Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | People who carry weapons into bank premises and threaten to use them must receive a severe sentence . ’ |
| 3 | It is only that I feel I may make a new friend and be rewarded with company . |
| 4 | If I live , I may have a crooked back like my father , but I 'll probably die . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I think I may have a wrong number , ’ it said . |
| 6 | If I ought to pay a fair price for what I buy then I ought to come back and add to the agreed price . |
| 7 | ‘ An' I must set a good table for the funeral . ’ |
| 8 | To escape from Heathcliff I must go a long way away . |
| 9 | I see that I must do a little bargaining on my own behalf . |
| 10 | I made Mrs Seale come with me in a cab from the theatre , saying I must visit a sick friend . |
| 11 | And I must make a real effort to find one of these machines that 's working . |
| 12 | And I must make a real effort to find one of these machines that 's working . |
| 13 | but I must make a historical excursion here to establish the background to this absolutely fundamental question . |
| 14 | Well then tomorrow I must make a little list , see cos I want to finish that baby 's jumper |
| 15 | But to answer it , I must make a considerable digression , to say something about how we get such beliefs by observation . |
| 16 | I must start a new life among strangers . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ And now ’ , she said , ‘ I must propose a special vote of thanks to Mr Barker to whom we all owe so much . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I must look a frightful sight , ’ she said . |
| 19 | I was sure I must look a different person , that my guilt and radiance must have transfigured me . |
| 20 | I must look a different being to yesterday . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I must have a good game against him . ’ |
| 23 | ( 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 . ) |
| 24 | But then I must have a cold shower . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | I must get a good night 's sleep . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I must declare a new interest at the outset of my speech in that I have recently become the parliamentary adviser to the Federation of Master Builders . |
| 30 | ‘ I have neither money or influence , ’ he hold Thelwall , ‘ & I suppose , that at last I must become a Unitarian minister as a less evil than starvation — for I get nothing by literature . ’ |