Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever abstract mathematical objects I may choose to represent energy or momentum , the consequence of actually measuring them is the concrete one of finding that I have present so many units of whatever it is . |
| 2 | That is to say , I may have appeared calm , but inside anxiety raged . |
| 3 | I may have to use varnish stripper . |
| 4 | And reaching 30 in a recession is a special problem in itself — I may have to tread water in my career for some years because there is no chink of promotion in my business . |
| 5 | Did I tell you I may have to have surgery ? |
| 6 | In my long journey I may have acquired illness and age , but I had gathered something too . |
| 7 | Now I must go to say goodbye to Tess Darrell , and apologise for half-trained servant girls . |
| 8 | Ah , ’ she murmured , ‘ I must go to see cook about dinner . ’ |
| 9 | To decide , I require not only facts but awareness of how it is likely to feel passing my declining years in that village , and for that I must try to achieve independence of my personal and present viewpoint , reduce it to equality with other viewpoints . |
| 10 | If the hon. Gentleman will forgive me , following the example of the hon. Member for Huddersfield , I must try to make progress in the interests of speed . |
| 11 | Then I must have lost consciousness . ’ |
| 12 | I think I must have expressed dissatisfaction with the ‘ Poetry and Propaganda ’ article , because , like others that I had submitted to him up to that point , it was never to appear . |
| 13 | This was just as well , because I must have looked pea green , and it did n't make me feel any better to watch Olive sitting up front chatting to the pilot and navigator , obviously having the time of her life . |
| 14 | ‘ I must have taken leave of my senses ! ’ |
| 15 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 16 | I must have wasted money on four or five that are hopeless . |
| 17 | In spite of what you have said , I should prefer to obtain satisfaction for past injuries from yourself than from either King James or his mother . ’ |
| 18 | Very quickly erm er the Mrs said that er yes I do have a direct er line to God and one of the messages he did give me was that I should start to write Focus . |
| 19 | I came away from the Oxford seminar with a clear idea in my mind about what I should do to stimulate discussion on this subject in Wales . |
| 20 | Mum was somewhat cross and suggested that I should go to meet Dad who had gone to his allotment and confess my indiscretion . |
| 21 | I should like to take part in the epic-reading planned for 26 May if you have some passages available . |
| 22 | Yes Chairman erm , I 'm , I should like to draw attention to the paragraph three , two and wonder what happened to three , three , because er we see it goes from my copy goes from three , two , to three , four , so er I do n't know whether there is anything in three , three that I have forgotten , but I , I assume now that I which they 're are two other . |
| 23 | I should like to pay tribute to the care with which the justices record the family history and the chronology . |
| 24 | If my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State does not object , I should like to pay tribute to the Government 's overall strategy . |
| 25 | ‘ I should like to make life beautiful — I mean everybody 's life , ’ she later remarks . |
| 26 | I should like to make progress . |
| 27 | I should say give Sophy a Dollar , and I will think of the men when I return . |
| 28 | But I should have sent word . ’ |
| 29 | I thought by now I should be at home , I thought by now I should have secured peace , or died honourably in the attempt . |
| 30 | I did n't go till about half ten ah no cos I had a few letters and stuff to write first and I thought right I 'll just take me time and , cos I wanted to I did n't wan na go faster than you know than I should , I should have done sort of thing cos I wanted to time it properly . |