Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] [to-vb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may have to spend a lot of my time in Scotland now — perhaps even look for a Scottish constituency — and your work is in London . ’ |
| 2 | I may have to learn a notion of proof different from that to which I am accustomed . |
| 3 | If Marie Gibbs ' time course was right , I should expect to find a sequence of cellular changes in left and perhaps right IMHV and/ or LPO , associated with the several phases of memory formation , in the minutes to hours following the bird 's pecking at the bitter bead . |
| 4 | I should love to read a reference by her for a maid leaving her employment … . |
| 5 | ‘ By the way , landlord , my friend and I should like to hire a room here tomorrow evening , for about an hour , from seven-thirty . |
| 6 | " I should like to visit a boutique , " said Heinrich . |
| 7 | At this point , I should like to clarify a question or two which the reader may find puzzling , such as anti-semitism . |
| 8 | Certainly I should like to see a branch in Leicester . |
| 9 | I should like to suggest a way in which it is possible to give something for nothing . |
| 10 | 'I think I should like to have a look at it , ’ says Serafin very politely , ‘ if I might . ’ |
| 11 | I should like to have a ride down and see that new bridge now . |
| 12 | And then I should like to buy a cow perhaps and maybe a pig . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I should like to buy a sponge before they all go . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Well , ’ said Dyson , chewing hard , ‘ 1 must admit that I should like to make a name for myself , just for its own sake . ’ |
| 15 | I should like to make a couple of points about the Bill 's two substantive provisions before turning to its hidden agenda . |
| 16 | Therefore , I should like to make a suggestion , which I know will be regarded as special pleading . |
| 17 | With permission , Mr. Speaker , I should like to make a statement on public expenditure in Scotland . |
| 18 | With permission , Mr. Speaker , I should like to make a statement on the European Council in Maastricht which I attended with my right hon. Friends the Foreign Secretary and the Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 19 | With permission , Mr. Speaker , I should like to make a statement about the Government 's legislative intentions , following the consultation on the Green Paper ’ Industrial Relations in the 1990s ’ , which was published in July last year . |
| 20 | With permission , Mr. Speaker , I should like to make a statement about President Yeltsin 's visit to London on 30 January and about the special meeting of the UN Security Council in New York on 31 January . |
| 21 | ‘ Accepting — if I am to consent , I should like to make a condition or two — ‘ |
| 22 | I knew that I should have to make a decision . |
| 23 | It was in 1929 , aged about 30 , that Winterbotham came to the momentous realisation , worthy of Bertie Wooster , that ‘ I should have to get a job ’ . |
| 24 | She suggested I might like to write a letter to head office . |
| 25 | ‘ Because if you try to do anything so misguided I might have to give a Press interview to explain just why I got under your skin so badly ! ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I might have to stretch a point for Rory Collins . ’ |
| 27 | If it was definitely linked to her death I might have to break a promise — which I 'd hate doing because the repercussions for the crew could be very serious — but it 's too vague to go to Foucard and run risks with other people 's livelihoods . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I 'll endeavour to employ a shade more vigilance than you did , ’ she returned lightly , then cocked her head to one side as she heard the sound of a siren . |
| 29 | I 'll need to make a telephone call to Mike … |
| 30 | Alright , she 'll be expecting she reckons she 's due on the twenty third of March , but the hospital say it 's , it 's the twenty ninth , so it 'll be next week , I 'll have to give a ring , we went to see her the other week , to see how she was , erm we went round er one night , I rung her up to see if she 'd be in , I said right we 'll be round for an hour |