Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am sure that the House wished to join him in sending its sympathy to the many victims , some of whom may have suffered irreparable damage . |
| 2 | Some of them may have become bottom living , crawling hunters for which a gastropod-like shell would have been more appropriate . |
| 3 | I may want to recognize this pattern as well as that pattern . |
| 4 | I certainly do n't prefer the figurative though I may have lent this way at one time . |
| 5 | I may have seen many Garter Snakes on sale which I took to be pattern variations on the species most commonly available . |
| 6 | We flew economy — I may have to make this trip regularly if Stanford accept me , and my insurance does n't cover me , so every penny counts . |
| 7 | Well research suggests that something like eighty eight percent , that 's research by Klaus and Bass , Klaus and Bass nineteen eighty-eight , actually I may have got that date wrong so I 'm not sure you should quote the date , anyway it 's Klaus and Bass . |
| 8 | My period comes every month , so I think I may have caught some illness from my husband . |
| 9 | But I must have missed that film . |
| 10 | Yet I must have conveyed some uneasiness to my parents . |
| 11 | I must have passed that florist 's in Rumsey Road several hundred times and never really looked at it , let alone into it . |
| 12 | I must have chosen this day to have gone and met this man . |
| 13 | I must have thought this morning . |
| 14 | No doubt it will transpire that I must have known this Paykhull . ’ |
| 15 | did I have another conversation , Jess and Lucy so I must have had another conversation with you last night then Jess |
| 16 | Oh I must remember to take that film out Is that the finish of it total ? |
| 17 | I must remember to get some oil for you Peter ? |
| 18 | ‘ I must remember to get some Number Eights , ’ he muttered to himself . |
| 19 | ‘ How I should love to do that rockery for you ! ’ she said sadly . |
| 20 | But in conclusion I should like to emphasise that Christianity places emphasis not only on structures but also on personal obedience . |
| 21 | I should like to take this opportunity to thank the vast majority of our shareholders who have clearly recognized Palatine 's potential and have remained unimpressed by the attempted takeover . |
| 22 | I should like to take this opportunity to emphasise that the work on the Iraqi material is being done for the United Nations and the IAEA . |
| 23 | I should like to take this opportunity to thank all the employees of Johnson Matthey for the skilled and dedicated service that resulted in this year 's record performance |
| 24 | I should like to see more control over the Commission , and its executive being checked . |
| 25 | Occasionally , when he came back to Cambridge in later years , and especially when he came back to help the university elect another professor of divinity , he would be nostalgic , and say , ‘ I should like to have another go at being regius professor , . |
| 26 | The institutionalisation of the social services is an interesting study in its own right , especially for Tories , who are the connoisseurs of institutions , and I should like to offer some case histories . |
| 27 | I should like to know this time before the horse-boys do . ’ |
| 28 | I should like to consider that argument in some detail , but time does not permit it . |
| 29 | I should like to pursue this argument through the use of Benjamin 's conceptual framework in the analysis of postmodernist cultural forms . |
| 30 | I think it makes sense that Herta and I should get to know each other in this way . |