Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each meeting ends with the moneymen all saying things like I 'm in or I want in on this or You got it or Let's do it . |
| 2 | that 's something else which you might find , a lot of the time in er literature about interaction with children , you might find that er where parents are asking their children to do something , like if they 're playing a game , you might find some You 'll find that mothers and fathers talk differently to sons and daughters er so you start off with a direct ac action like Put that one there , if they 're playing lego or something , straight prom Put that on there down to er Would n't it be a good idea to put that on there down to Could you put that on there or Let's put it on there . |
| 3 | We are a country which is very conscious indeed of history , or let's put it this way , of the past , and the job of the historian is to convert that interest in the past into something which is a little bit more critical , more profound , erm and which will genuinely , I think , provide you with some kind of perspective in which to understand the problems of the present . |
| 4 | Where the application is made to the district judge he may , if in doubt as to the proper order to be made , refer the application to the judge forthwith or at the next convenient opportunity , and the judge may hear the application and make such order as may be just or may refer it back to the district judge with directions . |
| 5 | Sometimes this is no more than a description of what has to be done but sometimes it incorporates how the operator does it or should do it . |
| 6 | One can agree that another has or should have a right , that is , believe that he has or should have it , or agree to give him a right . |
| 7 | Well , that raises the old question — or might raise it , if there was not an answer to it-of Lampleigh v. Brathwait ( above , p. 200 ) , a subject of great interest to every scientific lawyer , as to whether a past service will support a promise . |
| 8 | Consider , he says , that when we speak of the existence of a sensible thing we mean that we are perceiving it by various of our senses , or could perceive it were we suitably placed . |
| 9 | What struck me , however , was how distant the preoccupations of the audience were from those which could capture a majority in modern Britain , or could govern it successfully if that majority were ever won . |
| 10 | Most of this Greg felt he could ignore : either he had read it , or could read it in more convenient circumstances . |
| 11 | Indeed it did , to anybody who remembered or could visual-ise it as a busy dock . |
| 12 | But in ( 5 ) there is no " and then " sense ; and here seems to mean just what the standard truth table for & would have it mean — namely that the whole is true just in case both conjuncts are true ; hence the reversal of the conjuncts in ( 7 ) does not affect the conceptual import at all . |
| 13 | So the first people who made films , the first people who invented the apparatus by means of which they could be made , were relatively simple showmen or photographers , or in certain cases like Edison , erm the , you know a professional inventor , who would use either his staff to develop a piece of apparatus , or would do it himself . |
| 14 | So women you 've sent , have you sent up Avriel 's name or will send it up . |
| 15 | Sometimes insects are disinclined to collect pollen , preferring nectar , or will pack it away in places from which it is not easily dislodged . |
| 16 | Whatever the sufferer or family member may say at times of anger or despair , nobody causes addictive disease or can control it or cure it . |
| 17 | Adultery can arise from problems within the family or can disrupt it . |
| 18 | Children can present data in simple block graphs , pictograms or sets , or can enter it into a computer , using suitable software , to compile their own database . |
| 19 | You know you need some information , resource investigator can either give it to you because he 's got it or can find it for you . |
| 20 | ‘ Applying that test , and bearing in mind that there are persons on the fringes of subversion that may make it difficult to draw the line ’ , the Commissioner has been satisfied that the Home Secretaries ' warrants have always been justified . |
| 21 | Slightly clumsy hard rock that may make it in America later . |
| 22 | Do nothing that may give it a bad name . |
| 23 | Their vision of ‘ the planet being as it were wrapped in telepathic or electronic thought of more and more brains working away ’ seems to her ‘ dangerously like the pollution that may stifle it ’ and ‘ essentially an elitist dream ’ ( 1981:388 ) . |
| 24 | It is only those schools that have been predominantly academic , and independent schools which have seldom tangled with CSE or Mode 3 levels that may find it new . |
| 25 | It is already offering non-IBM peripherals for the DPX/20s , something that may allow it to undercut IBM 's pricing , and intends to add bespoke features to the hardware , such as terminal support , before the end of the year . |
| 26 | ‘ That ought to do it . ’ |
| 27 | Quickly he added one more note : thirty francs , that ought to do it , in the boy 's terms , it was a fortune . |
| 28 | Taken at its first test session at Michelin 's Clermont Ferrand test track , they show the car still under heavy disguise but revealing some of the characteristics that should give it a place among the great supercars . |
| 29 | Is he here that should deliver it ? ’ |
| 30 | Its biggest hit , the Discovery , is now available as an automatic , a fact that should enable it to tap further new business . |