Example sentences of "it [modal v] [vb infin] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may cost me my job , but so far the PM has backed me . ’ |
| 2 | It may make me sound as if I 'm in training for a Blue Peter badge , but it works . |
| 3 | It may take me a little longer but … ’ he smiled , and his confidence made her dislike him more than ever , ‘ I promise you I shall get there in the end . ’ |
| 4 | It may help me more indirectly by alerting me to the fact that I may be wrong , and forcing me to reason again to double check my conclusion . |
| 5 | If anything , it should help me with my leg speed . ’ |
| 6 | If anything , it should help me with my leg speed . ’ |
| 7 | How ironic that it should take me so long to know how I feel about a man and then in that same moment realise that he really is the bastard I first took him for ! |
| 8 | It should take me twenty-five or thirty days |
| 9 | It was odds on that the cops had got to him by now , but in case they had n't it might pay me to square things with him . |
| 10 | I do n't think it will make me a vegetarian but it might make me think about it . |
| 11 | Perhaps he thought it might make me nip up a bit quicker with his morning tray . ’ |
| 12 | I think that the real reason that I wanted to do Total recall was that I knew it might make me famous which then might help me get better parts . |
| 13 | I could s I I even though it might make me a lot of money because I know that if I got if I made a dozen phone calls and did n't get any deals I 'd be out there wanting play the er I would n't trust myself . |
| 14 | I do n't think any prison will make me better , but it might make me not come back . |
| 15 | If Patrick was homosexual then it might sadden me , but it would n't shock me . " |
| 16 | ‘ But you think it might bother me . ’ |
| 17 | Do n't know where I could put you , except in me bedroom , only if I did it might send me young man potty . |
| 18 | It might put me off sailing for good ! ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It might suit me . |
| 20 | Shane beamed : ‘ After all this , it might take me a year to get my breath back . ’ |
| 21 | If I 'm in bed , it might take me half a minute to wake up . |
| 22 | ‘ It might take me all summer , but I 'll do it . |
| 23 | it might take me by surprise |
| 24 | ‘ It might save me from being shoved through the door like you . ’ |
| 25 | It did n't occur to you that we go away from here to be private , that our holidays are our own affair , that it might humiliate me to have Edwin Lorrimer know that I ca n't afford to take you to Venice , even on a ten-day package tour . |
| 26 | Oh it 'll stop me |
| 27 | ‘ It 'll give me a chance to get on with my baking an' that then for the WI stall , ’ she said with a nod of approval . |
| 28 | ‘ Well ’ — Joe laughed now — ‘ it 'll give me a bit of practice before I 'm introduced to the real thing , and that should n't be long now . ’ |
| 29 | " But I suppose one of us ought to stay awake ; and if I take the first turn it 'll give me a chance to have a look at your paw , Hlao-roo . |
| 30 | ‘ It 'll give me time to think , ’ said Tim . |