Example sentences of "[conj] i [modal v] [verb] [verb] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 'd better not tell anyone where you got this from , or I 'll have to move my business to Napata , ’ said Nubenehem seriously . |
| 2 | Q Although I 'd love to fill my home with baskets of potpourri , ornaments , vases , dried-flower arrangements and all the accessories I often read about in Ideal Home , my problem is the children . |
| 3 | No , although I 'd like to have my own farm , I 'll stay with you , and you know why . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Dear lady , dear lady , to think that I might have lived my whole life through and never seen you . |
| 5 | Looking back I am increasingly grateful to the many people who took a share in this fortunate happening , though now I realise that I might have expressed my gratitude to them more often and more appreciatively . |
| 6 | I listened with astonishment to the view that I might consider loving my cancer , for it did remind me that all was not well with myself , and not just physically . |
| 7 | There may be more to this than meets the eye ( if you 'll excuse the pun ) as just once in a while I have taken zander during the daytime in water that has been so clear that I would have rated my chances as zero . |
| 8 | I distinctly remember feeling guilty at thinking that I would have to lock my car so these children would n't steal my cameras . |
| 9 | I would have been sorrier still if she had not paraded her distress so openly , sighing and staring into space and insisting that Richard should buy her whisky , which is expensive in Morocco — in her place I should have been so humiliated and ashamed that I would have done my best to put a good face on it — but I was sorry enough to agree that she should come with us , in our car . |
| 10 | I was certainly to do with feeling that I would have to be a little bit slimmer , that I would have to be acceptable to other people , that I would have to change my shape and at the same time , I could not resist consuming large amounts of food . |
| 11 | I knew in advance that I would have to retrace my steps on this road , to get to the Skye boat at the Kyle of Lochalsh , as there is nowadays only a summer ferry to the island from Glenelg . |
| 12 | Welfare Assistant with Infants class gave me her telephone number so that I can arrange to have my hair highlighted by her daughter . |
| 13 | I 'm not the sort who can go out with someone unless my feelings were so deep that I can imagine spending my life with them , and having a child . |
| 14 | In recent years , it 's been nice to know that I could decide to take my wife Lizzie on Concorde and not have to ask permission from the bank manager , but I 've never really gone in for extravagances — they all add up to too many paper rounds . |
| 15 | The nineteenth-century physiologist , physicist and psychologist , von Helmholtz , who contributed substantially to every discipline that he engaged in , described the process thus : It was always necessary , first of all , that I should have turned my problem over on all sides to such an extent that I had all its angles and complexities " in my head " and could run through them freely without writing … |
| 16 | ‘ They told me that I should have put my whip down and tried to stop my horse from hanging . ’ |
| 17 | I do n't think that even though by next year I would be a bit better of in the sense that I should have sold my house bought something cheaper and have some capital invested so that I have a little extra monthly income . |
| 18 | Yes , yes I do n't think that on our next buy , what with the next year I would be a bit better off in the sense that I should have sold my house , bought something cheaper and have some capital invested so I have a little extra monthly income , I should be living in somewhere that 's cheaper to run |
| 19 | ‘ Meaning that I should have trusted my first impressions of you . ’ |
| 20 | The sickening that I was making a mess of the first real pitch of the first real pitch of IV± , and that I 'd have to take my sack off if I was going to stay on , swept over me . |
| 21 | I could not have done these things any more than I could have killed my mother . |
| 22 | There was no reply , so I would have to contain my curiosity until I got to the golf course . |
| 23 | Er and I would want to express my deepest sympathy to police constable Dunn 's family . |
| 24 | The fact that this is happening so widely does not make it any less unwelcome , and I would like to express my own thanks to staff for their steadfastness and continuing hard work in these conditions . |
| 25 | I s certainly shall not stint in my praise of the fund and I would like to add my congratulations on behalf of the government at the recognition that the charities aid foundation has granted to the fund in making it er the charity of the year this year . |
| 26 | ‘ It would have been another 17 or 18 years before we could have had this vote again and I would have lost my chance . ’ |
| 27 | With only two gallons of water left there was no chance of washing and I would have to cut my consumption by half . |
| 28 | ‘ I want Steve to have something good to remember , and I 'd like to fulfil my own dream before it 's too late . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's the tail rotors that do the damage — and I 'd hate to spend my afternoon scraping you off the roof . ’ |
| 30 | Much of the methodology described in this chapter is derived from work in Dr Martin H Johnson 's laboratory , Department of Anatomy , Cambridge , during the past 10 years and I should like to express my gratitude to all members of the laboratory past and present for their contribution to it . |