Example sentences of "i [modal v] [vb infin] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I may make one suggestion to the South Africans that is meant to be helpful , it is this : call on Bob Burrows , the ITV producer who was in charge of the Rugby World Cup in this country , and invite him to be your consultant . |
| 2 | Someday I may meet another mammoth . |
| 3 | Please can you tell me where I may purchase some dog 's tooth violets . |
| 4 | If he stims me much more , I know that I may seek such stimming again , however unwillingly . |
| 5 | Steve and I may see each other six times a week if we 're racing . |
| 6 | I may gain more acceptance . |
| 7 | I may have the gift of inspired preaching ; I may have all knowledge and understand all secrets ; I may have all the faith needed to move mountains — but if I have no love , I am nothing . |
| 8 | Hence , I may have great difficulty in answering a relatively simple question like ‘ Why do you put so much energy into your career ? ’ and I would have even more difficulty in deciding how much energy 1 should put into my career and how much into my family . |
| 9 | I may have more luck . ’ |
| 10 | I wo n't write a word more now , but go to my work , cool down , go out , and in the evening post this letter with proofs of my regret , though not recantation , and also proofs of some joy or success I may have this afternoon in fields now rejoicing in sunshine after rain , — to delight my own sweet little one , too tolerant , too childishly submissive , not by nature , which would be weak , but by love for me , which is strength . |
| 11 | But a mathematician should be taught to try to take me with him , so that I may have some appreciation of what he is doing , and why he enjoys doing it . |
| 12 | ‘ I may have another drink , I may not , ’ Newman replied , looking at Corduroy Jacket . |
| 13 | ‘ Thee I invoke , oh our Emperor , ’ he prayed , the formula glowing neon in his mind 's eye , ‘ that thou wilt infuse these cards this hour ; that thereby I may obtain true insight of things hidden , to thy glory and to the salvation of humanity — ’ |
| 14 | The Government have cut unemployment benefit 11 times since 1979 , making a cumulative ’ saving ’ — if I may use that word — at the expense of the unemployed , of £5 billion to £6 billion over the past decade . |
| 15 | In other words , these things I 've been talking about , map , if I may use that concept again from mathematics , they map to earlier feelings . |
| 16 | Is my hon. Friend — if I may use that term — sure that a solution put forward in this House would be accepted in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic ? |
| 17 | This is only a reflection of larger areas of the church above , that 's if I may use that phrase , which is happening . |
| 18 | The confusion yields when we realize that we have to do with a limited area , however large , and that the ‘ unionists ’ , if I may use this term , made the mistake of extrapolating the ambiguity and interchangeability within this limited area to the whole scope of Mozart 's staccato notation . |
| 19 | ‘ In only the broadest and I may say sloppiest usage of the term would this obsessive little undeadnik be counted as a dybbuk . |
| 20 | He is if I may take this question of the appointment of the independent members , he has certainly separated himself directly from their appointment by having this regional instrument . |
| 21 | Before the hon. Gentleman moves on from his point about the proposal to locate the health common services authority in the old BBC offices at Gabalfa , perhaps I may take some credit for that not having come to pass . |
| 22 | ‘ I must finish this letter . |
| 23 | I must finish this letter , she thought . |
| 24 | And before I go on I must set one thing straight . |
| 25 | I congratulate Yarrow on its good fortune in securing a contract for three ships at once , but I must express some dismay on behalf of Vosper Thornycroft , Southampton , which has built many naval ships in the past . |
| 26 | I must express some surprise that such a notion should have prevailed . |
| 27 | If you find my door closed to you , it 's because I must travel this dark , dangerous road alone . |
| 28 | I must do that bit and that before that . |
| 29 | ‘ What I must do next season is get really , really fit and prove everybody wrong , which I have done about a thousand times . ’ |
| 30 | Oh right , you 've all got drinks and you 've all got something to eat , well while you 're doing that then I must do these bingo |