Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The differences found between them may throw light on certain rarely remarked properties of the object which suggest that it has a major role in the development of cognitive abilities and the ways in which the world is perceived , understood and lived in . |
| 2 | To further subdivide them may make record-keeping impossibly complicated . |
| 3 | Some of them may accept equity as part of the necessary restructuring of GPA 's debts . |
| 4 | People of opposing political views can live together , as can people of different religions , until something happens to make them meet head-on , and then one of them must give way . |
| 5 | Julia heard the name ‘ Jonathan ’ , but she made a determined effort not to translate the Italian words , knowing how much the two of them must need privacy . |
| 6 | Let Ephraim Cook keep the business in order for Amabel and Gemma , and whoever came after them must take care of themselves . |
| 7 | I may visit Liddy at her sister 's later . |
| 8 | ‘ If you do n't make more effort to be civil , I may regret fishing you from the sea on your arrival . |
| 9 | Certes , Sir , it behoves you to do this , because it is for God 's service , and because I may pardon Rodrigo with a good will . |
| 10 | ‘ I may wish destruction on the King 's enemies — ’ his voice was still clipped ‘ — but that does n't blind me to their good qualities . ’ |
| 11 | I shall answer it as best I can , although I am afraid that I may burden Opposition Members with an answer that they have heard before . |
| 12 | Erm , I may have budget files , actual files , forecast files . |
| 13 | He graced his office with dignity and performed his duties with such excellence that I know I may have difficulty in walking in his footsteps . |
| 14 | I may have minority tastes , but I came here to find out what the right hon. and learned Gentleman would say about the autumn statement . |
| 15 | I , I grant you I mean , it 's my judgement as to how critical that meeting is , and I may lose business that way . |
| 16 | Mr Chamberlain 's services to the State are infinitely greater than any I have been able to render , but we are both men who are giving all we can give to the service of the State ; we are both men who are , or try to be , actuated by principle in our conduct ; we are men who , I think , have exactly the same views on the political problems of the day ; we are men who I believe — certainly on my side-have esteem and perhaps I may say affection for each other ; but the result of this dynamic force is that we stand here today , he prepared to go into the wilderness if he should be compelled to forsake the Prime Minister , and I prepared to go into the wilderness if I should be compelled to stay with him . |
| 17 | " I have wondered if I ought to leave Mummy . |
| 18 | The craziness of the theatre business was apparent from day one and about three weeks into my ten week contract , I thought I ought to give Peace Corps another try . |
| 19 | ‘ He 's the local judge , and I ought to report Pew 's death to him or Squire Trelawney . |
| 20 | I happened to look in on the Private Office before going home in order to see whether there was anything I ought to take account of . |
| 21 | She liked to plan everything — meals , shopping expeditions — in painstaking detail ; she was — again like Sophie — an extremely efficient housekeeper , always turning mattresses and telling me I ought to starch table napkins and put fresh flowers in the hall every day . |
| 22 | I suppose I ought to think quarter to six |
| 23 | I ought to have courage . |
| 24 | I must 've misheard . |
| 25 | I must tell Ma about the spider , she 'd like that . ’ |
| 26 | I must 'ave bin sittin' there fer over an hour an' then this geezer comes out an' beckons me in 'is office . |
| 27 | And , Hal , from Chester I must go north to the march as fast as I may , for Walton sends me word there are new raids threatening , and it 's his belief and mine there are French knights serving there with Douglas . ’ |
| 28 | Is it to the Holy Spirit , then , that I must assign Buddhism 's denial of the possibility of forgiveness , or communism 's cavalier attitude to truth and human life , or the self-satisfied man-centredness of much contemporary humanism ? |
| 29 | ‘ there are moments when I feel I 'm on the frontier of something and I must twist language in some way to pass the frontier ’ ( Brooke-Rose 1990e:31 ) |
| 30 | ‘ I must leave Ralarth . ’ |