Example sentences of "i [vb mod] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People are bound to miss Gary Lineker but successors like me must score a few and establish reputations of their own . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is only that I feel I may make a new friend and be rewarded with company . |
| 4 | As the start of the season is very close I wonder if I may make a few points for other readers to think about ? |
| 5 | I may expect no mass media to crusade , no millions of strangers to become suddenly familiar with my name and anxious for my cause . |
| 6 | If I may remind the right hon. Gentleman , I did not invent that figure . |
| 7 | I may spot the unnatural symmetry which a real stick would not have . |
| 8 | I may inform the right hon. and learned Gentleman that a single man on average earnings in 1978-79 was paying 42 per cent . |
| 9 | Anyway , who knows , I may get the odd half-hour just to pop down the gangway and explore those fascinating little shops down there . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I may need a few shots before I find the mark , Khan . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | Later that year Thein Pe told Force 136 that there were many ‘ sympathisers ’ and even some activists ; he added ‘ Thakin Nu is what I may call an active sympathiser . |
| 13 | If I live , I may have a crooked back like my father , but I 'll probably die . ’ |
| 14 | I can see that I may have a little difficulty explaining this first part of my story , especially to anyone not acquainted with the often bizarre rituals of academic life . |
| 15 | Sir , If you please to send me a scarlet Cardinal [ a short red cloak ] , and let it be full yard long , and rather longer than a yard long , and let it be full , for it be for a large Woman , they tell me I may have a long one , and a handsome one , for 11s but I shou 'd not be willing to give more than 12s , but if you have any as long as that , either duffil or cloth , if it is cheaper , I shou 'd like it as well as , for I am not to give but 12s for it . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I think I may have a wrong number , ’ it said . |
| 17 | ‘ Perhaps I ought to wear the wretched thing after all , just to give a talking-point . |
| 18 | ‘ I ought to collect the little ‘ uns from their minder , too . |
| 19 | Faced with the absurdity of British public life , I sometimes think I ought to do the same , turning this space into a museum of grotesque items displayed without comment . |
| 20 | If I ought to pay a fair price for what I buy then I ought to come back and add to the agreed price . |
| 21 | ‘ Thought I ought to present the right image — ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I asked if you were sleeping with him , and since you have done everything to evade a straight answer I must assume the worst or the best , depending whose side you are one . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ An' I must set a good table for the funeral . ’ |
| 26 | He had been doing that throughout his poetry — as he had said more than thirty years earlier , in " Portrait of a , Lady " , " And I must borrow every changing shape/To find expression … " but the process reaches its culmination in " Little Gidding " where he creates a replica of Dante 's terza rima : |
| 27 | To escape from Heathcliff I must go a long way away . |
| 28 | I must quote the first two subsections : |
| 29 | I see that I must do a little bargaining on my own behalf . |
| 30 | Kowalik said : ‘ I reached the World Championship semi-finals last year and I must do the same again to prove that my career is on course . |