Example sentences of "i [vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Then perhaps I may believe I am not dreaming ! ’ |
| 32 | I may believe it is possible that the dead Giselle really did communicate with Alberic , but that in fact she did not . |
| 33 | ‘ If I climb up I may get him , ’ Penny said to herself . |
| 34 | He said : ‘ I have never seen Downey 's picture but I would think I may know him . |
| 35 | After we 've discussed the appointments , I may need you to do a — few letters . ’ |
| 36 | ‘ I may need you . ’ |
| 37 | Who knows when I may need you ? |
| 38 | ‘ I may need you to show me where things are , ’ she turned to Jill , ‘ but the rest I can manage , even if I have to bluff my way through . ’ |
| 39 | On the contrary , I am wondering how I may reward you … |
| 40 | Just before we go we are going to hear a recording of a song that 's been referred to which I think is called the greatest love of all which I 'm told we 'll all know by heart er this time next year hmm erm anyway on that note if I may thank you very , very much indeed and I leave you with best wishes for a highly , highly successful birthday year . |
| 41 | ‘ Frank , kindly remove your hand or I may remove it myself . |
| 42 | If I may broaden it away from erm the Cardinal Newman School and think probably of a lot of East Sussex Comprehensive Schools , I think we have all been , in the schools , in the last few years , working hard to establish this openness , and I think that the closed concept of the school , the school that locks children out at break or locks children out at dinner time , which only allows parents to come in for a phoney Open Day when there are a few children there , they are things largely , I think , of the past and they are the closed society . |
| 43 | I 'm particularly concerned perhaps if I may ask her to show some concern for this herself that the remoteness of the newspaper library , way up in the rustic further regions of the Northern Line , the great virtue of the existing site is that 's on the Inner Circle , the accessibility of this site is really its greatest virtue . |
| 44 | If I may ask you about the window ? |
| 45 | Nothing in between you do n't have to revise , even if you know next week I may I do n't know , I may ask you to get on with unit seven . |
| 46 | ‘ Then I may see him ? ’ said Philip , promptly securing at least this concession . |
| 47 | I wish I may see it ! ’ |
| 48 | I may see you on the same plane . ’ |
| 49 | I may see you in the shop one of these days . ’ |
| 50 | I am enclosing tickets for the new play and as they are in the front stalls , I may see you as I come on , ; but do not expect me to salute you , you understand , as I shall be taken up with my part . |
| 51 | ‘ I may fire him , as I 've told you . ’ |
| 52 | ‘ I may call you by your pen name , yes ? ’ he added . |
| 53 | ‘ Perhaps I may call you there ? ’ |
| 54 | ‘ Mary — if I may call you that — yes , I have indeed some strange intelligence . |
| 55 | A slight lift of one winged brow the only sign that he was amused by her deliberate omission , he went on , ‘ Well , then , Luce — I may call you Luce ? — what would you like to know ? ’ |
| 56 | If the house was above the road , it came from it , and cross 'd the way to run to another ; if the house was below us , it cross 'd us from some other distant house above it , and at every considerable house was a manufactory or work-house , and as they could not do their business without water , the little streams were so parted and guided by gutters and pipes , and by turning and dividing the streams , that none of those houses were without a river , if I may call it so , running into and through their work-houses . |
| 57 | I will want to come back on the same point that 's just been made , but if before I get to that there are some other points that I think I should make in explanation of the lead we have given , if I may call it that , in putting forward the distribution of the Greater York total . |
| 58 | Erm , I 've written it out here if I may read it . |
| 59 | I did n't ring your family with the sole intention of provoking another of your temper tantrums , however entertaining I may find them . |
| 60 | For this alone , I may find it in my heart to forgive her . |