Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may regard me as an amateur but the fact is that , due to physical difficulties , I can not pull and twist in a horizontal mode and so I invoked gravity to assist . |
| 2 | O God give me the strength to be victorious over myself , for nothing may chain me to this life . |
| 3 | He may throw me among strangers . |
| 4 | I can not believe my luck that nobody else had the sense to carry you off but that you should still be there for me and that — ’ Well , that could be taken two ways , on second thoughts that might not be the thing to say , no ; ‘ my luck that you should want me in the same way that I want you . |
| 5 | ‘ My dear officers , ’ said a rather breathless but still well modulated voice , ‘ of what am I accused that you should treat me like the nucleus of a civil rights demonstration ? |
| 6 | I do n't suffer from ex-hatred myself , assuming that my partner must prefer me to any of her previous lovers or else she would be with one of them . |
| 7 | I think I should regard me with the contempt with which I myself regard the more vulgar visitors . ’ |
| 8 | Having disciplined , explored and contained my own metaphysical anguish , having put down my own last worthy appetites , having separated myself by conscious decision from the filth and decadence of modern society , it is inevitable that my own hard-won sense of propriety or dignity should tempt me into being the scourge of other , more self-indulgent beings , fictional or not . |
| 9 | If you intend to proceed with the appeal on your own , you should contact me for a copy of the relevant parts of the Sheriff Court process . |
| 10 | Anyone requiring further information , should contact me at Mosley Street , Manchester ( Administration Section ) on Extension 23220 . |
| 11 | There 's no real reason he should contact me at all . |
| 12 | That should see me for a while . |
| 13 | You 're my family , and you must meet me at the bridge . ’ |
| 14 | Objectives should not be too general , indeed they should be as specific as possible , e.g. not ‘ Everybody should like me ’ , but that ‘ John should greet me on arrival at work ’ . |
| 15 | You must take me for a fool ! |
| 16 | ‘ You 're ordering me around again , if that 's what you mean , ’ she replied , ‘ and if you think I 'm going to trot obediently upstairs and take off all my clothes you must take me for a fool . ’ |
| 17 | You must hate me for it . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , this should take me about another fortnight . ’ |
| 19 | Even to-day I am still surprised that our history master should have thought it worth while to include in his course a class in Plato 's Republic … or that our English master should take me to his home to show me his excellent library and especially his fine editions of Blake and Donne . |
| 20 | ‘ Now you must tell me about your presents , ’ Faye decreed , turning to Belinda . |
| 21 | Your article should reach me by the first Friday of the month . |
| 22 | What cruel irony it will be if my own uncompromising and innovatory integrity should lead me into the mantraps set by the sort of people who scarcely know one end of a pen from another . |
| 23 | In the circumstances , it was reasonable he should hold me like this . |
| 24 | ‘ Why he should tell me from day one that you were his girlfriend . |
| 25 | After his energetic verse Cade 's prose shows that medium at its most laboured and puffy : ‘ Has my sword therefore broke through London gates , that you should leave me at the white Hart in Southwark ? ’ |
| 26 | I rubbed the noses of one or two under the frowning suspicious gaze of Ms Brown who was not pleased to be told that she should let me in whenever I asked , eh ? |
| 27 | ‘ You must be the one , ’ said the young woman , ‘ You must be the one I have been waiting for , who must release me from enchantment . |
| 28 | Every little thing concerning Jacob turned into a private battle between Rachel and I. When I gave birth to Reuben , I believed that my husband must love me for giving him a son . |
| 29 | ‘ You must address me as Jaq . ’ |
| 30 | If anything , it should help me with my leg speed . ’ |