Example sentences of "i [vb mod] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It is only that I feel I may make a new friend and be rewarded with company . |
2 | As the start of the season is very close I wonder if I may make a few points for other readers to think about ? |
3 | ‘ I may need a few shots before I find the mark , Khan . ’ |
4 | If I live , I may have a crooked back like my father , but I 'll probably die . ’ |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I think I may have a wrong number , ’ it said . |
8 | If I ought to pay a fair price for what I buy then I ought to come back and add to the agreed price . |
9 | ‘ An' I must set a good table for the funeral . ’ |
10 | To escape from Heathcliff I must go a long way away . |
11 | I see that I must do a little bargaining on my own behalf . |
12 | I made Mrs Seale come with me in a cab from the theatre , saying I must visit a sick friend . |
13 | And I must make a real effort to find one of these machines that 's working . |
14 | And I must make a real effort to find one of these machines that 's working . |
15 | but I must make a historical excursion here to establish the background to this absolutely fundamental question . |
16 | And now I must make a few preparations . |
17 | Well then tomorrow I must make a little list , see cos I want to finish that baby 's jumper |
18 | But to answer it , I must make a considerable digression , to say something about how we get such beliefs by observation . |
19 | I must start a new life among strangers . ’ |
20 | ‘ And now ’ , she said , ‘ I must propose a special vote of thanks to Mr Barker to whom we all owe so much . ’ |
21 | However , first I must define a few basics . |
22 | ‘ I must look a frightful sight , ’ she said . |
23 | I was sure I must look a different person , that my guilt and radiance must have transfigured me . |
24 | I must look a different being to yesterday . |
25 | Before going on to the second reason for Locke 's not acknowledging the existence of epistemic appearances I must correct a false impression I may have given , that all the seventeenth-century philosophers who succeeded Descartes toed the Cartesian line about the mind perceiving things by being causally affected by them . |
26 | I must have a good game against him . ’ |
27 | So okay I have n't seen I must have a tiny little book . |
28 | ( I 've done dozens of lectures now , in front of all sorts of people , and I always make it up as I go along , although I suppose I must have a rough idea about what I 'm going to say . ) |
29 | But then I must have a cold shower . |
30 | I must write a grand opera or none at all ; if I write a small one , I shall get very little for it ( for everything is taxed here ) . |