Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Assertions from pupils about what teachers call them may not always be believed by sceptical readers . |
| 2 | Of course , yours may not necessarily be a dress . |
| 3 | Anything that I may lawfully do I may also lawfully threaten to do , whatever the motive or purpose of my threat . |
| 4 | In what I say here I may well not be followed in every respect by one or another scholar , and there are matters open to a different interpretation . |
| 5 | I shall not be with you much longer and I may well not see Italy again . ’ |
| 6 | I may not even hook a fish , for the disturbance of retrieving a float through such shallow water , so close to the fish , would be sure to scare them . |
| 7 | Now he says : ‘ When the chips drop , when I get out , I may not even want to box again . |
| 8 | ‘ I may not yet be family , but I do know enough about you to know you do n't have a stepbrother . ’ |
| 9 | I would need to revise my knowledge of patient/client confidentiality so that I may not inadvertently be in breach of proper professional conduct . |
| 10 | ‘ You forget that my husband 's death has never been proved , so I may not really be a widow , ’ she said , confused . |
| 11 | I may not so much as glance at all those handsome courtiers ! ’ |
| 12 | I may not always be able to offer a Danby or a Holmes ( Holmes is available as I write ) , but I should be considerably embarrassed if I could n't find a good view of the Gorge for a departing new graduate or a returning old one . |
| 13 | I may no longer be the best thing that Limerick has yet produced . |
| 14 | ‘ I may very well not have come in any case , madame . ’ |
| 15 | I shall be in Leicester at any rate , and I may very well come and join you , to talk with you about healthy eating . |
| 16 | I realise I am an obsessive sort of person and I realise I may never totally overcome my transsexual feelings . |
| 17 | If I , if I may then just ex expand that very very briefly , er we have er er Lord , Lord Whitelaw 's silent on the local authority majority but in favour of appointment . |
| 18 | I may therefore not have heard points made to which I wish to refer . |
| 19 | Nizan 's fundamentally manichean personality , his realisation after his return from Aden in 1927 that he had been duped by the alienating structures of the bourgeois educational system , his visceral hatred of a bourgeois class suddenly targeted as the principal enemy , the source of his own alienation ( " I must no longer be afraid to hate . |
| 20 | I must no longer be ashamed to be fanatical . |
| 21 | I must just quickly stress on looking at it very closely last night that only one was in West Sussex . |
| 22 | I I must just now , say one or two very brief things before you disa |
| 23 | They find new ways of sharing what resources there are , whether collaborating in local policing or working with health authorities or whatever it is and I think they form the base for renewal of politics because we have to recreate politics for localities upwards and here , just finally chancing my arm , I must just frankly say that I am not clear that over-large amalgamations of unions will be much more helpful than over-centralized government bureaucracies . |
| 24 | Suppose I must n't really , I 'm reading this morning . |
| 25 | And I must not only sit here and endure all this I must read her account of it at the end of the day , and think of something polite to say about it before I find ways of rewriting and neutralizing it . |
| 26 | Having made my excuses , I must now regretfully become one of those unpopular giants who tells you WHAT TO DO and WHAT NOT TO DO . |
| 27 | If I stayed on at Bletchley — which I was reluctant to leave — I should scarcely ever see Leslie before the invasion of France , which we all knew was expected within a very few months . |
| 28 | Whilst in going to the abbey , I should be exchanging one kind of prison for another , she told herself , I should no longer have to pass my days amongst the remnants of the court ! |
| 29 | You do me great honor in proposing me as your President , & if I did not feel that my acceptance of this favour would tend much to defeat the laudable object of your pursuit I should most certainly gratify my own ambition , & have the pleasure to preside at your meetings . |
| 30 | It was late at night and I decided , I was just sort of talking I 'd say , I ca n't get rid of this headache , and I do n't know what I 'm gon na do , I do n't whether I should just not worry about it cos I 'm not that old , and I was really pouring my heart out to him , and he turns round and he says , yeah , you need a new clutch you really need a new clutch . |