Example sentences of "i [vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 61 | Must now conclude trusting my dear that every blessing will attend you and trusting I may find you well when I return — kiss dear Fritz [ ? ] for me and believe me to remain Eliza |
| 62 | To accept responsibility for a choice , I may judge it sufficient that I was closely attentive to the object before responding in one direction or the other . |
| 63 | so I may touch them |
| 64 | If we can not guess Jacob 's motives , the storyteller makes them plain : ‘ I may appease him with the present that goes before me , and afterwards I shall see his face ; perhaps he will accept me . ’ |
| 65 | ‘ I may look it , but my condition remains unchanged , ’ the old lady told him frostily , but her bony fingers clung to his . |
| 66 | Yet if I say I love him , she thought , watching his capable hands on the wheel , I may frighten him away . |
| 67 | I think I may have it . |
| 68 | er well it should be page two but in my er haste I may have I notice mine is in the wrong order . |
| 69 | ‘ I will buy it , so that I may have you to myself . ’ |
| 70 | I may unnerve you by saying that many of us err in this . |
| 71 | Much as I may deplore it , for the moment you 're very much my responsibility . ’ |
| 72 | I 'll not need anyone till about lunch-time so you have your sleep in , but I may ring you up after that . |
| 73 | If I am with you all the time , I may persuade you to stay , against your better judgement . |
| 74 | I may lose them and that would be terrible ! |
| 75 | The Ariadne , if I may put it that way , is a hotbed of super-sensitivity . |
| 76 | ROS : A compulsion towards philosophical introspection is his chief characteristic , if I may put it like that . |
| 77 | ‘ I have a big turnover in secretaries , if I may put it that way . |
| 78 | However , what the hon. Gentleman says is a new one on me , if I may put it as basically as that . |
| 79 | And there 's a fascinating article in this , the current edition , the January edition it is now , because they go so far in advance , of She magazine , which says that er , it 's a desperate plight sometimes , when you have people coming for Christmas who fall into several categories like lazy slobs , who do absolutely nothing , and misers , who turn up with a stale box of chocolates , and never take you out for a meal in return for your hospitality , and the amorous couples who er , embarrass you by er , er , noisily retiring to their bedroom , if I may put it that way , and then the guests who turn up in mid-row , and bicker systematically over the whole of the festive period . |
| 80 | I mean all I , I would like to , to say is that so far as this particular road , whatever you may call it , er is concerned , that we look at highways priorities in this committee and that we would receive an assurance that this would not be bulldozed through , if I may put it that way , erm and opposed to one two three four other major schemes which are perhaps of more importance in terms of highways rather than er a , a corporate objective . |
| 81 | It 's er unfortunately the case that relations between the partners broke down and this led in due course to proceedings being commenced by the plaintiffs against the defendant in relation to the dissolution of the partners , those proceedings were commenced in nineteen eighty nine , , er in the High Court Chancery Division , there were a number of issues raised in the litigation , one of the matters was a preliminary issue , er concerning the terms of the partnership and that came before er Mr Justice on the eighteenth of February nineteen ninety one , whereby he found in favour effectively of the defendant on that preliminary issue er the plaintiffs it seems were then claiming that partnership , the partnership at will , but Mr Justice held that they were part of the terms of the particular er partnership deed , so the defendants succeeded on that issue , the trial of the action then followed on the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one and er Mr Justice made an order for dissolution of the partnership , he then give various directions for accountant enquiries concerning the partnership and he made orders for payments of costs , now the orders for costs were this , that effectively the defendant was entitled to some costs of the preliminary issue and that the plaintiffs were entitled to costs of the er ma if I may put it this way , the main action , and there was then the provision for , set off for the defendant 's costs against the costs ordered to be paid by the defendant , perfectly normal form of order . |
| 82 | Well , you 're suffering from , if I may put it that crudely , of a well-known British disease of a lack of self-regard in a sense . |
| 83 | I may use them on Mrs occasionally . |
| 84 | She says I have just bought this pram from a jumble sale and I am thinking I may use it as a flower pot and maybe make some model babies out of flowers . |
| 85 | Now if I am a good reporter , in a sense I 'm going to let the original question flow past me as a starter , I may use it , I may not use it . |
| 86 | ‘ Good God , if I weathered poor Isabel 's friendship , I am sure I may weather yours ! ’ |
| 87 | ‘ I know not how I may repay you . ’ |
| 88 | If you have any other items you wish to raise at the meeting , please advise me beforehand so that I may include them on the agenda . |
| 89 | But resurrection to a Messianic Kingdom is surely implied in the words of the mother of the Seven Martyrs in II Maccabees : " Fear not this executioner , but proving thyself worthy of thy brethren , accept thy death that in the mercy of God I may receive thee again with thy brethren . " |
| 90 | ‘ But my feelings are different , if I may state them . |