Example sentences of "i [modal v] [vb infin] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shall not be gratified for a benefit , although I may return it in the hope of future benefits ; similarly I shall not avenge injuries except as a deterrent to future injuries . |
| 2 | If I may ask you about the window ? |
| 3 | I may see you on the same plane . ’ |
| 4 | I may see you in the shop one of these days . ’ |
| 5 | If we can not guess Jacob 's motives , the storyteller makes them plain : ‘ I may appease him with the present that goes before me , and afterwards I shall see his face ; perhaps he will accept me . ’ |
| 6 | If you have any other items you wish to raise at the meeting , please advise me beforehand so that I may include them on the agenda . |
| 7 | Indeed some of us think we now know what bankers in the republic felt like , if you stand up to make a speech the matter has moved on before you sit down again but I must tell you of the next major problem . |
| 8 | I must tell you about the pet shop . ’ |
| 9 | Now , I must welcome him at the door . |
| 10 | When I hear the attacks on that modest , even cautious , and certainly prudent programme , I must compare it with the gross waste of public money in which the Government have indulged . |
| 11 | ‘ I regret I must leave you at the door , Lady Isabel . |
| 12 | We had no sooner got out of the supermarket 's doors than the wee imp said he was tired and I must carry him to the car . |
| 13 | But … if they 're family heirlooms then however much I want them , I must return them to the family where they belong , ’ she said dazedly . |
| 14 | He said , ‘ I must return it to the half-mortals , for only they in all the worlds can keep it safe now . ’ ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Silver , ’ he said , ‘ you 're a scoundrel and a murderer , but I 'm told that I must save you from the law . ’ |
| 16 | I have n't sent it because I thought I must read it to the meeting . |
| 17 | I knew I should throw her to the patrol and make my own getaway , but she appealed to the chink in my armour . |
| 18 | Your mother was saying perhaps I should give it to the kids , half to you , half to Debbie , but I said , no . |
| 19 | We have not yet resolved all the detail but I should tell you about the key aspects of these changes so that we can go forward together to put the new arrangements successfully in place . |
| 20 | Coming upon me as it did , however , in the midst of such a busy period , I could not afford to let it preoccupy me unduly , and I thus decided I should resolve it at the earliest opportunity . |
| 21 | You think I should show it in the future years ? |
| 22 | I think I should regard me with the contempt with which I myself regard the more vulgar visitors . ’ |
| 23 | I should hit him across the back of the neck like a rabbit . |
| 24 | I should put it to the old man right away . " |
| 25 | Of course , I should put it on the market , but dreams die hard … ’ |
| 26 | It 's as though the superego suddenly stops functioning , though why I should describe it in the kind of shit jargon dreamed up by that Jewish prick Freud is beyond me . |
| 27 | I felt I should include them in the list if only so that you could see the limited choice at present available . |
| 28 | As I looked at her , I thought of her shrinking , like someone in a fairytale , and how one day I might hold her in the palm of my hand with her little voice squeaking commands at me as if she was a mouse I 'd picked up in the garden . |
| 29 | I 'd found some bunches of violets that were n't much good , but I thought I might sell them in the pub , or that some kind gent might treat me to a sandwich . |
| 30 | " But I thought I might catch them in the act . |