ’ she said , her hands clasped tightly together , ‘ I must tell them all the bad news personally . ’ |
| 25 | It is these conclusions and that reasoning which Mr. McGregor has attacked and I must reconsider them . |
| 26 | I must cover them up . ’ ) |
| 27 | He paused , frowning while staring ahead at some of the other riders , then he said , ‘ Excuse me — I must stop them from taking the wrong track . ’ |
| 28 | I must do them now and then it 's out of the way cos you and I want to see Emmerdale at seven . |
| 29 | I must bring them , I must bring a couple |
| 30 | I must meet them again , fight with them , be rejoined with them . |