Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Excuse me let's eat tonight mind . |
| 2 | If they are not athletically fit they may not be able to hunt for a while and this could be critical , as most of them must kill regularly to survive . |
| 3 | Tell me that , so I may hope still to find , one day , a man of pure heart . |
| 4 | I may end up taking them off completely though . |
| 5 | Some day soon I may call in to see you with out for half-an-hour ! |
| 6 | If my mother was the constantly anxious sort , always worrying unduly about ‘ what will happen if … . ’ , then I may turn out to have learned this way of response myself . |
| 7 | Remarks made by the Senior Management Team about the value of these ‘ minutes ’ in the absence of their own , points to the possibility that I may have slightly biased the proceedings by asserting my interpretation of events . |
| 8 | I may have already sent this , but if not . |
| 9 | In my blunderings around Enniskillen , I may have inadvertently done some harm , as foreigners do in Communist lands by innocently befriending natives who are then shadowed by the secret police and later imprisoned or shot . |
| 10 | No , never tell me more of your goings and comings than is my due , I need only to know , as nearly as you may judge , how long I must bide here to wait for the answer . ’ |
| 11 | I must go now to pick him up from school . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Robert did n't say I must go back to work after the baby ’ , Lucy told me , ‘ but he began to be reluctant about switching on electric fires and looking disapproving if I did ’ . |
| 13 | Certain other arrangements which I must make naturally turn upon this . |
| 14 | Before addressing this question I must turn aside to summarise two decisions , which have had a powerful influence on the shape of the present proceedings . |
| 15 | I must beg therefore to give up the appointment and request you to accept my Resignation . |
| 16 | I think perhaps I must try never to go away unless with you — And yet I know when you are out at supper with others , that you are all the time thinking of me , as I am of you ( and last evening in the hansom ! |
| 17 | I think er I do n't know why but I must have just landed and done a s |
| 18 | Oh that 's about the answer in the back of the book , so I must have just gone wrong on the last bit here . |
| 19 | Oh it was a horse-drawn , horse-drawn , there were no cars on the road in those days , I think I was one of the earliest to get knocked down by a car actually in Walsall , I was er , when we lived in Street he came down Street and immediately opposite there was a Co-op shop opposite Birds the fruitiers , and mother sent me down to the Co-op and the old trams used to run along the Pleck to Darlaston , Wednesbury and that way on and I ran across the road , past the Co-op the tram and a car must have just bumped into me and he knocked me down , a terrible commotion amongst the folks and could n't have hurt them much , because I got up and ran off , ran off home , so they were restricted in you see and the speed they could go in the car , but the car , the tram car was stopped at the bottom of Street , almost opposite the Co-op and er I must have just run across the road run into the car and more or less bounced off it I should think . |
| 20 | I mean I had them in my erm handbag and I think I must have just chucked them out this morning |
| 21 | I must have just left her standing on the steps . |
| 22 | As a child in wartime London I must have unconsciously sought a hobby that had nothing of death in it — something that was all beauty . |
| 23 | ‘ I sometimes think now , Oh gawd , I must have really looked like a schlepp when I used to turn up at Motown or somewhere taking a punk rocky attitude with me . |
| 24 | I must have always wanted to believe in those things ; I did believe in them in a vague sort of way , before I met him . |
| 25 | I must have bloody done so , because they both produced contracts and five or six witnesses who swore that , although I was completely paralytic , I signed them on last Monday night at the Duck and Forceps . |
| 26 | All that work , well oh here we are , tape one and tape three so I must have only done t two tapes , not very impressive . |
| 27 | ‘ I must remember not to do that ! ’ |
| 28 | Thank you all for coming , I know that it 's , it just shows how interested some of us are that you are coming in on such a nice day as this to hear Doreen Griffiths ’ The Cinderella Army ’ or the Land Army , and I must say just reading these bits up here now , I 've got lots of questions I want to ask her when she 's finished , so we 'll let her tell |
| 29 | But I must say how said it made me to hear of the death of Walter the Gardener . |
| 30 | He explained that first I must promise not to fight against Lilliput or hurt Lilliputians , and that I must be searched for weapons . |