Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [verb] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever abstract mathematical objects I may choose to represent energy or momentum , the consequence of actually measuring them is the concrete one of finding that I have present so many units of whatever it is . |
| 2 | I may go to see Alida Thorne . |
| 3 | I may venture to add Jerry and I were probably the first Scottish kids to hear this coming over the air . |
| 4 | I may have to use varnish stripper . |
| 5 | ‘ But I hope not for two weeks — and then with any luck not on a Friday , or I may have to ask Doctor Masters to deputise for me . ’ |
| 6 | And reaching 30 in a recession is a special problem in itself — I may have to tread water in my career for some years because there is no chink of promotion in my business . |
| 7 | Did I tell you I may have to have surgery ? |
| 8 | Now I must go to say goodbye to Tess Darrell , and apologise for half-trained servant girls . |
| 9 | Ah , ’ she murmured , ‘ I must go to see cook about dinner . ’ |
| 10 | The first task will be to remove saplings growing too close to the bridge , but I must hasten to reassure conservationists that we were unanimous in agreeing that this must be done sensitively . |
| 11 | To decide , I require not only facts but awareness of how it is likely to feel passing my declining years in that village , and for that I must try to achieve independence of my personal and present viewpoint , reduce it to equality with other viewpoints . |
| 12 | If the hon. Gentleman will forgive me , following the example of the hon. Member for Huddersfield , I must try to make progress in the interests of speed . |
| 13 | I must remember to tell Steve that . |
| 14 | In spite of what you have said , I should prefer to obtain satisfaction for past injuries from yourself than from either King James or his mother . ’ |
| 15 | Very quickly erm er the Mrs said that er yes I do have a direct er line to God and one of the messages he did give me was that I should start to write Focus . |
| 16 | I came away from the Oxford seminar with a clear idea in my mind about what I should do to stimulate discussion on this subject in Wales . |
| 17 | Mum was somewhat cross and suggested that I should go to meet Dad who had gone to his allotment and confess my indiscretion . |
| 18 | ‘ I should love to do Challenges and help with Pack Ventures and go on Pack Holidays and have lots of Brownies to play with , and I 'm sure I 'd soon win lots of badges and stars and things and be a Sixer and ‘ |
| 19 | I should like to thank Edward and Peter for their years of service to the Diocese and to wish them a long and happy retirement . |
| 20 | I should like to take part in the epic-reading planned for 26 May if you have some passages available . |
| 21 | Yes Chairman erm , I 'm , I should like to draw attention to the paragraph three , two and wonder what happened to three , three , because er we see it goes from my copy goes from three , two , to three , four , so er I do n't know whether there is anything in three , three that I have forgotten , but I , I assume now that I which they 're are two other . |
| 22 | Shanti said , ‘ I should like to see Patsy again before I get married . |
| 23 | I should like to ask Mick regarding the long service ambulance personnel . |
| 24 | ‘ I should like to ask Mr Michell and Miss Bailey to c-come to t-tea if they would . |
| 25 | I should like to pay tribute to the care with which the justices record the family history and the chronology . |
| 26 | If my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State does not object , I should like to pay tribute to the Government 's overall strategy . |
| 27 | I should like to congratulate CAJEC 's first chairman , Jock Worsley , and his team on a job well begun , and to wish them continuing success in the future — in the mutual interest of the profession and the public it serves . |
| 28 | ‘ I should like to make life beautiful — I mean everybody 's life , ’ she later remarks . |
| 29 | I should like to make progress . |
| 30 | But I should like to make poems that are about space and order , in the same sense as some modern sculpture . |