Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [be] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The administrative effort involved in collecting them should be devoted instead to improving enforcement of other taxes , ’ argued a recent International Monetary Fund study . |
| 2 | He may condescend perhaps to think I may be good enough for his harlot and these things do n't disgrace men that ruin poor women as the world goes . |
| 3 | ‘ My dear girl , I may be moronic as far as modern music is concerned , but I have attended classical concerts in my time . |
| 4 | I think I do n't know , I may be wrong there but erm |
| 5 | I think by the weekend I may be happier still . ’ |
| 6 | If I 'm like my dad , I must be nasty too . ’ |
| 7 | I must be calm now or I wo n't enjoy my outing . |
| 8 | I must be precise here : the woman forgot how to hate him — the child feels it as keenly as ever . |
| 9 | Still , I warrant I must be hydrocephalic anyway , or at any rate inoculated against swollen-headedness , eh ? ’ |
| 10 | The chairman said yesterday : ‘ I sat down on Sunday and thought ‘ I must be mad not to go for Kendall ’ and I revived the deal on Monday . ’ |
| 11 | The chairman said yesterday : ‘ I sat down on Sunday and thought ‘ I must be mad not to go for Kendall ’ and I revived the deal on Monday . ’ |
| 12 | He said that I must be mad not to have told him . |
| 13 | I must be mad wilfully to deny myself this ultimate creative act , this absolute satisfaction , the most passionate love affair of many women 's lives . |
| 14 | ‘ She told the doctor at the orphanage , ‘ If I 'm going to go to England for a short time I must be careful not to give too much of my love , but if I 'm going to be there for a long time I can give all the love I can ’ , ’ Mike says . |
| 15 | Not only that perhaps — I must be careful not to make everything seem too connected — but social and literary life was metamorphosing . |
| 16 | " I must be careful not to get sick or become poor . " |
| 17 | So I must be careful not to find out . |
| 18 | I must be careful here , for while the provision for community education in Scotland is generally more advanced at the level of local authority involvement than in the areas of the USA which I visited , and while organisations such as the Trades Unions , the WEA and others do much to orchestrate various adult education projects , there is nothing which approaches the ‘ schools for problems ’ which Highlander provides . |
| 19 | Given that I wish to stay in these waters I must be careful neither to give offence nor to provoke jealousy . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I must be careful how much love I give ’ |
| 21 | The tide was certainly making now , and if I kept to midstream as near as I could judge it , I should be safe enough — if I put Joanna on the mud , the making tide would soon get her off . |
| 22 | very energetic and I should be alright now after been to sleep should do I 'm alright I ca n't think of anything I wan na get I want up town anyway nothing think of anything |
| 23 | You 've never considered whether I might be bored stiff meeting your work colleagues . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , if this war wound stands up ter walkin' up those stairs I might be able ter get it down ter the dustbin for yer , ’ he said with a grimace . |
| 25 | ‘ I might be 33 soon but that does n't worry me . |
| 26 | ‘ Ian is going to do my farm work , such as it is , but I 'll be sorry not to be able to attend to Mr Jarvis 's pigs . ’ |
| 27 | I 'll be young enough to get a job . |
| 28 | girl I 'll be right here be right here have no fear , have no fear be right here Yeah ? |
| 29 | I 'll be better tomorrow . |
| 30 | Hopefully I 'll be better tomorrow . |