Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Aborigines who were with me , and of whom I must speak in the highest praise , for the readiness with which they rendered me their assistance , affirmed , upon learning the nature of my pursuits , that they had come to meet me . ’ |
| 2 | I must revive in the listening public their own sense of moving about in worlds unrealized … . |
| 3 | ‘ I must believe in the Apostolic Succession , there being no other way of accounting for the descent of the Bishop of Exeter from Judas Iscariot . ’ |
| 4 | Yeah I might , I mean I might I might go in the best ones I can get . |
| 5 | But I might do in the next fifty years any of them . |
| 6 | I 'll work in the timid heart of the maid |
| 7 | Now correct me if I 'm wrong , I 'll look in the other r Excuse me while I look in the other room . |
| 8 | You start , you play this game , I 'll join in the next game , okay ? |
| 9 | I tell you what , I 'll run in the next London Marathon , then I 'll have to keep fit . ’ |
| 10 | We are working to achieve an agreement at Maastricht in December , but it must be an agreement that I could make in the confident expectation that I could commend it to the House . |
| 11 | She said she 'd have a sherry , a nebulous drink itself , so I poured her as dark and sweet a one as I could find in the little tight tiny rows of sinister bottles , and while she drank it I put on trousers and sweater . |
| 12 | Dod dropped me in Hackney , two streets away from Stuart Street so I could call in the Chinese take-away on the way . |
| 13 | I 'd stay in the top class cos you got |
| 14 | " I think Uncle rather hoped I 'd live in the two rooms at the back but they smell a bit too powerfully of monkey and parrot so I 've moved up into his flat . |
| 15 | I did n't know whether I 'd put in the right number and I thought well I 'll , I wo n't let anyone answer it , I 'll just re-dial . |
| 16 | I must admit , if I had if I actually had to say , which of all those would I be most happy not playing , I 'd say In the Bleak Midwinter , but |
| 17 | I used to sleep in the same bed as my mother and father because of the shortage of space , but one morning I woke up in another room and I looked out and saw the undertaker standing at the top of the stairs . |
| 18 | I used to argue in the nineteen sixties that Britain should become the fifty first state but I 'm not so sure about that . |
| 19 | And er I used to think in the old days that bookbinding was a very common thing , but since I 've grown er and gone through the world , I thought he was a very clever man . |
| 20 | I used to believe in the Protestant work ethic , in the virtue of a regular twelve-hour working day , deluding myself that this was the only way to achieve excellent business results , kidding myself that I actually enjoyed going home exhausted on Friday evening , taking with me a whole bundle of weekend paperwork . |
| 21 | The King had decided I would stay in the largest available building , just outside the city gates . |
| 22 | But the answer to these fundamental questions must follow a review of the law as understood at present , which I would express in the following propositions . |
| 23 | And er this of course er we th the office was being run I would think in the early twenties very much like it was done in the late nineties . |
| 24 | But I would think , I mean , ideally we need four I would think in the first instance er two of those and two of those and then the inners . |
| 25 | Sometimes I would sit in the deserted church of San Madin , a small twelfth-century romanesque building just off the Plaza Mayor , on the Plaza Poeta Iglesias . |
| 26 | I had become so eidetically adept that I could make these phantom partners mutate in mid-thrust , so that while I might penetrate a swivel-hipped virgin , clean and childishly scented , I would come in the flabby , dentureless , food-flecked mouth of an octogenarian . |
| 27 | What had now to be resolved was exactly what role I would play in the new venture . |
| 28 | Yeah , I would have in the first place , but it was just impossible ! |
| 29 | This is a point to which I shall return in the concluding chapter . |
| 30 | I shall return in the last part of this book to discuss the realistic potential for both the renewables and conservation in more detail and within a non-nuclear energy policy . |