Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [prep] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Well , then , let me put it this way : neither you nor I is happy ; but I may at least continue to be only moderately unhappy in reasonable comfort , while you may abruptly cease to be anything at all except on Social Security if goat 's cheese and sheep 's yoghurt hit a rough patch .
2 No wonder we have always eaten as we have , she thought ; if nothing else comes out of my malaise I may at least learn how to cook in the spirit of the times .
3 I think I ought to just come in there because , erm , I do n't know to what degree it 's appropriate to discuss erm , the er , some of the background details to the letting of contracts in public , but perhaps it 's alright .
4 And here I ought to perhaps make it clear that the circles I provided on the sheet which was distributed , allow for a density of twenty houses per hectare .
5 Perhaps I ought to formally reopen the inquest ; compel the police to reveal publicly how little they have achieved . ’
6 The registrar was saying that I must at least remember the year .
7 I must at least try .
8 To start from myself , I can not choose between reactions without having some control over them ; to choose not to be burned I must at least have the power to withdraw my finger from the flame .
9 Well , maybe they do , but making any old noises is clearly not sufficient to enter the rationality stakes ; I must at least say something .
10 Before turning to the work of Sayre , Dennett and Sloman , I should at least mention one major question that has been left unasked in this paper , and intentionally so : namely , what properties would a machine have to have in order to be sufficient for us to deem it conscious ?
11 The telephone rang while I was busy explaining to Tony Crosland that I could not accept a further term of office at the Housing Corporation , since I had been appointed to the Mastership of University College , Oxford , but I had agreed to a request that I should at least stay for another year to see someone else in .
12 I should at least have noticed you 'd got stronger . ’
13 She thought : I should at least have been a little drunk .
14 And apparently at speech day she was talking to s do you know she had the cheek to say to me she had the cheek to tell somebody to say that I should at least have the decency to go out with someone who 's half looking , half good looking .
15 ‘ They usually come up with a couple of lesser-known names , and if I can keep the runs coming I like to think I might at least get a mention . ’
16 Perhaps I could at least stay until she wakes up and I can explain what 's happening . ’
17 You see if I had the original identification I could at least match it up against a description . ’
18 But I could at least sense that even the most feared and serious of all the mental illnesses did have something to do with me , however disturbing that may have seemed at the time .
19 I could at least ask them . ’
20 So by offering English , French , Greek and Music I could at least attempt to get into Somerville by December 1923 .
21 I hated it , and Dr Kelleher got some of them taken down so that I could at least see the daylight .
22 She gave me Zdenka 's German address and asked if I could at least write to her daughter from time to time to keep her spirits up .
23 I thought I 'd at least get some sympathy from you , ’ Laura moaned , suddenly feeling that the whole world was against her .
24 I used to even give up my lunch hours so that I could come home and take the dog out !
25 Oh , I used to fucking wait on him .
26 I had friends there but I used to just start crying before I was due to go . ’
27 I used to just sit and cry .
28 So I 've got all ready , for me AIDS cos I used to just think oh I do n't really , I could just go and get some leaflets on ban on
29 Well , I used to just stay in my house all night and lock myself in my room and think .
30 All it needed was a bit of tumbleweed to make it seem more deserted than it really was and I used to just fight against that dissatisfaction .
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