Example sentences of "i [modal v] [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may not sympathize with the bombing . |
| 2 | ‘ I may not approve of the theology , ’ Laura perused a Caravaggio , which pictured Elvis as one of the three kings offering gifts to the infant Jesus ; Elvis was offering a tiny guitar , ‘ but the quality , the sheer magnificence . |
| 3 | If I do it in private , I may easily fall into the way of doing so in public . |
| 4 | I ought never to forget about the kiddy . ’ |
| 5 | I must also acknowledge to the Minister and the House that I have been unable to interview my constituent face to face . |
| 6 | As my hair turns grey and falls out I must also put in a plug for senior sailors with earlier retirement |
| 7 | So I must not jump at the first chance . |
| 8 | I must now turn to the decided cases to see whether they refute the prima facie views I have formed and expressed in the foregoing paragraphs based on the construction of the statute and indeed otherwise to see what light they shed on the issues falling for decision . |
| 9 | There is nothing I can do about that for he harms himself , but I must still behave like a dutiful son and observe a son 's obligations . ’ |
| 10 | Yet in the next sentence he says , " I should strongly object to a bar being placed on the employment of women " . " |
| 11 | But , I told myself as I took a service elevator up to the roof , I should not think in the past tense . |
| 12 | That is a point of view which I understand , but which I should not commend against a background in which Parliament , when removing the unfettered right of a land owner to develop his land as he wished , thought it right to enable a land owner to get a second opinion if the local decision on his application was adverse . |
| 13 | The coal mines act said that I should n't go on the face until I was sixteen but er the war was on . |
| 14 | Miss H. K. Todd , of Ramsgate , Kent said : ‘ We should be careful to keep sex in check ’ — clearly suggesting I should n't go over the top with this topic . |
| 15 | But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground , and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place ; I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given , that for anything I knew , the watch might have always been there . |
| 16 | I should perhaps explain in the context of your various questions when I say that erm we do want to become involved in these things , that , at this stage , and we 've only held two meetings , we have just identified themes and general areas in which we want to work , and not precise projects or activities . |
| 17 | We also have a number of collectors , one of whom I visited recently to discover a house so piled with neatly catalogued shoe boxes full of cards that I could not see how he and I might successfully get from the front door to the kitchen without a Sherpa . |
| 18 | I might even get to the office and be measured and out again before the first of the boys arrived . |
| 19 | I would never go out like what Tony was saying you know he does n't drink at all and like he 'd be in a pub maybe seven days a week but I would take a drink now and again and I might n't go into a pub once in a month maybe . |
| 20 | ‘ If I might possibly butt in a moment … |
| 21 | Much as I might personally long for a world where sun and moon danced together and all the trees clapped their hands , it remained intangible . |
| 22 | Secretly , I might still yearn for a bumper-sized twelve-inch member . |
| 23 | That 's so funny on the , have you seen that erm advert on John Smiths where he goes , , not me I 'll just settle for a can of John Smiths , and dandruff |
| 24 | Group pick up , which I 'll just mention in a second , and call forwarding . |
| 25 | I 'll just sit on the edge of your bed and eat me chips . |
| 26 | Right , erm I 'll just go to the thing . |
| 27 | No , I 'll just go to the freezer |
| 28 | In the former , the speaker goes back over , or summarizes , the literal ( locutionary ) meaning of what has been said — and this is typically marked by phrases like ‘ I 'll just go over the main points again' . |
| 29 | I 'll just go round the other side and get the ice-cream . |
| 30 | She said the Samaritans she said Joy I were gon na commit suicide , and she said I thought well I 'll just talk to the Samaritans and she said that 's where I were , I said you wo n't commit suicide will you ? |