Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | I mean them let's face it one out the three of us should of thought a bit more . |
2 | You go into the bedroom , checking the position of the mirrors ; none of them ought to show you to anybody in the bathroom . |
3 | 4 to 5 is relatively easy and if someone starts off at 5 they do n't need any persuading at all ( attempts to persuade them may irritate them so much that they start to move to the left ! ) . |
4 | The most energetic of them may form themselves into pressure-groups of a not wholly child-centred kind . |
5 | A phone call or a letter to them may set your investigations off on a completely new heading and give you further experts whose evidence would be helpful to you . |
6 | ‘ These are enormously strong roots and the melding of them may give us an organisation far more formidable than either could be on their own . ’ |
7 | The roar of applause when it later rids itself of them may boost its popularity at a critical moment . |
8 | Different people will notice different things and some of them may surprise you . |
9 | One or two of them may grab your arms while a third gets ready to hit you from the front . |
10 | On the other hand if I am in a drama experience my own actions and things about me may trap me into believing I am in an actual event . |
11 | Making love to me may help you to forget for a while , but it wo n't change the feelings you obviously still have for her , whether you care to admit it or not . ’ |
12 | I am prepared to accept that anyone who knows me may dislike me , but when someone who can not dislike me because they do n't know me , attacks me , I collapse inside , I lose eloquence , I get frightened , sometimes I cry . |
13 | One of them must do it . ’ |
14 | To them must go our warmest thanks . |
15 | Nevertheless , this suggestion by Rees does contain one useful pointer : if managers are non-altruistic , controls on them must influence their pay in order to affect performance . |
16 | This means that each one of them must know what human experience they each must share when it comes to the time of evocation . |
17 | He does n't seem to be embarrassed by anything , except when you try to provoke him by telling him that surely he must thump his desk once in a while , or that although he says that a record company exists ‘ to guide your artists ’ most of them must hate him at some point . |
18 | Anyone finding them should hand them in at a police station or to any officer he said . |
19 | They pecked at some dead creature on the moorland verge , squabbling over which of them should have it , wheeling and darting at each other like terrible shadows in the mist . |
20 | Those totems were my warning shot ; anybody who set foot on the island after seeing them should know what to expect . |
21 | ‘ I think all the businessmen sitting around me must think I am mad . |
22 | Mick and me must drive them all there . |
23 | In fact you said er again if if I may offer you one of your quotes erm , If you have back benchers who wo n't support you , that limits governments abilities to take decisions . |
24 | In order to be as free as possible , that my will have the greatest possible range consistent with the similar will of others , it is necessary that there be a way in which I may commit myself … . |
25 | Erm and I think I may do one in the middle of there and then leave that s like that . |
26 | In our various parties , organizations and institutions therefore we urgently need to recognize that most of our programmes , not least the programmes of our conferences and synods if I may leave you together in sin brothers and sisters |
27 | 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 . ’ |
28 | For what 's is worth , as a motorist , I may tell you I 'm thirty years standing , and I explained to the people when I phoned your office up , I 've had thirty years standing as a driver , I check my oil , I check my water , I lost no compression , no water . |
29 | I may modify my behaviour to conform to the expectations of the group , and I will do so in a much shorter time than I would in a one-to-one relationship . |
30 | I may treat you as a grown-up person , may I not ? |