Example sentences of "i [vb mod] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have always been desirous of devoting what little capability and energy I may possess to the country which I love most dearly . ’ |
| 2 | I may go to my son 's room and say to him : ‘ Since today is a special day you may play in my study while I work there . ’ |
| 3 | I do n't know if I shall join the company yet , I may do , I may go to Paris , I may die , my face may even turn blue . |
| 4 | Then I may go to the Antarctic , maybe back to the South Pole again , hopefully with Nicky . ’ |
| 5 | I may go to bed early and read me books . |
| 6 | Grant that by my prayers and alms , I may give to each continent what it requires : to Africa , a native clergy of black hands lifting your body ; to Asia , a rich harvest from the red blood , seed of her martyrs ; to Oceania , a necklace of islands made into a Rosary for the faith ; to Europe , already so tired , a renewal of youth at the altar of God ; to America , an exchange of the pearl of great price for material riches . |
| 7 | If I may return to my earlier metaphor — you will excuse my putting it so coarsely — they are like a man who will , at the slightest provocation , tear off his suit and his shirt and run about screaming . |
| 8 | Anyway , if I may return to our Treasurer 's anguished tale , matters became ever worse . |
| 9 | Yes , I readily accept that , er my general proposition is in er connection with the settlement pattern of York , and it is necessary clearly to have er careful regard to that existing settlement pattern , erm if I may refer to the helpful plan that has in fact been produced , I believe by the County Council , it is in fact an appendix to B two zero zero four , er this plan does actually indicate the general extent of the settlements outside the outer ring road of York . |
| 10 | WILLIAMS : I hope I may trust to your discretion not to let Mr. Belville know from whom you had the information . |
| 11 | Thus , I may consent to my daughter 's marriage , to be governed by the decisions of the majority , or to my friend 's handling my financial affairs . |
| 12 | My Lords , if I may revert to the proposition that a person can not consent to the theft of property from himself , it is absurd to suppose that a company consents to the theft of its own property , merely because the thief is for most purposes of the company its directing mind . |
| 13 | I will leave them behind me and go only with the clothes on my back , and then I have two miles and a half and a byway to the town , and bring pretty well dressed I may come to some harm almost as bad as what I ran away from , and then , perhaps , it will be reported I have stolen something , and to carry a bad name to my dear parents … |
| 14 | I may have to nursemaid you , but I 'll be damned if I 'll let you bugger things up for me . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I may have to . ’ |
| 16 | I may agree to decisions which are quite contrary to my own standards . |
| 17 | If I may say to those on the Front Benches too , half-hour speeches would help the whole House . |
| 18 | My Lords , having drafted this speech , I then had the pleasure and advantage of reading in draft the speech to be delivered by my noble and learned friend , Lord Browne-Wilkinson , and concluded that I ought to refer to the company fraud cases which were canvassed before your Lordships , lest it be thought that the Reg. v. Morris [ 1984 ] A.C. 320 statement of principle is inconsistent with a proper approach to such cases . |
| 19 | One gentleman I ought to mention to you in this connection — my friend Mr. Michael Barry tells me — is the writer in ‘ Property and Finance ’ , which some of you may have read . |
| 20 | At the risk of sounding pompous — for this was very basic medicine — I thought I ought to explain to Miss Sowerby just what I was thinking of . |
| 21 | I ought to go to the party . |
| 22 | ‘ I suppose I ought to expect to be bullied . |
| 23 | I ought to write to her at some point . |
| 24 | Well I 'm bothered about her health and that and that 's what I must emphasize to her if she 's listening that er as far as we 're concerned we would want to just give her some sympathy advice and support in relation to this matter . |
| 25 | With my direct pipeline into Rainbow 's thoughts blocked off , I must stoop to guesswork . |
| 26 | First , I must apologise to the House for not being present in the Chamber for some of the earlier speeches . |
| 27 | Having said that , I must apologise to members of the Midlands and Southern Divisions for not being able to ‘ land on their patch ’ . |
| 28 | I feel I must reply to some of the points Mr , Findlay made during the course of the conversation ( I was told that these were not just his views , ie. he had discussed the matter with you ) . |
| 29 | Could , could I say , I must reply to that . |
| 30 | My Lords , that concludes my analysis of what I perceive to be the important British cases but before seeking to draw conclusions therefrom I must refer to certain Commonwealth and American cases . |