Example sentences of "i [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may even have said in the spirit of the joke that it had been one hundred and fifty-six whores , for all the world as though it was of an obsessive importance for the actual number to be known with absolute accuracy ! |
| 2 | It may well be the case , as Struan says , that Beethoven displays more artistic merit than Struan , but if Struan 's music uses overdriven guitars , I may well prefer to listen to it . |
| 3 | Though I may well seem aged to you , Jo , I 'm not yet that old . ’ |
| 4 | I realise that , if I am accepted , once I have completed my degree I may often have to work for over 80 hours at a stretch during a weekend on call . |
| 5 | I may indeed want to stand by women living in less fortunate circumstances than I today . |
| 6 | I must never forget to think about her feelings ! ’ |
| 7 | Had circumstances been different , I should probably have travelled in Europe during my university days . |
| 8 | Some formidable and even frightening features of the familiar landscape have disappeared , and obviously that is to our great content , but elsewhere there are new commotions and new uncertainties , and I should also like to deal with some of those . |
| 9 | ‘ I should hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen in their elegant but confined houses , ’ Charlotte Bronte writes in 1848 , reporting the sensations of a reader rather than commenting upon description , for Jane Austen 's contexts are , like Richardson 's , still sensed rather than seen . |
| 10 | ‘ I should never have gone to the hairdresser — ’ |
| 11 | I should never have started in the first place . |
| 12 | I might just have thought of some new names to call you . ’ |
| 13 | I might even have griped about my existence with the Gorengs and thought wistfully of alternatives . |
| 14 | It had an embryonic artistic colony of sorts ; the kind of place I might plausibly choose to go to . |
| 15 | The dead are impersonal , and so perhaps it is of no especial moment that they should be disturbed — or so I might once have argued on Victor 's behalf . |
| 16 | I mention these examples thankfully — they are all to do with spiritual direction and have brought learning that I might never have received within one tradition alone . |
| 17 | But for that prayer , I might never have thought of nourishment ( not for her , anyhow ) . |
| 18 | I 'll even get married for five years if you want . |
| 19 | Finally the th county picked up its responsibility again but the damage had been done and er grass cutting never seems to have recovered in some areas on the that I 'll just try to describe in a few words . |
| 20 | Since you wo n't tell me , I suppose I 'll just have to plod through the whole book . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 'll just have to wait for Dad then , wo n't I ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I 'll just have to dip for it , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Oh I 'll just have to go to the shop . |
| 24 | Hello seven three one eight , no Roger 's off duty at the moment it 's Chris here erm , he should be , hang on I 'll just have to look at the watch roster and check up on precisely what his movements are , erm just look through tomorrow and I can find the right page in the roster here , er , two thir yeah , he 'll be on tower , so he 'll be in first thing tomorrow from about seven , seven o'clock onwards . |
| 25 | cos if I find that I ca n't find something , I 'll just have to look like |
| 26 | ‘ I suppose I 'll just have to think of something else . ’ |
| 27 | But my Dad thinks : ‘ I 'll soon get shot of them ! ’ |
| 28 | I 'll probably get arrested for looking suspicious . |
| 29 | ‘ If Steve does n't come back for a few days I 'll probably have to go into Palma and see the airlines and the tourist board myself . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ It 's so difficult to remember , but I 've said this before , so I 'll probably have to stick to it . ’ |