Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [verb] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Also , I may have given him the impression , with the urgency of youth possessed of strong convictions , that I wanted at all costs to have something published on this subject .
2 A Celtic pantheon of gods whirled about my head , and I may have got them a bit mixed up here .
3 I may have to send you a hundred miles to Aberdeen .
4 I ought to have brought you a bit more up-to-date with the current situation as far as CVs are concerned here .
5 I loved him ; what more natural than that I should want to give him the chance to love me back ?
6 ‘ Methinks I should contrive to send her a message , suggesting that she pays me another visit . ’
7 For my purpose I should like to call him the man in the jury box , for the moral judgement of society must be something about which any twelve men or women drawn at random might after discussion be expected to be unanimous .
8 Well , having had to avail ourselves of the help of the officer who got rid of our gigantic wasp nest , I should like to say what a superb job they do , but I just wondered in view of the tremendous number , whether there is some kind of way of preventions .
9 I should like to ask her a few questions , such as what she really feels about the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) .
10 If we can put all this point-scoring to one side , I should like to ask him a question concerning several thousand of my constituents .
11 Or are you saying I should have given you a child ? ’
12 I should have given you the benefit of the doubt . ’
13 ‘ I suppose I should have given you the choice before I took matters into my own hands . ’
14 I should have hit him a lot harder in the first place .
15 Yet , when I was seven years old , I should have thought him a very silly little boy indeed not to have understood about metaphorically speaking , even if he had never heard of it , and it does seem that what he possessed in the way of scientific approach he lacked in common sense .
16 I should have told you the Huns have balloons the way you have the runs , but they are short of skilled observers ?
17 I should have taken you a walk tonight .
18 I should have brought you a present , ’ she said .
19 I should have give him a fiver .
20 But if I had expected anything , I should have expected something a little more …
21 When I accepted he suggested I might like to give him a certain sum to help the wine flow .
22 I might have made you a loan , or found some other way to help you out . ’
23 I might have saved myself the trouble , as the family remained together for only a short time afterwards ; my sisters married , leaving only my mother and myself at home …
24 I 'll need to give you an antibiotic as well Jane
25 I 'll need to give you an antibiotic as well Jane
26 I 'll need to show you the ropes . ’
27 I suppose I 'll have to give her a ring .
28 But I 'll have to give him a caution at least .
29 Oh I 'll have to give you a fiver .
30 I 'll have to give you a mark off for that .
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