Example sentences of "i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 61 | I realise that , if I am accepted , once I have completed my degree I may often have to work for over 80 hours at a stretch during a weekend on call . |
| 62 | I may sing like Marcel Marceau , but it was never a style . |
| 63 | Interviewed last year , Gagosian responded to the accusation that he had made transparencies of paintings reproduced in art magazines and offered them for sale as ‘ a scurrilous charge ’ — but he went on to admit ‘ Well , I may have done it once . ’ |
| 64 | I turned and gave him a wave , ‘ Do n't wait up for me , I may be late . ’ |
| 65 | I may as well stick it out to the end . |
| 66 | 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 . |
| 67 | ‘ I may not be as much with my family as I should be , but at least I am at home , ’ he reasons . |
| 68 | Any scandal I may commit in my period out of my home would seriously affect my younger brothers and sisters . |
| 69 | That 'll do for now , but I may want to talk to you again . ’ |
| 70 | He paused and then said , not realising the effect his words would have , ‘ I may go along and see this Vigo . ’ |
| 71 | ‘ I may not be a wizard with sphygmomanometer , ’ said Wexford derisively , ‘ but I 'm not daft . |
| 72 | ‘ Since I 'm home , ’ she said , ‘ I may as well do my duty . |
| 73 | ‘ I may have to go to a meeting . |
| 74 | I may be a little late so do n't wait supper for me . |
| 75 | ‘ I will stay here if I may , ’ she said , looking at Marx as if he were an unpleasant insect . |
| 76 | I may have embarked on the impossible , ’ Lewis wrote to Sister Penelope on 9 November 1941 . |
| 77 | Shakespeare must have thought them common enough : in As You Like It a frustrated Rosalind says , ‘ I prithee , take thy cork out of thy mouth that I may drink thy tidings . ’ |
| 78 | Did I tell you I may have to have surgery ? |
| 79 | ‘ You mean I may go soon ? ’ |
| 80 | Grant that by my prayers and alms , I may give to each continent what it requires : to Africa , a native clergy of black hands lifting your body ; to Asia , a rich harvest from the red blood , seed of her martyrs ; to Oceania , a necklace of islands made into a Rosary for the faith ; to Europe , already so tired , a renewal of youth at the altar of God ; to America , an exchange of the pearl of great price for material riches . |
| 81 | I 've almost paid off the debt and soon I may have enough to put something aside for savings . |
| 82 | I would prefer not to have my guy stand up and say I may have been involved in an assassination . ’ |
| 83 | ‘ I may be against this on principle but I do n't see why I should n't be able to make a little bit of capital , ’ he added . |
| 84 | Feel I may be witnessing end of Christian and dawn of Lucindian era . |
| 85 | I may also have dwelt too long on the years between 1690 and 1730 , but this was simply because it seems to be most people 's favourite period . |
| 86 | Towards the end of his life he told Osbert Sitwell ; ‘ Any talent I may have was due to a long illness as a boy , which afforded me time to think , and subsequent ill-health , because I was not allowed to play games , and so had to teach myself , for my enjoyment , to use my eyes instead of my feet . ’ |
| 87 | I 'll not need anyone till about lunch-time so you have your sleep in , but I may ring you up after that . |
| 88 | I wo n't write a word more now , but go to my work , cool down , go out , and in the evening post this letter with proofs of my regret , though not recantation , and also proofs of some joy or success I may have this afternoon in fields now rejoicing in sunshine after rain , — to delight my own sweet little one , too tolerant , too childishly submissive , not by nature , which would be weak , but by love for me , which is strength . |
| 89 | So , despite his presentation of sceptical arguments against knowledge of the nature of things , Gassendi does , nevertheless , hint that ‘ it may well be that the basis for knowledge does exist ’ ; even though this will be ‘ a knowledge of experience and , I may say , of appearances ’ . |
| 90 | ‘ The idea I have in view whilst I make the demonstration ’ may be of a particular right-angled triangle with sides of a certain length , but I may , nevertheless , be sure that it holds of all right-angled triangles if , by not mentioning the ways in which it differs from them , I use this one to stand for them all . |