Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Handling and using them may give a sense of the past . |
| 2 | I may make a mess of this but that does n't mean I 'm stupid . |
| 3 | I may need a bit of help . |
| 4 | Dealing generally with the question of art teaching , when addressing himself to the abortive attempt to found a Fine Art course at Oxford in 1922 , he postulated that art schools should , above all else avoid , ‘ The temptation to consider the number of students as a test of success , what I may call a kind of moral and social capitation grant . |
| 5 | If you mind that anyway , cos I may have a couple of people er that may want a few of them to , spoken to Dav , David , he 's got one or two as well . |
| 6 | As you may recall , I may have a meeting of the Education Committee of the British Association of Industrial Editors in London on 29th — though these are always subject to last minute change . |
| 7 | Well if I may raise a number of issues under that report . |
| 8 | Dear Guitarist I am writing this letter in the hope that I may save a lot of Gibson-lovers grief with their pickups . |
| 9 | I 've got that I 've got that I must make a note of this . |
| 10 | If you go to New Hampshire , I mu I must make a study of New Hampshire some time , if you go to New Hampshire , which is a delightful place , if you go to New Hampshire , New Hampshire appears to have no taxation at all as far as I can ascertain and the most favourite er car bumper sticker in New Hampshire is taxation is theft . |
| 11 | But here I must draw a distinction of rather a different kind , namely that between biological relationship and social relationship . |
| 12 | I must append an account of the subsequent policy of the conquerors and their method of universal rule , as well as of the various opinions and appreciations of their rulers entertained by the rest " ( 3.4.4–6 ) . |
| 13 | Erm I remember er thinking one day , erm I must get a photograph of that er building which was clearly a erm er a coal office or similar , I 'll go back at the weekend and get that . |
| 14 | I had an idea that I should make a show of dignity and tried to do this by looking straight ahead , as if the crowds moving up and down the platform were beneath my notice . |
| 15 | I paid every attention to her during a long sickness and , a short time before her death , she requested that I should make a mummy of her body , and keep her beside me — I have kept my word . ’ |
| 16 | Hey , maybe I should make a visicord of you two , sell it down-Level , sell you two down-Level to a doghouse where they do that kind of thing ! |
| 17 | There is a story behind each call , and I should keep a journal of the conversations and then the encounters . |
| 18 | I probably could , but I should get a bit of support from the script-writers . |
| 19 | I should get a cup of tea now should n't I . |
| 20 | I do n't really think that I should get a lot of pleasure out of going to watch croquet tomorrow . |
| 21 | They 've also asked that I should put a drawing of this scheme which they have sent to me in the May edition of the Bramley , with an article from them , explaining it , asking for comments from the public , and this will be their public consultation exercise . |
| 22 | ‘ Well I should need a sort of chaperon in any case , I suppose . |
| 23 | I should have a cup of tea . |
| 24 | At the end of the third weekend I should have an idea of a good swim to fish . |
| 25 | The request that I should receive a consignment of most , if not all , of the issues was obviously impossible to meet ; and although I should much like to have had the ‘ run ’ of Eliot 's bookcase for an afternoon , I felt I could not seek permission , so soon after my arrival at the school , to go to London for that purpose , so I told Eliot that half a dozen well-spaced numbers would suffice for me . |
| 26 | ‘ That I should play a lot of tennis . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Just that : that I should play a lot of tennis . ’ |
| 28 | Yeah but I might want a bit of help with it . |
| 29 | Like , I suppose that way if I was hit I might stand a chance of only losing one arm or one leg . |
| 30 | So he 's waiting to go , so when I think that he 's had a an appointment , I might stand a chance of having one afterwards , I do n't know . |