Example sentences of "i [modal v] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I may have other problems one of these days , but overweight is never again going to be one of them ’ … |
2 | Hence , I may have great difficulty in answering a relatively simple question like ‘ Why do you put so much energy into your career ? ’ and I would have even more difficulty in deciding how much energy 1 should put into my career and how much into my family . |
3 | ‘ Thee I invoke , oh our Emperor , ’ he prayed , the formula glowing neon in his mind 's eye , ‘ that thou wilt infuse these cards this hour ; that thereby I may obtain true insight of things hidden , to thy glory and to the salvation of humanity — ’ |
4 | He said make-up was all very well for some people , but he hated to see it on girls who were n't the right type — implying I suppose , that I ought to wear woollen stockings and teach in a Sunday school ! |
5 | But to track the creature down , I must have advance information . |
6 | I must have sensitive eyes |
7 | ‘ I 've decided I must have schizoid tendencies . |
8 | ‘ Good God , I must take holy orders immediately . ’ |
9 | And first of all , I must say good luck to the eleven local sides taking part in tomorrow 's curtain raiser at Twickers before we take on the argy-bargies and thrash them . |
10 | If there 's anything embedded in it like gravel or something and it does n't come away easily you must n't , it comes under the categories of what you call foreign bodies , which first aider is not at liberty to poke about , you must leave foreign bodies that do n't come away easily where they are and bandage them round and send them off to hospital or a doctor , but assuming it 's just a little clean graze , if I have n't got a tap to put it under , then I must use little bits of gauze to wash , put in a bowl of water and just wipe , yeah , and you always wipe obviously from the centre of a wound towards the outside , otherwise if you start to wipe across the whole thing you take dirt from one side of the wound across and drop it off in the middle somewhere , so you wipe from the centre out and throw that piece away and you take another piece and wipe from the centre out and so on until you feel happy , quite happy . |
11 | I must get straight back to the hotel ’ |
12 | I must put particular emphasis on " she " because , of course , most books in this style are written by women , although by no means all . |
13 | I know that it would be the wish of my constituents that I should convey heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved and the injured in their grief and agony . |
14 | He argued that I should treat other people 's wants and needs as constraints upon the satisfaction of my own . |
15 | I understand that I should quarantine newly-purchased Koi before introducing them to my pond . |
16 | So we 're talking about the sixty acre sixty hectares that are allocated for the rest of the Harrogate district and er I should like formal confirmation from Mr Allenby privately already that there is no question of any part of the York , Greater York area allocation being transferred into the rest of the district should it fall through for any purpose . |
17 | I should like hon. Members to give TECs not only their support but the time to develop their approach locally to see whether they can meet the high expectations that understandably now exist . |
18 | ‘ Good morning , Robbie , ’ he drawled , ‘ or perhaps I should say good afternoon . ’ |
19 | Some er some very good erm records I should say decent music . |
20 | I do n't see why I should support single parents ! |
21 | I think there 's going to be , I do n't know whether there is so I sh I should ask fair-trade mark . |
22 | ‘ I should ask Black Will , ’ Richard told him . |
23 | But — with respect to you — I should need direct instructions from Sir Geoffrey . " |
24 | And they were wondering whether I should have private classes or be with the group and have group therapy and they decided , yes , she is like everybody else . |
25 | I felt at the time , that if such a Call sere presented I should have great difficulty , indeed , in declining it , even in the face of much inconvenience and pecuniary sacrifice . |
26 | Had I an opportunity I should have great pleasure in giving you a few hints on this subject which might not be useless . |
27 | Do you believe in what I might call national characteristics ? |
28 | Chairman I think this is probably the first time in this council chamber in twenty years that er I will probably have spoken on er social services issues er and I speak from an entirely private capacity and any information that er that comes my way is from what I might call informed members of the public erm , people who I come into contact with and from my own experiences as a ward councillor and from as we all do from time to time , my own family experience , my own domestic experiences and I do know something about the problems which are associated with the the care of elderly people er although I do n't have that problem now erm things have taken their course . |
29 | I have waited a long time before writing to you , hoping all the time that I might hear good news of Leslie from Wendy . |
30 | Now I might have extra players so that there can be some moments of rest for the players in one of the very long symphonies ; but in Bruckner 's day it was often a matter of re-scoring a passage because you knew that the third horn was not a very good player and that is all you had . |