Example sentences of "i [modal v] [verb] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I may speak in a spirit of complaint , David , I might point out that it 's easy for you to talk and even easier to talk tough . |
| 2 | The anthem : ‘ Blessed by Thou , Lord God of Israel ’ was sung by Thomas Street Church choir and the sermon was preached by Mr Guard who chose as his text the fourth verse of the twenty-seventh Psalm : ‘ One thing have I desired of the Lord , that will I seek after , that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life , to behold the beauty of the Lord and to enquire in His temple . ’ |
| 3 | As usual , I felt that , on taking leave , I ought to proceed in a direction opposite to that which he was taking , because there was a mystery as to where Eliot lived , and I did not want to appear inquisitive . |
| 4 | The Aborigines who were with me , and of whom I must speak in the highest praise , for the readiness with which they rendered me their assistance , affirmed , upon learning the nature of my pursuits , that they had come to meet me . ’ |
| 5 | I must admit in the break I we like to do the crossword . |
| 6 | I wanted so much to go into the house and be with them , but I knew I must stay in the hut . |
| 7 | ‘ I must pause in a minute . |
| 8 | I must revive in the listening public their own sense of moving about in worlds unrealized … . |
| 9 | ‘ I must believe in the Apostolic Succession , there being no other way of accounting for the descent of the Bishop of Exeter from Judas Iscariot . ’ |
| 10 | The producer had the idea that I should appear in a simply ludicrous costume : a German trench coat , knee-length open boots , a black leotard with the upper part of the thighs naked , and hair like Marlene Dietrich ! |
| 11 | I thought er that God wanted me to be a doctor and I did n't have a place to go to , I took my A levels having had five chances of places to be a doctor and everybody saying no , we do n't want you and erm I had everybody praying for me at church and quite miraculously at the end of the August , when I should start in the September , I had a phone call at half past ten at night from a surgeon at the London Hospital asking me to go for an interview the next day . |
| 12 | Though I should walk in the valley of the shadow of death , save me spasms , he ceased , and lying back quietly now , with no words teeming in his head , he wiped his hand on the ground . |
| 13 | Giles went to the kitchen to make coffee , refusing offers of help — ‘ I should get in a fuss and make a fool of myself if watched . ’ |
| 14 | Well well you 'd go to er er I should say in the morning service , that was a service you used to have . |
| 15 | I should say in the context of the working of the Anglo-Irish Agreement that at no stage during the time that I have been Secretary of State has the Minister for Defence for the Republic of Ireland taken part in the conference . |
| 16 | As agreed , he swung a punch to my chin so that I should rise in an elegant arc of slow motion to fall sprawled in a dramatic contortion on the bar room floor . |
| 17 | I had hoped he and I might snuggle in the back of the car while his mate did the driving . |
| 18 | Yeah I might , I mean I might I might go in the best ones I can get . |
| 19 | And yet I risked everything I had worked towards , all the hope of what I might do in a position of real power , for something that was obviously doomed to failure from the start . |
| 20 | But I might do in the next fifty years any of them . |
| 21 | Perhaps I might see in the rising of that sun some icon quintessentially Pacific , or think some thought which in a flash would sum up the essential message of the great Ocean . |
| 22 | I might jump in the lake , I do n't really know . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm afraid I might behave in a rather cowardly fashion . |
| 24 | I had thought that I might ride in a carretta to the edge of the desert , and then walk away over the sand and into the sun . |
| 25 | Think I might put in a note actually . |
| 26 | I 'll return in an hour to shear you . ’ |
| 27 | I 'll remain in the open where I 'm easily seen , easy to find . |
| 28 | I 'll swear in a minute |
| 29 | ‘ I 'll leave in a few minutes and be with you in about half an hour . |
| 30 | I 'm beginning to think I 'll leave in the summer , whether I get a proper job or not . |