Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Excuse me let's eat tonight mind . |
| 2 | Investors are reminded that as a consequence of the general nature of the investments held and of possible exchange and interest rate fluctuations , the value of their shares and the yield from them may go down as well as up and that past performance is no guide to the future . |
| 3 | Others among them may form consistently unfortunate or unhappy heterosexual relationships without realising the true reason for their failures in this area ; for these , realisation of their homosexual needs and urges could be a step towards release from a heterosexual bondage . |
| 4 | Beauty is often the object of envy by a plain person , yet people whose prettiness as children captivated the adults around them may grow up with a severe disadvantage . |
| 5 | I have passed it round the various organisations within the parish and some of them may reply directly to your office . |
| 6 | Under the present definition of such schemes , the beneficiaries of them may include not only present employees of the company concerned , but also employees , or former employees , of it or any company in the same group , and the spouses , widows or widowers , children or step-children under the age of 18 , of any such employees . |
| 7 | Although most of these techniques are expensive and difficult to use , it is possible that at least some of them may become more easily available ; they can be very useful both for discovering in detail how English speakers produce their speech sounds , and for demonstrating to learners of English their pronunciation errors in a way that helps them to correct them . |
| 8 | A further great grievance that exists in this force in the Division where I am is that the Section Sergeant dare not enter any Station while he is on duty unless he signs the main station book ; yet the plain clothes P.C.s and Detective Constables , and even uniform P.C.s can go into the Station as often as they think and there is no order that any of them must sign in and out . |
| 9 | Each of them must tread on and on , a ceaseless , bone-grinding trudge , if they did not want to be taken up and up by the gyrating treadmill into the clanking , turning cogs in the roof and ground to dust between the pinions . |
| 10 | We 're looking for the funny , the beautiful , the weird and the wonderful , family pictures and holiday snaps , but each of them must have that little extra something … . |
| 11 | If they are not athletically fit they may not be able to hunt for a while and this could be critical , as most of them must kill regularly to survive . |
| 12 | of them should go straight on to the beat . |
| 13 | The idea was that a group of them should take back the second of the Shahs planes to Teheran , contact those military commanders known to be most loyal to the Shah and convince them to hijack Khomeinis plane when , as the assumed he would , he flew back to Teheran from Paris . |
| 14 | I had suggested in the note that , as it was then three-fifteen , rather than their breaking camp , one of them should drive back and take me to where they were for the night and back to the village next morning . |
| 15 | ‘ Give me a light that I may tread safely |
| 16 | I SAID to the man who stood at the gate of the year , ‘ Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown ’ . |
| 17 | In choices of means , I may pay severely for failing to recognize the equality of personal as of spatial and temporal viewpoints , if for example I lose awareness of the fact that a competitor 's need and determination is as great as mine ; but in choosing between our ends , nothing compels me to feel the pull of his inclination equally with mine , other than a recognition that it is illogical to shut my eyes in one case to what I am forced to acknowledge in the other . |
| 18 | ‘ We live in a monarchy , and if I may speak personally , I hope and believe we always will . |
| 19 | Tell me that , so I may hope still to find , one day , a man of pure heart . |
| 20 | Similar impressions seem to arise from sentences such as I may leave tomorrow and I can finish it next week . |
| 21 | I may end up taking them off completely though . |
| 22 | But if I may make so bold — will you be careful of my master ? |
| 23 | " Well , " she said , looking at them in turn again , lifting her face to gaze directly at Graham , " if I may make so bold , chaps , how about a drink ? |
| 24 | Er they were very fair er if I may bring in er this has nothing to do with my er well no it has as well . |
| 25 | When I started refereeing in the 1960s the props ' attitude was : ‘ I may go backwards in a scrummage , but I will never go down ’ . |
| 26 | I may go through for a day you know . |
| 27 | Now as part of an annual goal which is to run some public courses later on in the year , erm , I 've broken that down in a way that I may go through later , to things that I have to do on , on a month by month basis , and this month I need to create the mailing list . |
| 28 | I may go through for a day you know . |
| 29 | ‘ You mean I may go soon ? ’ |
| 30 | I , I , I , if I may go on an and er make some other comments on it i is that appropriate or should I wait for that are we still talking about the by-pass ? |