Example sentences of "i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 91 | I wonder if I may offer some thoughts on this theme as I reflect on the situation facing Catholic Christians in our Church today . |
| 92 | Now sir , he had continued acidly , gripping Mark by the ear , ‘ tell me , if I may be so bold as to ask , precisely what I have been talking about . ’ |
| 93 | Sore eyes I may have , but at least I am not blind and can still darn my own stockings . |
| 94 | Or was it just another side of his character I had not seen before , but that I may have suspected was always there ? |
| 95 | I behaved with great dignity and showed none of the resentment I may have felt . |
| 96 | How often have those lines been my prayer : ‘ Teach me to live that I may dread The grave as little as my bed . |
| 97 | Now , you 're a plants-woman of no small renown , if I may say so , your ladyship . |
| 98 | ‘ We 've had several more since this morning , I may as well tell you . ’ |
| 99 | ‘ I may be leaving the show . ’ |
| 100 | Abraham makes his request : ‘ Give me land enough among you so that I may bury my dead properly . ’ |
| 101 | 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 . ’ |
| 102 | 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 . ’ |
| 103 | Just as he did earlier in the chapter , he warns Moses and Aaron to ‘ Get away from the midst of this congregation , that I may consume them in a moment . ’ |
| 104 | if I strike a child in a manner likely to cause harm it is right that if the child dies I may be charged with manslaughter . |
| 105 | I may have a problem , but that is a very different matter . |
| 106 | I may have reindeer antlers but I do n't have Santa Claws ! |
| 107 | My meadow , which I may well be contemplating with pleasure even as you read this , is a delight . |
| 108 | ‘ Perhaps I may now see Mrs Thorne ? ’ she asked , and Alida was forced to rise . |
| 109 | I may not sleep . |
| 110 | This time , Eleanor Thorne decided , I must think , I may not be selfish . |
| 111 | I may go to see Alida Thorne . |
| 112 | It is only that I feel I may make a new friend and be rewarded with company . |
| 113 | I may also add , in passing , that Miller has brown eyes whereas I have blue , black hair where mine is red , good eyesight whereas I am a little shortsighted . |
| 114 | There 's a — well , if I may be pompous , a sort of biochemical relationship between the two . ’ |
| 115 | I always feel happier or calmer with a pen in my hand , for writing is the one activity which gives me an unquestionable dignity and , if I may dare to claim it , an unconquerable pride . |
| 116 | I may even have said in the spirit of the joke that it had been one hundred and fifty-six whores , for all the world as though it was of an obsessive importance for the actual number to be known with absolute accuracy ! |
| 117 | There is still too much explaining to do , no matter how cold and weary I may be feeling . |
| 118 | During the February 1975 House of Commons debate on plans by the Wilson Government to increase the civil list allowances to the royal family , Kinnock , then an MP of five years standing , launched into a characteristically blustering attack on ‘ the senior executives of what I may call ‘ the Crown Limited ’ , who were ‘ outrageously overpaid ’ . |
| 119 | Secretly , I write to an organisation for anorexics , asking ‘ Do you think I may be anorexic ? |
| 120 | I 'll get some grapes if I may . |