Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The changes have been more fundamental and some of them may have affected us in ways that we do not immediately recognise . |
| 2 | The law sees the case as no different in principle from dealing with a murder in a street by prosecuting everyone who lives in that street , on the basis that one of them must have done it . |
| 3 | As for the countryside , the main complaint of the wage labourer was of underemployment and at certain seasons of the agricultural calendar many of them must have wished they did not have time on their hands . |
| 4 | Though I may fail to carry it out to the full in this life , my faith in it shall abide . ’ |
| 5 | I may decide to marry him . |
| 6 | ‘ Because I may decide to re-christen you . |
| 7 | If I may start excuse me , my Lord Mayor , by answering something that appears to be confusing the Conservative benches . |
| 8 | Erm it 's in Leeds erm and they know that I 'm going but I may need to call them and say that I 'm sending somebody else because I ca n't possibly go anywhere during the day on Wednesday . |
| 9 | However repellent I may happen to find them . ’ |
| 10 | I may seek to control him , if he is potentially useful to me ; but I shall be betraying my principles if I begin to enjoy the sensation of another resisting and yielding , if I develop a taste for power for its own sake . |
| 11 | One day I may attempt to buy it back from him . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ No , the only thing I regret is that I may have rushed you into something you 're already beginning to repent . |
| 14 | ‘ I may have to arrest you , Chief Inspector , for flirting with a member of Her Majesty 's Security Service . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I think I may have heard it as a bedtime story when I was a small child . ’ |
| 16 | Interviewed last year , Gagosian responded to the accusation that he had made transparencies of paintings reproduced in art magazines and offered them for sale as ‘ a scurrilous charge ’ — but he went on to admit ‘ Well , I may have done it once . ’ |
| 17 | I may have done it . |
| 18 | I may have to save them . |
| 19 | But I think I may have to extend it — just like the politicians — because I have n't achieved anything in all the time I have been in my new home . |
| 20 | Lastly , I fear I may have to disappoint you when I say that the coin is more interesting than valuable . |
| 21 | I may have sent it quicker over the goal line with this touch , but I think it would have reached it in any case . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ All right , we 'll leave it at that for the moment , but I may have to see you again . ’ |
| 23 | Also , I may have given him the impression , with the urgency of youth possessed of strong convictions , that I wanted at all costs to have something published on this subject . |
| 24 | ‘ As a matter of fact , I think I may have seen it . ’ |
| 25 | To Giles I 'm a ‘ Jeremiah ’ who should be capable of ‘ an act of faith ’ — act of lunacy , more like ; to Hans Haenlein and others I 've got incredibly deep pockets ; to Peter Davey , for whom I voted and who is now so far removed from ‘ the cultural gangsters ’ as to be a cultural kamikaze pilot , I need ‘ a heroic proposal ’ ; to Mervyn Miller I should n't ‘ surrender my birthright ’ — but I may have to sell it . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'll leave it at that for the moment but I may have to ask you that question again . |
| 27 | They did n't give any details about the Leeds match ( or I may have missed them as I was simultaneously talking on the phone ) . |
| 28 | I may have missed her coming out here . ’ |
| 29 | I may have lost it , and I am certainly not wandering around the palace looking for a glove ! ’ |
| 30 | In which case , I may have to seek you out . |