Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of them may fall to Labor . |
| 2 | Yet everyone may come into contact with the mentally handicapped at some stage in their lives ; indeed any one of us may be accidentally brain damaged . |
| 3 | She was awakened in the mornings by cocks crowing , and it was so quiet in the evenings it seemed everyone must go to bed before dark . |
| 4 | Yet both of them must come into contact with the same assortment of germs and viruses in their daily lives . |
| 5 | The legacies of these origins have persisted and there has never been agreement on the nature of international affairs , on the proper methods for studying them , or on the range of elements which theories of them must take into account . |
| 6 | In a way , failure to come through with the right steps is deception , because most social interaction is based on expectations of behaviour and to set up expectations and then thwart them must qualify as deception . |
| 7 | All political parties are agreed that everyone should pay towards council services if they can afford it . |
| 8 | Little wonder then that those who seek peace ( that is the absence of violence ) between nations as well as within them should look to law as a means of regulating and reducing the international use of force . |
| 9 | Charlotte then employed every sign that she knew to tell the other fishermen that none of them should put to sea on that day , to no avail . |
| 10 | I may go to bed early and read me books . |
| 11 | When trying to guess where someone went when I missed him at the airport I do not imagine his thoughts , I try to imagine his situation as someone like him would see it , and think ; if he tells me he has just learned he has cancer I may hear in imagination the doctor 's grave voice , but I do not imagine the fear , I feel the chill of it ; if I see him cut his finger I do not imagine the pain as something objective before my ‘ mind 's eye ’ , either I look on as though the knife were cutting through cheese or I incipiently wince . |
| 12 | And I may dine at journey 's end |
| 13 | She is one of several on whose services I may call from time to time . |
| 14 | I may have to nursemaid you , but I 'll be damned if I 'll let you bugger things up for me . ’ |
| 15 | I may agree with sentiment but it pissed me off none the less . |
| 16 | Erm sort of I may deal with sort of solicitors letter , that sort , the , the more complicated legal side , and , and that sort of thing . |
| 17 | I may say without vanity that I 'm rarely mistaken in a boy . |
| 18 | For example if I 'm looking at O-level history , ‘ What sorts of things do you think might be important , or what kinds of evidence do you think I ought to collect , or what issues do you think I ought to take into account ? ’ ’ |
| 19 | Now for example if I 'm looking at O level history , what sort of things do you think might be important , or what kinds of evidence do you think I ought to collect , or what issues do you think I ought to take into account ? ’ . |
| 20 | So I think I ought to forget about dissidency . |
| 21 | It appears contradictory that someone should ask for advice and then reject it . |
| 22 | With my direct pipeline into Rainbow 's thoughts blocked off , I must stoop to guesswork . |
| 23 | In passing sentence , I must bear in mind that , as a result of your client 's ministrations , the unfortunate patient died . ’ |
| 24 | Yes thank you Chairman erm I think important question very similar question I think we 're we 're all wondering whether the changed landscape of West Sussex , the changed use of West Sussex has had any influence on the flooding and as the County Council has pointed out worst amount of rain we 've had for about seventy years or so I think it 's very useful and important er to ask questions an and when this crisis is over we reflect on what we can learn from it , but I must bear in mind that it is first and foremost extraordinary climatic conditions which have caused these problems and that in itself of course might have implications erm the whole of global warming does tend to come to mind when you see what 's happening in Australia as well as what 's happening here erm that 's certainly not anything that agencies great or small can have any control over . |
| 25 | ‘ I must go to bed before I fall asleep here like that child Lewis . |
| 26 | ‘ Sorry , but I must go to work , ’ said the lad . |
| 27 | ‘ Sir John , Benedicta and I must go to Fleet prison . |
| 28 | Of course , by then I was completely on my own and the doctor told me that I must go into hospital this time at Northallerton . |
| 29 | In the meantime I must move in life , though not alive in it . |
| 30 | Er , it 's certainly what happened to me I must admit in fact it 's certainly been the pattern of my life and er I 'm not surprised what thought , Freud thought was a kind of typical er typical pattern . |