Example sentences of "i [vb mod] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , the the the er er the fax in the first instance has been sent by a back bench member of this house who is not a minister , but I may tell the honourable gentleman that I get all sorts of things from mail shots inviting me to all er manner of functions , all of which find their way into the waste paper basket . |
| 2 | I may spot the unnatural symmetry which a real stick would not have . |
| 3 | Anyway , who knows , I may get the odd half-hour just to pop down the gangway and explore those fascinating little shops down there . ’ |
| 4 | My sister and I may share the same birthday , but we do n't share the same man , though if we did it would be none of your business . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps I ought to wear the wretched thing after all , just to give a talking-point . |
| 6 | ‘ Thought I ought to present the right image — ’ |
| 7 | I must advise the hon. Gentleman , however , that the phrase in Big Farm Weekly , ’ Goodbye to the BSE scourge ’ was not mine , but that of the chief veterinary officer . |
| 8 | I must tell the hon. Gentleman that , as a new Member of Parliament , he should be more concerned with the possibility of improving the delivery of health care to his constituents . |
| 9 | Guevara begun by saying that I must understand the Cuban revolution . |
| 10 | In the interests of honesty and truthfulness , I must ask the hon. Gentleman to withdraw the form of words that he used — that the Government ’ blocked ’ the directive on pregnant women . |
| 11 | It seems to me that I must judge the present claim in nuisance by reference to the present character of the neighbourhood pursuant to the planning permission for use of the dockyard as a commercial port . |
| 12 | Obviously , you the supporters already accept that I must take the greater challenge when it comes . |
| 13 | says explaining why he had come to earth Jesus told the Roman governor Pontius Pilate , will thus I 've been born and for this purpose I have come out of the world that I should bear witness to the truth , but what particular truth was Jesus sent to earth to make no man , first just about his heavenly father , he taught his followers to pray that his father name be hallowed or hell holy and he prayed , I have made your name manifest to the man you gave me , also he said I must declare the good news with the kingdom of God , because for this I was sent forth , so what truths did Jesus come to er , to tell ? |
| 14 | That he heard I was so tremendously successful in the Gothic style that if he let me alone I should Gothicize the whole country , &c. , &c. , & c . |
| 15 | Perhaps I should leave the last word to my son . |
| 16 | But there is no issue for which simply to deduce from socially prescribed principles combined with factual propositions would be anything but a mechanical conformity ; I know why I should do the prescribed thing only if , at least at my moments of fullest awareness from other viewpoints , I feel moved to do so . |
| 17 | Anyway , if a sanitary inspector came in here I should think the whole place would be condemned . ’ |
| 18 | If this is difficult , I should eat the easy bit after Reggane . ’ |
| 19 | But even if Flaubert had described himself as a lethargic meliorist , I should make the same point : what a curious vanity it is of the present to expect the past to suck up to it . |
| 20 | I stammered something about not understanding cricket , totally incredulous that anyone should suppose I did understand it , or that I should regard the English side as ‘ we ’ . |
| 21 | Before we allow him to intrude on to my turf too far , I should set the whole business in its correct credit context . |
| 22 | I believed I should consider the Anglican Church not fully Christian in that it discriminated against women ; though I wanted to worship there . |
| 23 | Or I should say the wee imp ran into me . |
| 24 | And erm I should say the average family was around about four , four mark , four and five children mark . |
| 25 | It is important that I should ask the hon. Gentleman carefully to consider what he has just said about my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General , who set out the legal position as a Law Officer . |
| 26 | I am not confident about how I should take the hon. Gentleman 's concluding remarks , but I shall bear with equanimity what I suspect may be a poisoned chalice . |
| 27 | He said : ‘ A few years ago Graham Taylor , then at Aston Villa , rang and said I should join the old organisation . |
| 28 | But I certainly did n't think , as I went into the trees , that I should have the apparent answer within another hundred yards . |
| 29 | Once when I was at school he told me that I should spend the entire summer working on improving my passing off my left hand and my kicking off my left foot . |
| 30 | ‘ No , just trying to decide whether I should take you riding in a horse-drawn carriage through Dyrhaven tomorrow , or whether I should spend the whole day making love to you . ’ |