Example sentences of "i [modal v] [verb] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In our various parties , organizations and institutions therefore we urgently need to recognize that most of our programmes , not least the programmes of our conferences and synods if I may leave you together in sin brothers and sisters |
| 2 | Well whatever it , I would like to do after this , my discussion with them on Thursday I may bring it down I do n't know what way , what they 're going to throw in cos I wo n't be |
| 3 | But I did n't mean it then , and who knows , I may mean it now . |
| 4 | If I sit here alone I may reach it yet . " |
| 5 | If I may refer you back to your note of our meeting on 18 January you recommended a more hardline wording for 15.1 and 15.2 on the main course , which ( given the less-direct competitive nature of the components ) we were willing to go more gently with on the video and Activity Book . |
| 6 | ‘ Anyroad , Bob 'll already have set off and I may meet him up on t'tops . ’ |
| 7 | Just before we go we are going to hear a recording of a song that 's been referred to which I think is called the greatest love of all which I 'm told we 'll all know by heart er this time next year hmm erm anyway on that note if I may thank you very , very much indeed and I leave you with best wishes for a highly , highly successful birthday year . |
| 8 | If I may broaden it away from erm the Cardinal Newman School and think probably of a lot of East Sussex Comprehensive Schools , I think we have all been , in the schools , in the last few years , working hard to establish this openness , and I think that the closed concept of the school , the school that locks children out at break or locks children out at dinner time , which only allows parents to come in for a phoney Open Day when there are a few children there , they are things largely , I think , of the past and they are the closed society . |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps I may call you there ? ’ |
| 10 | If the house was above the road , it came from it , and cross 'd the way to run to another ; if the house was below us , it cross 'd us from some other distant house above it , and at every considerable house was a manufactory or work-house , and as they could not do their business without water , the little streams were so parted and guided by gutters and pipes , and by turning and dividing the streams , that none of those houses were without a river , if I may call it so , running into and through their work-houses . |
| 11 | Must now conclude trusting my dear that every blessing will attend you and trusting I may find you well when I return — kiss dear Fritz [ ? ] for me and believe me to remain Eliza |
| 12 | Yet if I say I love him , she thought , watching his capable hands on the wheel , I may frighten him away . |
| 13 | I 'll not need anyone till about lunch-time so you have your sleep in , but I may ring you up after that . |
| 14 | However , what the hon. Gentleman says is a new one on me , if I may put it as basically as that . |
| 15 | But resurrection to a Messianic Kingdom is surely implied in the words of the mother of the Seven Martyrs in II Maccabees : " Fear not this executioner , but proving thyself worthy of thy brethren , accept thy death that in the mercy of God I may receive thee again with thy brethren . " |
| 16 | I may take you back to the Bab el Khalk and ask you . ’ |
| 17 | She thought : I ought to leave him here . |
| 18 | Though what I am trying to do is just explore all these possible lines of thoughts erm in a political way , alright , but they do n't work out neatly and these critics got quite excited about so I thought I ought to point them out to you but you 're quite right in pointing out that they do n't work out neatly , O K. So we 've got to , where have we got to with George ? |
| 19 | ‘ But I 've been wondering whether I ought to consult someone professionally about it . ’ |
| 20 | Because it said on the packet you 'll plant them immediately after buying and we do n't know when Aunty Gwen bought them and it might rain tomorrow as well , I think I ought to put them in while it 's fine , now |
| 21 | ‘ I ought to put you over my knee for that , ’ he gritted out . |
| 22 | He said , ‘ Perhaps I ought to take you home . ’ |
| 23 | I ought to take you back to your own room . ’ |
| 24 | I think I ought to see her again — just once , to reassure myself that all the old feelings really are as dead as I believe . |
| 25 | I 'm not quite sure what I ought to tell you yet . |
| 26 | ‘ Perhaps I ought to warn her tonight that you know . ’ |
| 27 | I ought to warn him too . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I ought to make it quite clear to you , ma'am , ’ he murmured in the taxi , ‘ that any knickers you may be wearing may well be taken down and used in evidence . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ You 've told me who you are , ’ Veronica continued , ‘ so I ought to introduce myself properly . |
| 30 | ‘ I ought to hand you over to the police . |