Example sentences of "i [vb mod] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps some indication of how this reacted on me may be gleaned from memory , One of the medical wing commanders at the hospital — H.E . |
| 2 | How do ye think ye are so fat : It 's me should be complaining . |
| 3 | Now Kathy seems to me should be checked checking the assessor , just as if it was going over the telephone |
| 4 | Was that meant to be that people like me should be doing spot checks , Richard should tell people like me to do spot checks or Richard was going to do spot checks ? |
| 5 | On the other hand , there are in some cases statements of principle in general terms , which do not form part of the ratio decidendi and in others statements in dissenting judgments which it seems to me should be considered when the present question has to be resolved . |
| 6 | I am afraid that I may be watching my own family and friends being killed . |
| 7 | It does not escape me that a fair hand has already written some account of my early days ; but that account broke off too soon , for I returned from the realms of ice , to which solitudes my soul — if I may be presumed to have one — was attracted . |
| 8 | Teach me the glorious lesson that occasionally it is possible that I may be mistaken . |
| 9 | Although I may be mistaken . |
| 10 | Loathsome as he now is , he becomes still more so as he hypocritically professes to Cornwall his filial embarrassment : ‘ How , my lord , I may be censured , that nature thus gives way to loyalty , something fears me to think of … . |
| 11 | Probably were n't I do n't know but they seemed to us I may be looking at it from a child 's eyes but er that 's how they seemed to be to me . |
| 12 | ‘ To think I may be looking at the last of the Corbetts . ’ |
| 13 | I may be subdivided into three elements . |
| 14 | He knew that this was the moment when he should have said firmly : ‘ I may be moving to London , but not with you . ’ |
| 15 | if I strike a child in a manner likely to cause harm it is right that if the child dies I may be charged with manslaughter . |
| 16 | I may be warning you off that Nigel fellow , but I may be worse . |
| 17 | There 's a slide projector at the back of the hall which I can control from the front so I may be aiming to get some slides for you instead of the overhead projector . |
| 18 | Brave Oates , who was born and raised in Mellor 's Putney constituency , told Scott as he left : ‘ I may be gone for some time . ’ |
| 19 | Did you say to her , I 'm going out to re I 'm going out and I may be gone for a long time . |
| 20 | It 's , you know , it 's like what 's his Captain Oates was it , going out into the tent in the Antarctic or something , you know it 's sort of I may be gone for a while , you know , in the in the , into the wilderness and never to return so that in , in the British structure er politicians are , their loyalty is central rather than local because their political futures are determined centrally rather than locally . |
| 21 | The person undertaking , if required to sign , states : " I understand the undertaking that I have given , and that if I break any of my promises to the court I may be sent to prison for contempt of court " . |
| 22 | Working as I do for a technically based industry , I hope I may be forgiven for believing that almost anything can be achieved through technology , if we are dear enough about what is needed . |
| 23 | It is as though the Prime Minister is trying to paint a canvas in the style of Georges Seurat , if I may be forgiven for referring to a continental artist . |
| 24 | I tried to find out — I may be forgiven — who would benefit from the theft of the jewel , and I learned from Mr Brown here ’ ( heads swivelling ) ‘ that Mrs Stratton was always slightly mysterious — ambivalent , even about her own financial affairs . |
| 25 | Quite a large part of that excitement is due to you , to your designs , and , also , if I may be forgiven for mentioning something so personal , for the way you have helped and befriended Therese . |
| 26 | ‘ I am fully conscious of the fact that in so concluding I may be said not to be applying Reg. v. Morris . |
| 27 | Let he who is without sin cast the first stone , I may be hearing you say . |
| 28 | ‘ I may be speaking out of turn , Miss Emily , but you are young and innocent and I am concerned about you . ’ |
| 29 | Then again , I may be struck by lightning before I reach the church . |
| 30 | ‘ I may be leaving the show . ’ |