Example sentences of "i [modal v] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ You never know , Mother ; I may one day move up into society .
2 ‘ He has just told me that if I continue in my present path , remain the fine , upstanding , clean-living boy I so evidently am , I may one day hope — wait for it — to be elected to — Gracious heavens ! — the Cullbridge Athenaeum ! ’
3 I should good haul .
4 Still , however , I cherished the fantasy that I might one day have a son who would fulfil that dream , and always he had Leslie 's eyes , dark , with soft expressive light .
5 I made no notes of these visits to Out Patients , for at the time I had no idea that I might one day feel my experience with cancer sufficiently interesting to write about .
6 It never crossed my mind that I might one day have to fight .
7 They say I had the vanity to suppose that he and I might one day share the authorship of some literary work .
8 ‘ Yes , and I might one day be Queen of England !
9 Anyway I wo n't say any more because I 'll other people will eventually go but Hugh Berger is a gentleman who owns it or who lives in it at this time
10 You 're going very slowly , I 'll these batteries there 's the problem , there 's little diagram to sort of think about it in terms of water .
11 I had dressed as well as I could that morning , in more or less the same stuff I 'd worn for Grandma Margot 's funeral .
12 I said I wish I could happy go lucky like that I do n't think she re , she rings me up , you do n't wan na ring me !
13 ‘ Do n't see how I can unless I manage to shift one way or the other , and I need both hands for that .
14 I finished up in Rome , home to so many of the works I lectured on , and on my last night there I took a walk down to Bernini 's Trevi fountain in order to throw in the coin that would ensure that somehow I would one day return .
15 I was secretly hoping I would one day find a way of escaping and returning to my own country .
16 On Raglan Road on an autumn day I saw her first , and knew That her dark hair would weave a snare that I would one day rue I saw the danger , then I walked along the enchanted way And I said let grief be a falling leaf At the dawning of the day …
17 At this rate , I shall one day be able to put together a complete Pictures and Requiem …
18 Whether my knowledge that I shall some day die , that a nuclear war is likely sooner or later , that alcohol will kill me , that another person is suffering , does move me in one direction or another , depends on the extent of my disposition to take these things into account in choices , on awareness which may spontaneously vary from one moment to the next and be sustainable only by an effort of will .
19 ‘ Perhaps I will one day .
20 But I will one day .
21 The wife and child that Tod and I will one day have .
22 And I will next year .
23 I will any way .
24 I tell you I can break this bond , and maybe I will this time and leave you to starve , and maybe I wo n't , maybe I 'll leave that pleasure for another time .
25 But I will this time , and that 's a promise ! ’
26 Alright then , I will this time .
27 Yeah , oh aye I can , I can , I can some conversation
28 In fact , I do n't think I can this week , " Sara added in a rush .
29 ‘ I 'd normally vote Labour , ’ she said , ‘ but I do n't think I can this time . ’
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