Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Mr Chamberlain 's services to the State are infinitely greater than any I have been able to render , but we are both men who are giving all we can give to the service of the State ; we are both men who are , or try to be , actuated by principle in our conduct ; we are men who , I think , have exactly the same views on the political problems of the day ; we are men who I believe — certainly on my side-have esteem and perhaps I may say affection for each other ; but the result of this dynamic force is that we stand here today , he prepared to go into the wilderness if he should be compelled to forsake the Prime Minister , and I prepared to go into the wilderness if I should be compelled to stay with him . |
| 32 | And just in case I may say things I 'll be sorry for , I 'd better not go on , except for one last word . |
| 33 | I must 've misheard . |
| 34 | ‘ I must flatter people and arouse their acquisitive instincts at one and the same time . ’ |
| 35 | ‘ I must tell Mrs Porter to — ’ |
| 36 | Oh I must tell Wynn all about the the letter I had . |
| 37 | I must tell Ma about the spider , she 'd like that . ’ |
| 38 | I must tell Philippa that I was joking . |
| 39 | ‘ Speaking of Quatt , I must tell Aycliffe to go and fetch him at once . ’ |
| 40 | ‘ He says I must n't read or write , and I must wear glasses . |
| 41 | I must assume Summerchild knows the premises , too . |
| 42 | I must 'ave bin sittin' there fer over an hour an' then this geezer comes out an' beckons me in 'is office . |
| 43 | In a secret notebook , the 15-year-old girl wrote of the mischievous 12-year-old : ‘ I must love James more . ’ |
| 44 | At this point I must express thanks for the valuable contributions from training organisations , district societies , district training boards , the National Student Liaison Committee and various Institute committees ( including the Competence-led Assessment Steering Group ) . |
| 45 | And , Hal , from Chester I must go north to the march as fast as I may , for Walton sends me word there are new raids threatening , and it 's his belief and mine there are French knights serving there with Douglas . ’ |
| 46 | I I must confess Mr I had some difficulty with the wording of P P G there when it says , unacceptable coalescence , er and trying to balance that against the expressed aim that this should be freestanding . |
| 47 | Well I must confess Mr it 's it 's difficult if we get into a situation where we 've got an area straddling two districts and I do n't have to say why , in some respects . |
| 48 | Is it to the Holy Spirit , then , that I must assign Buddhism 's denial of the possibility of forgiveness , or communism 's cavalier attitude to truth and human life , or the self-satisfied man-centredness of much contemporary humanism ? |
| 49 | ‘ there are moments when I feel I 'm on the frontier of something and I must twist language in some way to pass the frontier ’ ( Brooke-Rose 1990e:31 ) |
| 50 | She said : ‘ I have been used for too long , I must do things for myself now . |
| 51 | But when I go from hence to this testing I must leave affairs here in one pair of hands , the closest and dearest to me . |
| 52 | ‘ I must leave Ralarth . ’ |
| 53 | To-morrow I must leave Parfois for a matter of some days . |
| 54 | I must marry Damian , and he will get the company when my father dies . ’ |
| 55 | If there 's one thing I think I 'm sure of , it 's the fact that I must marry Selina . |
| 56 | I must marry Selina and settle down and raise a family . |
| 57 | I must marry Selina . |
| 58 | ‘ I must feed Camille . ’ |
| 59 | At the beginning of your memoir is a quotation from a letter by John Adams to his wife : ‘ I must study politics and war , that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy . |
| 60 | You know , I thought he was about fifty odd , but what I must mention Jane , must n't forget in his first race in the three o'clock , he came last on Ruddy Cheek . |