Example sentences of "i [vb mod] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anything that I may lawfully do I may also lawfully threaten to do , whatever the motive or purpose of my threat . |
| 2 | ‘ I may even give you some more . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I may even give you a bonus if Silvia does well in her exams . ’ |
| 4 | In fact I may even have them be in here . |
| 5 | I may well take you up on the offer . ’ |
| 6 | I may well keep you here for your entertainment value . ’ |
| 7 | when I say ‘ I am cold ’ I may just mean I am cold and it may not be a statement about my view of myself with regard to society and my particular stage of middle age crisis and so on and so forth , although , you know , given a certain number of intelligent people they could no doubt build an enormous emphasis on |
| 8 | I may just mean I am cold and |
| 9 | If I may just refer you sir to er my appendix which it actually the last page of your papers erm er if you see on it is actually page numbered thirty one and it 's paragraph thirteen thirty six at the very back of the papers . |
| 10 | Just watch it , said Jay , sipping brandy , breathing fire , I may just stomp you with my hairy great mammoth foot . |
| 11 | I no longer vociferously challenge those who insult ; instead , I may casually invite them to come for a coffee and see/meet some students . |
| 12 | a short preambulum … so that I may gradually learn it by heart . |
| 13 | It really should not strike you as odd that I have been enquiring into your affairs — if I may so phrase it . |
| 14 | My dear friend — if I may so describe him — the previous Foreign Secretary , who resigned from the right hon. Lady 's Government over Europe , was equally thrilled , although he did not express himself — he never does — in quite such colourful language . |
| 15 | Dear Bill ( if I may so call you ) |
| 16 | For another thing , the region is one of the edge of things if I may so put it and that 's why I 'm down here I mean as , as I know when we 're up there we 're at the centre of things , but lots of people do n't |
| 17 | But there it is , and outside and foreign firms will put money in , especially if subsidized by temporary government measures , for as you know , public investment in private industry is judged to be ideologically correct , while public investment for public and community concerns is judged ideologically to be harmful , but the firms are interested in making money out of the region if I may so put it , not in sustaining world promotion and healthy living in the region . |
| 18 | There was a pause and before Wilson could think how to reply , she added , ‘ But I may never see him as a man , ’ in a low voice . |
| 19 | ‘ If those gipsies have taken him I may never see him again , ’ said Angela , trying to keep back the tears . |
| 20 | I may never see you again Elsie but even if I never do I can not change the way I feel . |
| 21 | I may never see you again , but you have Mrs Gracie with you , who will look after the children and the house . |
| 22 | Indeed , I may never complete it , now that we have to move back to England to sort out our difficulties there . ’ |
| 23 | I may never know it in this world but I shall be told it in the next . |
| 24 | The answer seems to be — persons who are so closely and directly affected by my act that I ought reasonably to have them in contemplation as being so affected when I am directing my mind to the acts or omissions which are called into question . ’ |
| 25 | He has since , of course , achieved a political status by which presumably I ought now to judge him , but as a junior voice in a senior assembly I could not resist the conclusion that he was a little too forthcoming , particularly when on one occasion he outraged me by a suggestion that if a common waiting-list was established , consolidating both private and NHS priorities , the NHS patients should have pride of place before private patients came into the reckoning . |
| 26 | If I had been older and wiser at the time , then I would have been sorely tempted to write back ( on Mother 's behalf ) something like this : ‘ My dear son , I must regretfully inform you , not with malice but with sorrow , that money is not easy to come by . |
| 27 | Tolonen 's appointment as General would certainly help in that regard , but I must also show them that I am my own man , not merely my father 's shadow . |
| 28 | I must just tell you this , Laura did make me laugh , cos she said she stood up and she said , I 'm gon na give my talk about cats so I said , fine . |
| 29 | Whatever happens , I must never leave her behind , Martha prayed . |
| 30 | I was a marvellous wife and he was proud of me , he did n't care what I did — I could become Lord Mayor of London for all he cared — only I must never leave him . |