Example sentences of "i [modal v] [verb] [verb] you " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Because I may decide to re-christen you . |
| 2 | ‘ No , the only thing I regret is that I may have rushed you into something you 're already beginning to repent . |
| 3 | ‘ I may have to arrest you , Chief Inspector , for flirting with a member of Her Majesty 's Security Service . ’ |
| 4 | Lastly , I fear I may have to disappoint you when I say that the coin is more interesting than valuable . |
| 5 | ‘ All right , we 'll leave it at that for the moment , but I may have to see you again . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll leave it at that for the moment but I may have to ask you that question again . |
| 7 | In which case , I may have to seek you out . |
| 8 | Please , above all , remember that I do n't know everything ( though I 'm working on it ! ) — I may have to tell you I ca n't help you rather than pretending otherwise and confusing you . |
| 9 | My lady wife behaved exceptionally badly , as I think I may have told you . |
| 10 | I may have deceived you . |
| 11 | I may have to send you a hundred miles to Aberdeen . |
| 12 | ‘ There is a question I ought to have asked you before , Joe . ’ |
| 13 | Did I ask you most of the questions I ought to have asked you ? |
| 14 | I ought to have stopped you in the beginning — I ought to have walloped you good and hard instead of hiding the things and pretending I did n't know anything about it . |
| 15 | I ought to have stopped you in the beginning — I ought to have walloped you good and hard instead of hiding the things and pretending I did n't know anything about it . |
| 16 | You will say I ought to have informed you I would not part with the boy in such circumstances as you had taken trouble to describe but until I saw the girl I was not sure in my own mind what to do and only made it up when confronted with her and not taking to her at all . |
| 17 | No doubt I ought to have told you it was a trick , but he had made the plan to stop you going to his flat . |
| 18 | Perhaps I ought to have told you before . |
| 19 | I ought to have brought you a bit more up-to-date with the current situation as far as CVs are concerned here . |
| 20 | And now , my dear Sir , having said this much on behalf of this deserving Youth , I must beg to assure you that however zealous my wish to be the means of serving him and his poor Mother , I do not wish , on that account , to influence you — Quite the contrary — I know that in similar cases , your benevolent views have been disappointed , and , perhaps , you have consequently made arrangements for the Future which may render it ineligible to take any youth in the same way as proposed to his Brother — even if you have at present — or are likely in course of a year or two — to have a vacancy . |
| 21 | I must have missed you , cos if I went past Britannia , and I thought ooh they 'll probably still be in there |
| 22 | ‘ As a matter of fact , I must have passed you three or four times without seeing you . |
| 23 | ‘ Gabriel , perhaps I should n't have come , but I — I thought I must have offended you , and that 's why you 're going away . ’ |
| 24 | I 've got a batch of scones in the oven ; I must have known you were coming . |
| 25 | ‘ Miraculously they swept you round to Gullholm , where I must have found you minutes after you got caught in that inlet . ’ |
| 26 | I must have unnerved you , dear boy . |
| 27 | I I must have told you before that what we got er we used to turn and bundle two thousand four hundred , I told you that did n't I ? |
| 28 | Well , th I I must have told you because it 's one of the things that er stand out that on on the day when they dropped the first bomb in I and I I and it was er it 'd be the thirty first of January , but I do n't know whether it was er fifteen or sixteen , nineteen fifteen or nineteen sixteen . |
| 29 | ‘ It ca n't be ; I must have told you many times before this . ’ |
| 30 | I must have bored you out of your mind . ’ |