Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I may even get a job . ’
2 ‘ If I build up my business the way I hope I can , I may well need a partner .
3 Er Chairman , yes , if I may just make a couple of , of , of , of , of , comments on , on , on the report side , I , I very much welcome the report back which I think has clarified a number of areas in the inspector 's report and what the services are actually , actually are doing about this one , I think er overall it 's er it , it , it 's , it 's very , it 's very er it 's very er very useful to see er what has been done erm I , I , I , I , I 've been assured by the Chief Officer er on item , item er , item three one at the top of page two , that the operational plans being devolved to individual sch will not apply to operational activity , they will be er to separate activity within the s er sch station , erm I did raise that because I was concerned about one station saying yes we will attend the fire and another one saying we wo n't , which obviously is not appropriate er but with that caveat I , I , I , very much welcome the report , I would like to move the proposals sch standing in , in , in , in , in my name that we commend the report as well as er er what 's on the officer 's erm er , er , er recomen er the re the recommended er resolution and that we send a copy of that , this
4 Madam Chairman if I may just make a comment of concern that information was not , on this point was not forthcoming to the county councillors of that area perhaps to make er give them an opportunity to make comment prior to you so you could make this delegated action .
5 Or let my Lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely Tower Where I may oft outwatch the Bear .
6 I may now have an inkling of what has happened to me over the last few years ; I may have lined up a few suspects , even tentatively put my finger on ‘ who done it ’ ; I may have my own private detectives working alongside the regular police , and we may have made an arrest or two , but the file has not been closed .
7 ‘ I hope I may never make an enemy of thee ! ’
8 I was suddenly really upset as I thought I may never feel the baby moving inside me any more .
9 It was , in truth , the finest holiday I 've ever spent on a building-site and I may never look a sardine in the gill again .
10 I may never have the strength again . ’
11 Declaring that he wishes to offer to the public ‘ the very Journal which Dr Johnson read ’ , he says he will not ‘ expand the text in any considerable degree , though I may occasionally supply a word to complete the sense as I fill up the blanks of abbreviation in the writing ’ .
12 When Jeeves is played out , someone should really have a look at the Mr Mulliner Hollywood satires .
13 I knew I must soon arrange the memorial party , and the perfect opportunity arose with a letter from one of my closest friends , Margo , now living in Australia , who was planning a trip to Europe with her husband later that summer .
14 Among book ephemera I must also spare a paragraph for the modest bookmark , much neglected and too little chronicled.2 I do not , of course , refer to improvised examples such as scraps of brown paper and bacon rinds , but to the commercially produced strips of silk , paper and card , some of them elaborately lettered and decorated , deckled , frilled , tassled and ribboned .
15 I must also criticise a system that puts them in a position in which problems occur .
16 I stopped after a short while and said ‘ this is nonsense — I ca n't learn any more of this sort of thing by two o'clock — I must just do a prose right through and see how I get on ’ .
17 But first I must just have a word with you about … ’
18 ‘ He said I must cheerfully accept the sacrifice ?
19 I must now examine the case that has been pleaded against the third , fourth and fifth defendants in the light of the analysis of section 6(2) and section 61(1) that I have attempted .
20 I must now draw a distinction between two types of ferreting .
21 I must now mention a point which I hope will not give rise to difficulties .
22 I must frankly admit the fact , ’ he remarked , ‘ that to the people of Northern Ireland it does not seem that the battle against terrorism is being won fast enough . ’
23 It was to some extent a class conflict and , although I am glad to have had what is commonly regarded as a ‘ good education ’ , I must seriously doubt the wisdom of the County Council 's charitable and well-intentioned scheme .
24 The only complaint — and she was not really complaining against her uncle , perhaps I should rather say the cause for depression — was that from time to time she was very homesick and longed to see her mother and girls of her own age . ’
25 Yeah but I should probably get a bit of today there , no problem .
26 ‘ Yes , ’ I began , ‘ I should just like a practice … ’
27 Perhaps I should just say a word about that that operation since you 've raised it , because it is one type of job that we do , that is taking part in a rather large group , in this case sponsored by the Commonwealth Secretariat at the request of the government of Uganda after the fall of erm of Amin , to assess the rehabilitation needs of the country and to suggest what policies should be priority policies for their point of view and what contribution could be made by other countries through aid and erm other ways of technical assistance and fellowships for training and so forth , to help in this rehabilitation .
28 I should also mention the mess left near the bridge on Gubberford Lane Scorton after work done recently to clean up the sides of the bridge .
29 For the sake of completeness , I should also mention the development of the fuel cycle from the mine to reprocessing , which France and Great Britain have mastered .
30 His letters closes with : ‘ I should also welcome the opportunity to discuss the publication of the board 's advice . ’
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