Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] it [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one or more of these features is missing from your working life , you should make it known and strive to ensure that management is committed to improving matters . |
| 2 | ‘ I should think it starts when you need a hair of the dog the next morning . ’ |
| 3 | Its lateral line should enable it to survive and eat , but even this may have been affected if it is bumping into things . |
| 4 | The rules make it clear that an individual who can show that his or her claim is distinguishable from the rest of the group must have it heard and he or she will be treated individually . |
| 5 | It looked like something indescribable , but I must admit it smelt and tasted good , and anyway we were all starving and would have eaten a horse . |
| 6 | i it 's , it 's obviously a thing which , if one can possibly avoid it 's a good idea to and erm I must say it helped but it you do n't know what is helping because you know we do n't know what her symptoms are going to be . |
| 7 | ‘ In my defence , I should say it happened before the body was discovered . |
| 8 | So what we 'll do , say in a foursome scenario , is we 'll make it look like they 're switching partners , when really they 're not . ’ |
| 9 | Then he added : ‘ I 'll leave it packed and labelled to the left of the door in the painting shed . |
| 10 | We 'll get it developed and we 've |
| 11 | And that 'll get it sorted and come back up |
| 12 | I 'll get it sorted and I will do it again ! |
| 13 | Rational arguments and the need for money may keep it submerged but from time to time it is so inflamed that it can no longer be suppressed . |
| 14 | I have little doubt , however , that we would live a great deal longer than we do , were it not the case that the same evolutionary changes that make an animal fit when it is young may condemn it to deteriorate when old . |
| 15 | Although on occasion he functioned as leader of the Congress movement , the ascendancy he achieved over it was purely personal , and he could make it seem as though he played with it at will . |
| 16 | She says in Belgium they 'd give it scraps that people did n't want . ’ |
| 17 | There was a good deal of air ahead of him — he could feel it moving and there was a considerable space above his head . |
| 18 | In the light from the glowing pillars they could see it twist and settle slowly as they disturbed it . |
| 19 | He 'd use it to identify and locate all the landmarks which he had stared up at during his exhausting explorations , now seen from a very different perspective ; he knew the names of all the streets where the distant , anonymous towers of the banks and finance companies were sited , having worn himself out many times by walking along them , fascinated by the scenes glimpsed behind their mirrored , darkened or tinted glass windows and walls . |
| 20 | I 'd like to thank and , I 'd like it minuted that I 'd like to thank , our Councillors and County Council Councillors because they are getting the reports in now . |
| 21 | We could test it to see if we get an output , we do n't but we could do , there 's no need because all we have to do in effect is just set the weights of the decoders that are actually coming out . |
| 22 | It was low at first , then we could hear it rising until the whole auditorium was engulfed in gales of laughter at the poor preacher who had been duped by the Mau Maus . |
| 23 | Unthinkable , no government could allow it to continue and expect to survive . |
| 24 | And there was catches on the chair and you used to be ab A lad used to stand there and he used to pull a lever and he used to level these catches and the tubs would run off and then as two ran off he 'd let it go and it would catch the empties you see then . |
| 25 | Yeah I mean the would be very nice if you could get it to go cos it is it is quite acceptable speech . |
| 26 | They used to call it drawing or clipping and scalloping you see . |
| 27 | She would only have to sit still and clever stage lighting would make it appear as though she were naked . |
| 28 | Erm he decided to stage a fire in which it would make it appear as though er this was a result of some sort of erm armed confrontation between law enforcement and his group . |
| 29 | Reuben Haredale 's steward , who murders his master for money , and also the latter 's gardener in circumstances that shall make it seem that the body , when discovered , is that of Rudge himself . |
| 30 | I know that it is there , and if only , if only I can choose the right words , and if only I can tap the exact right source of power , then I shall see it ignite and flare into life . |