Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In theory , the shareholders have legal control of the company , but in practice this is most often exercised by the directors who between them may have a small minority of the shares with the acquiescence of the institutions which are the major shareholders .
2 Everyone must feel a genuine sense of being included .
3 People who carry weapons into bank premises and threaten to use them must receive a severe sentence . ’
4 It is only that I feel I may make a new friend and be rewarded with company .
5 If I live , I may have a crooked back like my father , but I 'll probably die . ’
6 ‘ I 'm sorry , I think I may have a wrong number , ’ it said .
7 If I ought to pay a fair price for what I buy then I ought to come back and add to the agreed price .
8 Along with our new view of ourselves should go a new credo altogether .
9 ‘ An' I must set a good table for the funeral . ’
10 To escape from Heathcliff I must go a long way away .
11 I see that I must do a little bargaining on my own behalf .
12 I made Mrs Seale come with me in a cab from the theatre , saying I must visit a sick friend .
13 And I must make a real effort to find one of these machines that 's working .
14 And I must make a real effort to find one of these machines that 's working .
15 but I must make a historical excursion here to establish the background to this absolutely fundamental question .
16 Well then tomorrow I must make a little list , see cos I want to finish that baby 's jumper
17 But to answer it , I must make a considerable digression , to say something about how we get such beliefs by observation .
18 I must start a new life among strangers . ’
19 ‘ And now ’ , she said , ‘ I must propose a special vote of thanks to Mr Barker to whom we all owe so much . ’
20 I must look a frightful sight , ’ she said .
21 I was sure I must look a different person , that my guilt and radiance must have transfigured me .
22 I must look a different being to yesterday .
23 Before going on to the second reason for Locke 's not acknowledging the existence of epistemic appearances I must correct a false impression I may have given , that all the seventeenth-century philosophers who succeeded Descartes toed the Cartesian line about the mind perceiving things by being causally affected by them .
24 I must have a good game against him . ’
25 ( I 've done dozens of lectures now , in front of all sorts of people , and I always make it up as I go along , although I suppose I must have a rough idea about what I 'm going to say . )
26 But then I must have a cold shower .
27 I must write a grand opera or none at all ; if I write a small one , I shall get very little for it ( for everything is taxed here ) .
28 Thus I can say this morning either during the morning or the afternoon , and refer to the same span ; whereas in Chinantec , I must use a different word for referring to the morning in the morning ( i.e. when the span includes CT ) from the one I use to refer to the morning in the afternoon ( i.e. when the span referred to excludes CT , but is within the same larger diurnal span as CT — Fillmore , 1975 : 47 ) .
29 I must get a good night 's sleep . ’
30 Daisy thought , a people that loves flowers yet is cruel to animals ; Sister Dew said to herself , I must get a coloured postcard of that to send to my friend .
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