Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [conj] i [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I must eat or I shall collapse . ’ |
| 2 | If you want to have a lunch , and then to just shoot off afterwards , we would probably get you in the staff lunch , I should think but I 'll need to check that , if not you 'll have to wait till half past twelve , to have a , to have a lunch . |
| 3 | He must know that I shall bring down some vessels from Orkney . |
| 4 | My hon. Friend should know that I will deal with the interaction between immigration policy and asylum seeking later . |
| 5 | I 'll tell you give him a ring , tell him that you 've given me his , the telephone number and he should expect that I 'll give him a call in the next week |
| 6 | You must understand that I can do nothing further for you . |
| 7 | ‘ Poor Bernard , I must see if I can sew it for him . |
| 8 | I must confess that I would prefer to see a pigtail with an earring rather than the traditional civil service bowler hat . |
| 9 | Even if the Government do not propose legislation themselves , I imagine that some Private Member will introduce a Bill and I must confess that I can see no way of postponing this issue to a ‘ gentler age ’ . |
| 10 | I must go or I 'll miss my train . ’ |
| 11 | He must go and I must lose my husband and that is all there is to it . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , ’ said Dyson , chewing hard , ‘ 1 must admit that I should like to make a name for myself , just for its own sake . ’ |
| 13 | This is precisely what he had been attempting in " The Dry Salvages " , for example , and it is significant that he used much the same phrase in his demand that contemporary poetry should have such a strong relationship to current speech that " the listener or reader can say " that is how I should talk if I could talk poetry " . |
| 14 | And you must fly and I must run . |
| 15 | ‘ You might think that I would have been happy to go on improving my golf handicap , ’ he said . |
| 16 | ‘ They 'll know because I shall take great pleasure in telling everyone the truth ! ’ |
| 17 | Yeah , okay , well I 'll wait and I 'll go , well I 'll post it in the centre |
| 18 | What does it do ? and then I 'll finish and I 'll summarise . |
| 19 | You know , I sometimes feel as if you and I were connected by a string tying our two hearts together , and if you went to Ireland , I think that string might break and I might bleed to death . ’ |
| 20 | Er I might see if I could pick up that Sheffield United guy Jamie Hoyland . |
| 21 | I 'm er I 'm gon na erm , I might see if I can record some conversation on a bus , but I do n't know . |
| 22 | I might see if I can persuade them to do some practice bits with Therese . ’ |
| 23 | Oh I 'll see if I could get ideas . |
| 24 | ‘ Tell me what you want to know from me and I 'll see if I can oblige , ’ he says , after another pause slashed and stabbed by the insect life . |
| 25 | ‘ If you ask me what you want to know I 'll see if I can tell you . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I 'll see if I can locate Mr Clancy , ’ she said , in some alarm . |
| 27 | And if not I 'll see if I can think of an excuse to try and contact her myself . ’ |
| 28 | Doctor Volkov is off duty today , but I 'll see if I can check through the files in case . ’ |
| 29 | I 'll see if I can hurry it . ’ |
| 30 | Oh right well I 'll erm er see er I 'll , I 'll see if I can catch Ian and , and , and see what , see what 's happened to it |