Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [vb infin] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I may have to go to a meeting . |
2 | Oh I think I may have to go to the toilet before I go home . |
3 | If you would forgive me yet again , I must go to change into the appropriate costume . ’ |
4 | I must try to live under the cross daily . |
5 | ‘ That 's awfully kind of you , and I should love to come for a couple of days , if I may . |
6 | I should like to speak longer , because the hon. Member for Islington , South and Finsbury ( Mr. Smith ) spoke about the losses that he envisages would be incurred by the development of the station at King 's Cross , and if I had the time I should love to expand on the economic benefits that could be achieved in employment terms , the environmental benefits that would accrue to the area and the safety benefits that would be brought about by the Fennell provisions in the Bill . |
7 | I wrote out , over and over , with a calm satisfaction : " I should like to live among the leaves and heather like the birds , to wear a dress of feathers , and to eat berries . " |
8 | I should like to live in a community , Eleanor Thorne decided , I should like to taste the fruits of life in a small home , a retirement home , an old people 's house , whatever it might be called . |
9 | Briefly , I should like to respond to the Secretary of State and to express my thanks to my hon. Friends who have contributed positively to improving the Bill . |
10 | Before we proceed to consider the question as to whether there can be a Christology which is not incompatible with feminism , I should like to point to the significance of this question for Christians . |
11 | With the Institute as a theme I should like to refer to the Presidential Address of in London in 1927 who said , and I quote : |
12 | I have often thought that I should like to push through the House a simple single-clause Bill which would reduce death and injury at a stroke : it would be to insist that road traffic operated with signals in the same way as trains . |
13 | What I should like to underline in the present context is the connection between the recitals in the texts and the teleological method of interpretation . |
14 | For the purpose of this book , I should like to think of a smallholding as any parcel of agricultural land of up to ( say ) 100 acres , organized to be worked by one or two people , without paid labour , and through which they can make part or the whole of their living . |
15 | To close , I should like to quote from a source that especially some of us find more authoritative than a business man . |
16 | In that connection , I should like to quote from a letter that the Secretary of State wrote to the right hon. Member for Selby ( Mr. Alison ) who was concerned — rightly so — about a letter that a tenant in his constituency had received from Grand Metropolitan Estates . |
17 | I should like to express to the House on behalf of the people whom I represent and my party our deep feeling of revulsion at what has taken place and our deepest sympathy for those who have suffered . |
18 | He makes some valid points that I should like to bring to the House 's attention . |
19 | Kathy I should hate to live in the house my grandfather lived in a hundred years ago ! |
20 | As well as often mis-clubbing him I might forget to put in a clean towel in the bag or something like that . |
21 | I think I might go to live in the country , in the 1980s . |
22 | Millie did not answer straightaway ; then , thought fully , she said , ‘ I thought I might like to go to the day school . |
23 | At any rate , at the next ward meeting , he suggested that I might like to stand for the local council . |
24 | I know the ‘ next steps ’ , i.e. when I will be contacted and when I might have to return for a second interview . |
25 | I might have to go for a recall . |
26 | I thought I might have to paint in a taffeta dress or something ! |
27 | Yeah , we 've got a wrong driver and I did n't have one in my things so I might have to regroup with a proper let's have a look in DOS and see what mouse drivers it 's got . |
28 | For whatever reason , I seem to be able to persuade big names to be on my show , so if we get this off the ground I 'll aim to start with the true superstars . |
29 | ‘ After London , I 'll go to train for a while in Boulder in the United States and start preparing for the Olympics . ’ |
30 | But the , you see if you look in the , I have information off the Birmingham secretary , er Secretary 's secretary , she was involved , she even was imprisoned in Switzerland erm when the peace movement was on between the two wars , and that was when they were , I believe it was a German woman that er that was on , you know in the committee , but I 'll have to refer to the Caring and Sharing book . |