Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them must first pass through a stage of being used within LE by black speakers , before being taken up by the LE speaking community as a whole . |
| 2 | Add to this that everyone should technical be able to get around all the notes ( as well as together and in tune with everyone else ) ! |
| 3 | The Roman senate started off with seconds and decided that sixty of them should equal one minute . |
| 4 | ‘ You never know , Mother ; I may one day move up into society . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 6 | I must first thank you and your colleagues at the Centre for Continuing Education for making my first trip across the Atlantic and to Montreal such an enjoyable and useful one . |
| 7 | By way of background to what follows , I must first state my position on two related issues , since they are issues that may arise over and over again in the discussion of education at the present time . |
| 8 | To explain this reaction , I must first introduce some concepts that help the physicist to describe what is happening in an inversion layer . |
| 9 | I must first of all call on your sister . ’ |
| 10 | Firstly , Clark assumes that all substantives name such ‘ concepts ‘ : ‘ If I can learn a word for something , I must first have grasped that thing as something nameable , whether it be a tree , a cat , a word ’ ( 1982 : 46 ) . |
| 11 | To answer that , I must first say something about how beliefs cause actions . |
| 12 | But I must first finish the tale of how I came to be here . |
| 13 | ‘ I must subordinate my own wishes to the larger world ’ would be a fair summary , highly appropriate to Bilbo at that time . |
| 14 | Having reached the conclusion that there was consideration for the agreement made on June 28 and June 29 , 1973 , I must next consider whether even if that agreement , varying the terms of the original ship-building contract of April 10 , 1972 , was made under a threat to break that original contract and that the various increased instalments were made consequentially under the varied agreement , the increased sums can be recovered as money had and received . |
| 15 | I should good haul . |
| 16 | erm I should first check . |
| 17 | I should first like to congratulate all those who work in and on achieving second Queen 's Awards for Export . |
| 18 | I should first like to express again the Society 's pleasure at having had the benefit of Bedu 's teaching at the Easter Course . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It never crossed my mind that I might one day have to fight . |
| 22 | They say I had the vanity to suppose that he and I might one day share the authorship of some literary work . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , and I might one day be Queen of England ! |
| 24 | Well I might this , this , the time fitting in with the families , they 're , they 're likely to come back |
| 25 | Well I do n't , I 'm bread and I might some of it on the top . |
| 26 | I 'll five hundred for your card . |
| 27 | Then I 'll get-rich-quick . ’ |
| 28 | 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 |
| 29 | Well I 'll c I 'll that later . |
| 30 | Oh I 'll that one out then . |