Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 I may inspect the accommodation ? ’
32 I may get a mention . ’
33 I gu my guess is if I ask the audience I I may get an answer I do n't like here .
34 Foolish because I may know the answer already and just be testing you .
35 I may need a bit of help .
36 Gentlemen : It is with great regret that I see so many students labouring day after day in the Academy , as if they imagined that a liberal art , such as ours , was to be acquired like a mechanical trade , by dint of labour , or I may add the absurdity of supposing that it could be acquired by any means whatever .
37 Will my right hon. Friend arrange an early debate on education , and especially on the local authorities ' responsibilities and their relationship with Government in terms of school organisation , so that I may highlight the need for an early decision on proposals to reorganise schools in Ealing , where parents , teachers and children will be greatly affected by those decisions ?
38 To that end keep alert with all perseverance , making supplication for all saints , and also for me … that I may declare the gospel boldly , as I ought to ’ ( Eph. 6:18f ) .
39 Sometimes I may spend a week just looking for something I want . ’
40 If the night passes without incident , I may consider the Archbishop 's offer .
41 Yes , your worships I wonder if I may assist the court o on behalf of er M Mrs erm Mrs er has told me that she thought at the time of the incident again was in fact , nearer to five o'clock than than , than four thirty and she was driving from Billington towards Clitheroe she had come through the traffic lights at the bottom of Accrington Road in Worley and she was proceeding along King Street in Worley er , towards towards Clitheroe and sh she has told me that at the time there was a considerable amount of traffic on the road and yo i in fact had that confirmed to you by er , my friend er the the traffic was sufficiently heavy that in fact , the the traffic travelling in the direction of Blackburn er was wai was backed up to the traffic lights as far as the zebra crossing and beyond it and so as Mrs erm was travelling towards Clitheroe her view of the children on the footpath at the opposite side of the road was obstructed by the cars that were er , travelling towards Blackburn .
42 I wonder whether I may ask a question relating to your personal experience rather than I B M per se .
43 ‘ You are to move me so that I may see the moon . ’
44 Dealing generally with the question of art teaching , when addressing himself to the abortive attempt to found a Fine Art course at Oxford in 1922 , he postulated that art schools should , above all else avoid , ‘ The temptation to consider the number of students as a test of success , what I may call a kind of moral and social capitation grant .
45 The plaintiffs then had a new point which I may call the waiver argument , the basic principle of which is stated in Wigmore on Evidence , 8th ed. ( 1961 ) , pp. 453–455 , para. 2275 :
46 Enough if I have shown that if we care to do so , we can illustrate the second as well as the first half of what I may call the Plowden proposition .
47 Well good afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen I am delighted to welcome you to the R Y A's Annual General Meeting if I may call the meeting to order and may I propose that for those who 's convening the meeting printed on the front page of the annual report and accounts ninety , ninety one ninety two to be taken as read .
48 Perhaps I may support the request of the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) .
49 I may read the papers , or perhaps just stay in bed wondering if there 's anything on the doorstep .
50 She rode along , swaggering like a man , till she came to where the lane turned into the field , and there she called out as bold as brass : now , please the powers I may find a tiger in the field !
51 " Difficult to invite a tradesman to one 's house , but the bills are piling up so quickly I may have no choice . "
52 Stein said : ‘ I may have no money and no authority but I have got my principles .
53 Stein said : ‘ I may have no money and no authority but I have my principles .
54 Herbert 's daily life at Bemerton can be envisaged from his book The Country Parson ( later published as The Priest to the Temple ) , which he wrote , as he explained , ‘ that I may have a mark to aim at ’ .
55 If you mind that anyway , cos I may have a couple of people er that may want a few of them to , spoken to Dav , David , he 's got one or two as well .
56 I may have a problem , but that is a very different matter .
57 All three of us are grinning like it 's an idiot 's birthday party , but she keeps an eye on me like she thinks I may have a relapse any minute .
58 As you may recall , I may have a meeting of the Education Committee of the British Association of Industrial Editors in London on 29th — though these are always subject to last minute change .
59 ‘ I think I may have a doze , ’ Finch said , closing his eyes in thanks .
60 I may have the idea that makes me start putting the brush strokes down , but at some point the canvas will take on a life of its own and lead me off in a direction I never expected to go .
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