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

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1 , should keep should keep it growing really long so when you go a bit thin , just grease it over like this
2 These things do n't really lose their snap and savour without smoking , but thinking that they might do can distract one from enjoying them properly .
3 Erm what day you wa me and Geoff 'll take will take your erm
4 You know the sort of thing : There once was a would be MP Who said if you do n't vote for me I 'll scream and I 'll shout Might knock myself out And probably fall into the sea .
5 Nothing Jake might say could upset her any more .
6 And nothing she could think could raise her arm
7 The centurion … commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea and get to land .
8 And nothing I could do would stop it . ’
9 And nothing I could do would hold them apart …
10 Nothing Mr Landor could do could touch her any longer — she could endure rages , witness violence and not flicker an eyelid .
11 She knew that nothing she could say would change his mind .
12 And nothing he could say would make her forget them .
13 She would not return to you because you believed her to be a fallen woman , and nothing she could say would convince you otherwise . ’
14 The things they could learn could damage their nature in its essence .
15 The affirmative he knew would follow would help him in the discussion this evening with the Prince of Wales .
16 After fornication with a woman then the one who would join would show his love of the Unholy by taking a child and killing it .
17 If I put that aside I would say let's put you on erm postal wallets .
18 The form that the argument in our research will take will show us how to use our hypotheses .
19 Let's say let's make it erm one square going up there is ten miles .
20 okay let's say let's say we 're looking at carbonates
21 Let's say let's say we want to make
22 Well let's say let's say we 've got a fixed pressure now , we 're not going to mess about with the height of the water , it 's a constant hundred feet or so .
23 Erm here y'are we 've got a lad with a kite it 's fixed on the ground well let's say let's say it 's fixed on the ground first of all and erm we 're trying to find out how high it is and it 's directly over this point which is erm and we do n't we do n't know .
24 let's say let's say I just gave it to you like that .
25 But but but if you write the formula down let's say let's say you get it all wrong and I say , What happens if you have an acid and an alkali ? and you say , Well I know they all give a salt so that 's a safe bet , so I 'll say they give a salt .
26 Now let's say let's say your mum came in and she said how many for this pizza and we said oh just the three of us and she cut it cut it up into three pieces three pieces all the same size .
27 We you you 've got let's say let's say there 's your third you 've got your third .
28 Sometimes the fact that you are doing something concrete to help someone with whom you can empathise can help you to forget your own personal misgivings .
29 On the other hand , can you see if coordination gets er deteriorates in any way you 're going to be cut off from an awful lot of things you now , you might have been marvellous at embroidery , it gave you a lot of satisfaction but if your co coordination starts to go then the quality of what you can do will satisfy you , will dissatisfy you , make you feel annoyed .
30 I mean that 's the sort of thing if the press decides that somebody 's not a good thing , then that person is not a good thing and almost nothing he or she can do can change it .
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