Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [verb] [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | God willing , Pa says , I may get to have a double helping tomorrow . |
| 2 | I just wanted to say three brief things about the boundaries , before doing so I think I may have to declare a personal interest . |
| 3 | Now I must try to get the young people dancing . ’ |
| 4 | I could n't understand why I should want to leave the relative safety of the house in Fulham to walk into a hornets ' nest of horrified disapproval and rejection . |
| 5 | The meeting was successful , and I should like to highlight the key points . |
| 6 | I should like to put the contrary view that an understanding of theory is of primary importance because this provides a general perspective on the nature of language which influences pedagogic principles and indicates how different descriptions might be adapted for classroom use . |
| 7 | I should like to see the new Techniquest look out across a natural estuary that has seen the tide rise and fall for a million years . |
| 8 | I should like to have a good bath — I have n't had one for weeks — and something to eat , before you begin to cut me up as though I were one of your business opponents laid out for you to hand them the coup de grâce . ’ |
| 9 | Returning to a more traditional style of presentation , and returning also to the question at issue in the light of the evidence presented above , I should like to offer the following conclusions : |
| 10 | As a cyclist myself , I should like to make a personal request : if you should find it necessary to use a tractor-mounted flail hedge trimmer to cut the hedges please could you ensure that the hawthorn clippings are swept up and removed and not left in the road as a danger to cyclists . |
| 11 | To illustrate this point further I should like to make the following points . |
| 12 | In support of this request I should like to make the following points : |
| 13 | I should have to examine the whole state of the law as to , and the history of the subject of , consideration , which , I need hardly say , I do not propose to do . |
| 14 | I was not told , when we left , that I should have to fight a running battle with four hundred horsemen . |
| 15 | But with the coming of peace , I realised that I should have to face a new , strange , ‘ normal , world — alone . |
| 16 | Now I should have to study the English language in earnest , keeping one chapter ahead of the students each week . |
| 17 | I should have to know a great deal more about you . |
| 18 | She had no travellers ' tales , no air of a person who had been on a journey , and I knew she would be both disbelieving and resentful if I should try to describe the eternal vistas I had glimpsed . |
| 19 | Told her I might decide to scrap the whole thing . |
| 20 | I had been employed at Jersey House for about two and a half years when I was approached to see if I might like to do a little cleaning work to earn some overtime . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'll need to ascertain a good many people 's whereabouts on Wednesday afternoon , ’ Doone said placidly in a flourish of jargon . |
| 22 | I 'll have to ask the Foreign Office to set up an interview . |
| 23 | I 'll have to wear a long coat . |
| 24 | I 'll have to , I 'll have to arrange a hanging squad here . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'll have to play the sick ma act with him too , ’ he thought , white in the face , his heart pounding , ‘ and I 'll have to do it naturally . |
| 26 | I 'll have to buy a new dress . |
| 27 | If you 're taking a holiday more than a three-hour drive from here , he thought , I 'll have to find a different way of doing this . |
| 28 | I think I 'll have to get a new pan . |
| 29 | This bra 's too small , I 'll have to get a new one ! |
| 30 | I think I 'll have to get a new curtain rail it 's that the plastic snapped been on the curtain ring |