Example sentences of "i [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And then in the last sort of seven to eight years , it starts to decline quite rapidly because you 're actually paying off the capital at that stage , and th that 's where I may meet somebody at say fifteen years , they thought their mortgage would run to age sixty five and they actually retire at sixty , they 've got five years left and they 're about there . |
| 32 | ‘ Anyroad , Bob 'll already have set off and I may meet him up on t'tops . ’ |
| 33 | You will think me discourteous , but perhaps I may excuse myself by explaining that it is the discourtesy of grief . ’ |
| 34 | More literally translated that verse runs like this : ‘ I may cover his face with the present that goes before my face ; and afterwards I shall see his face ; perhaps he will lift up my face . ’ |
| 35 | ‘ Miss Kenton , I wonder if I may draw your attention to the fact that the bed linen for the upper floor will need to be ready by the day after tomorrow . ’ |
| 36 | I may want me to go and do it now ? |
| 37 | ‘ This is the most honourable place I may lay her , ’ Ilbrec said , low . |
| 38 | Now , please have Red Sixteen sent for , so that I may inform him of my decision . ’ |
| 39 | Bartram had insisted that this differed from the candleberry , Myrica cerifera , while Miller had found other authors ranging it with the Liquidambar , ‘ so I shall be much obliged to you , if you can send me a perfect specimen , that I may determine its proper genus . ’ |
| 40 | Then perhaps I may believe I am not dreaming ! ’ |
| 41 | I may believe it is possible that the dead Giselle really did communicate with Alberic , but that in fact she did not . |
| 42 | I need to be able to see the path ahead in order to plan my route well in advance , or else I may get myself into an awkward position . |
| 43 | ‘ If I climb up I may get him , ’ Penny said to herself . |
| 44 | What is your name , wife , that I may know whom to thank ? ’ |
| 45 | He said : ‘ I have never seen Downey 's picture but I would think I may know him . |
| 46 | If you do decide to keep this fish , and have difficulty obtaining stock , then I may know someone who has one or two to spare … |
| 47 | After we 've discussed the appointments , I may need you to do a — few letters . ’ |
| 48 | ‘ I may need you . ’ |
| 49 | Who knows when I may need you ? |
| 50 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 51 | My conscience tells me that I owe it to God to be grateful to my father , who has spent his time unwearyingly upon my education , so that I may lighten his burden , look after myself and later on be able to support my sister … |
| 52 | that I may fear your name . |
| 53 | ‘ I hope I may trust your honour even that far ! ’ she shouted after him . |
| 54 | On the contrary , I am wondering how I may reward you … |
| 55 | ‘ I may spend my days in a welter of silks and satins , but I 'm not an entire moron , you know . ’ |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | Perhaps I may assist my hon. Friend . |
| 58 | ‘ Frank , kindly remove your hand or I may remove it myself . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | 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 . |