Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , some may affect me one way , the next person they ask , affected another way , so they get two different opinions , do n't they . |
| 2 | He may regard me as an amateur but the fact is that , due to physical difficulties , I can not pull and twist in a horizontal mode and so I invoked gravity to assist . |
| 3 | But you may think me merely biased if I say that my own father could in many ways be considered to rank with such men , and that his career is the one I have always scrutinized for a definition of ‘ dignity ’ . |
| 4 | And Herbert , you may think me lucky . |
| 5 | Another , who works in a uniform all day , said how important her earrings were , and the short dreadlocks under her hat ; how she felt they were making a statement for her , something like : you may think I 'm an ordinary , boring nurse , but my hair and my earrings give you the clues ; this is what I 'm like out of my uniform , I 'm different , I 'm me . |
| 6 | I daresay you find this strange and may think I am ungrateful when after all I have been given the chance to set up for myself which is not given to many of our station but it is a surprise to me too . |
| 7 | You may think I am exaggerating but I am telling you the truth as clearly as I remember it and I remember it very clearly . |
| 8 | You may think I 'm bad enough , but Slorne ! |
| 9 | You may think I 'm joking I do n't go abroad for my holidays , I go to Norfolk . |
| 10 | Now do n't take that too literally , certainly in sub zero temperatures and I think the first of December and to do so would I think er have er maybe with some risk of being in 's phrase stark raving bonkers but by that you may think I mean that I think we made a fair attempt to deal with the three principle issues which have caused so much annoyance to user groups , there 's a backlog in modification orders . |
| 11 | ‘ You may think I fell apart and did n't handle myself very well . ’ |
| 12 | Many people may think I am rather strange in comparing two horror books . |
| 13 | and leave you free to do a job , because you may think I mean , believe it or I 've turned this room inside out today ! |
| 14 | O God give me the strength to be victorious over myself , for nothing may chain me to this life . |
| 15 | He may throw me among strangers . |
| 16 | I may want me to go and do it now ? |
| 17 | That you may grant me grace . |
| 18 | He may make me feel desolate , make my spirits sink , hide my future from me … still … |
| 19 | It may make me sound as if I 'm in training for a Blue Peter badge , but it works . |
| 20 | That learned attitude in its turn may make me uncomfortably edgy and aggressive when situations . |
| 21 | This view of scientific theories may make me an instrumentalist or a positivist — as I have said above , I have been called both . |
| 22 | Let me go , and if I run my head into a hornet 's nest you may disown me . ’ |
| 23 | Though , as I say , this is very much a matter of personal taste and is not a ‘ rule ’ and there are some patterns in the electronic packs which may tempt me to change my preferences . |
| 24 | Yet our eyes lingered , and hers conveyed both an indication and a warning : Subtlety may win me , but force never will . |
| 25 | You may trust me , Mortals . ’ |
| 26 | You may trust me . ’ |
| 27 | He sent for Marko and told him , " You must plant me a vineyard and bring me wine from it in seven days . |
| 28 | ‘ If you think I 'll fall for that , you must think me very stupid indeed . |
| 29 | ‘ You must think me terribly rude , ’ said Blunset . |
| 30 | How greedy everyone must think me . |