Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [verb] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But much latelier , in the private academies of Italy , wither I was favoured to resort , perceiving that some trifles which I had in memory , composed at under twenty or thereabouts , for the manner is that everyone must give some proof of his wit a reading there , met with acceptance above what was looked for , and other things which I had shifted in scarcity of books and conveniences to patch up amongst them , were received with written incomience which the Italian is not forward to bestow on men of this side the Alps . |
| 2 | They are the principle of equal liberty , assuring everyone equal measure of an enumerated list of basic liberties ( freedom of expression , religion , etc. ) and the difference principle according to which everyone should enjoy equal allocation of the other primary goods ( i.e. those desirable whatever one 's conception of the good may be , e.g. wealth , income , opportunities , status ) except in so far as deviation from strict equality would improve the prospects of the worst-off group in society . |
| 3 | But a mathematician should be taught to try to take me with him , so that I may have some appreciation of what he is doing , and why he enjoys doing it . |
| 4 | ‘ Thee I invoke , oh our Emperor , ’ he prayed , the formula glowing neon in his mind 's eye , ‘ that thou wilt infuse these cards this hour ; that thereby I may obtain true insight of things hidden , to thy glory and to the salvation of humanity — ’ |
| 5 | ‘ In only the broadest and I may say sloppiest usage of the term would this obsessive little undeadnik be counted as a dybbuk . |
| 6 | He is if I may take this question of the appointment of the independent members , he has certainly separated himself directly from their appointment by having this regional instrument . |
| 7 | It is ridiculous to be vindictive towards a fictional character but I must admit that contemplation of some of the available illnesses was a not altogether unpleasant preliminary to beginning this present work . |
| 8 | I must correct some points of detail in the article . |
| 9 | I must have another glass of tea . ’ |
| 10 | And since I know what the proposition means , I must know each constituent of it . |
| 11 | But I must say this business of bantering is not a duty I feel I can ever discharge with enthusiasm . |
| 12 | If there 's anything embedded in it like gravel or something and it does n't come away easily you must n't , it comes under the categories of what you call foreign bodies , which first aider is not at liberty to poke about , you must leave foreign bodies that do n't come away easily where they are and bandage them round and send them off to hospital or a doctor , but assuming it 's just a little clean graze , if I have n't got a tap to put it under , then I must use little bits of gauze to wash , put in a bowl of water and just wipe , yeah , and you always wipe obviously from the centre of a wound towards the outside , otherwise if you start to wipe across the whole thing you take dirt from one side of the wound across and drop it off in the middle somewhere , so you wipe from the centre out and throw that piece away and you take another piece and wipe from the centre out and so on until you feel happy , quite happy . |
| 13 | ‘ I should carry some sort of health warning , should n't I ? ’ she said wryly . |
| 14 | ‘ I should abandon this farce of a holiday and go home to attend to my business . |
| 15 | He meant , that I should make such fun of him . |
| 16 | I should save that type of language for when I go back to the West Indies . |
| 17 | That is welcome , but I should like that element of the contributions to be kept in line with income tax to minimise compliance costs for employers . |
| 18 | This was surely the coldest and draughtiest station in the country , and I always had to wait there about midnight ; and I used to pray that the train would stop with a door opposite to me , so that I should have some chance of getting on at all . |
| 19 | But perhaps I should add one work of warning : look in the front of such books for the date of publication , be careful if they are at all old . |
| 20 | Moreover , I should warn those present of the risks they expose themselves to under McNab 's treatment … which is , however , not a treatment at all , but a waste of time . |
| 21 | ‘ Maybe one day , if things keep going well for me , I might make that sort of money . |
| 22 | ‘ What makes you think I might possess that kind of information ? ’ |
| 23 | I think I might cut another piece of paper , the side wo n't stay flat . |
| 24 | Chairman I think this is probably the first time in this council chamber in twenty years that er I will probably have spoken on er social services issues er and I speak from an entirely private capacity and any information that er that comes my way is from what I might call informed members of the public erm , people who I come into contact with and from my own experiences as a ward councillor and from as we all do from time to time , my own family experience , my own domestic experiences and I do know something about the problems which are associated with the the care of elderly people er although I do n't have that problem now erm things have taken their course . |
| 25 | ‘ I should imagine that you are worried — worried that I might cause some sort of scene , humiliate you in front of this jetsam . ’ |
| 26 | I have waited a long time before writing to you , hoping all the time that I might hear good news of Leslie from Wendy . |
| 27 | Oh , he said , I expect in a minute the door will be flung back and I 'll be dragged off to some sort of temple arena where I 'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then I 'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl will show me the secret passage out of the place and we 'll liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure . ’ |
| 28 | At the end of the meditation , towards the end of the meditation , I 'll ask you three questions and I 'll leave some time of silence between each question . |
| 29 | I 'll blow that house of theirs up , she was thinking , I 'll kill them . |
| 30 | You spoke when your face was turned away from me ’ or ‘ I 'll move this vase of flowers so that I can see your face clearly . ’ |