Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [vb infin] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When trying to guess where someone went when I missed him at the airport I do not imagine his thoughts , I try to imagine his situation as someone like him would see it , and think ; if he tells me he has just learned he has cancer I may hear in imagination the doctor 's grave voice , but I do not imagine the fear , I feel the chill of it ; if I see him cut his finger I do not imagine the pain as something objective before my ‘ mind 's eye ’ , either I look on as though the knife were cutting through cheese or I incipiently wince . |
| 2 | In passing sentence , I must bear in mind that , as a result of your client 's ministrations , the unfortunate patient died . ’ |
| 3 | Yes thank you Chairman erm I think important question very similar question I think we 're we 're all wondering whether the changed landscape of West Sussex , the changed use of West Sussex has had any influence on the flooding and as the County Council has pointed out worst amount of rain we 've had for about seventy years or so I think it 's very useful and important er to ask questions an and when this crisis is over we reflect on what we can learn from it , but I must bear in mind that it is first and foremost extraordinary climatic conditions which have caused these problems and that in itself of course might have implications erm the whole of global warming does tend to come to mind when you see what 's happening in Australia as well as what 's happening here erm that 's certainly not anything that agencies great or small can have any control over . |
| 4 | In the meantime I must move in life , though not alive in it . |
| 5 | Er , it 's certainly what happened to me I must admit in fact it 's certainly been the pattern of my life and er I 'm not surprised what thought , Freud thought was a kind of typical er typical pattern . |
| 6 | I feel I must write in defence of freezebranding having read the News Item ‘ Hoof Branding ’ in September 's issue . |
| 7 | I FEEL I must write in response to Mr. D. Duggan 's letter in RW&P February issue entitled ‘ Welsh Thuggery ’ . |
| 8 | I started losing mine when I was nineteen , and er I must say in answer to that gentleman 's |
| 9 | I must get in touch with er er |
| 10 | Erm I must get in touch with Wendy because we vaguely talked about running on Monday night . |
| 11 | One is , is really , I felt I should reply in support of Mr concerning some of Mr 's remarks . |
| 12 | What does that mean — I should stay in bed ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I should go in case I 'm seen . |
| 14 | But I humoured her , agreeing that she and I should co-operate in order to save my life . |
| 15 | I will want to come back on the same point that 's just been made , but if before I get to that there are some other points that I think I should make in explanation of the lead we have given , if I may call it that , in putting forward the distribution of the Greater York total . |
| 16 | Well , what I think I shall do now is I think I should take this a little further about this union business , I think I should get in touch with Dave , the Editor of the T U C to find out what the exact position of these , this so called union is because it does n't sound like a union to me , it sounds , it sounds like an . |
| 17 | ‘ Is there anything I should know in order to ask the right questions ? ’ |
| 18 | Erm Roosevelt was er despite the er rather unusual route to the presidency , really rather a good president but he had a , he had a very particular view of the presidency which was one which he shared with Lincoln but he took up Lincoln 's arguments and , and developed it further and I quote from er Roosevelt 's autobiography , which is rather more revealing than most autobiographies , erm Roosevelt was n't modest I should say in case you , if you wonder when I read you something . |
| 19 | Yeah , so I will do quite a lot of erm , stuff erm I should say in geography , sort of work in geography for that things . |
| 20 | Can I can I say that in my opinion that the county council 's current budgeting strategy which effectively imposes a two percent efficiency saving which I might add in figures come to something like one point five million erm is , is of concern but what is of greater concern is the further possibility of a four percent er reduction which is being sought in blocks of three percent and one percent next year for ninety four ninety five which is to the amount of two point eight million at the current prices will in my opinion decimate the present level of service provision in policing . |
| 21 | The central statistical office er show regional G T P figures for Cornwall in nineteen ninety one that put Cornwall so badly off er that our G D P is in fact just er seventy three percent of the national average , whilst Devon 's figures are eighty seven percent and I might add in terms of the different progress of the two , in nineteen eighty nine Cornwall 's G D P was seventy five point six percent so it 's actually fallen back whereas Plymouth 's was eighty five point five percent and you 've actually seen it grow . |
| 22 | The only person I ever felt I might fall in love with again in the same way was a Japanese , the poet Takahashi Mutsuo . |
| 23 | " My mother thinks that I might fall in love . " |
| 24 | ‘ What I had n't considered , ’ he said softly , ‘ what had never occurred to me , was that I might fall in love with you . ’ |
| 25 | I might agree in terms of lowland farming where farms are more often controlled by investment groups than by single families , but hill farming has always been , and still is , a hard and often heart-breaking as well as back-breaking job . |
| 26 | Wilson was obviously embarrassed by my statement and sought to identify any particular honorands whom I might have in mind . |
| 27 | And how far do I not accept what I think I might get in order to remain on good terms . |
| 28 | I might get in trouble for that one . |
| 29 | I 'll talk in back slang , if you want . |
| 30 | I 'll stay in bed , Nurse , if you say so . ’ |