Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though I may fail to carry it out to the full in this life , my faith in it shall abide . ’ |
| 2 | I may decide to marry him . |
| 3 | ‘ Because I may decide to re-christen you . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | However repellent I may happen to find them . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | One day I may attempt to buy it back from him . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I may have to arrest you , Chief Inspector , for flirting with a member of Her Majesty 's Security Service . ’ |
| 10 | I may have to save them . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Lastly , I fear I may have to disappoint you when I say that the coin is more interesting than valuable . |
| 13 | ‘ All right , we 'll leave it at that for the moment , but I may have to see you again . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll leave it at that for the moment but I may have to ask you that question again . |
| 16 | In which case , I may have to seek you out . |
| 17 | I may have to tell him , though . ’ |
| 18 | Please , above all , remember that I do n't know everything ( though I 'm working on it ! ) — I may have to tell you I ca n't help you rather than pretending otherwise and confusing you . |
| 19 | I said I may have to hurt him for a remark like that . |
| 20 | I may have to send you a hundred miles to Aberdeen . |
| 21 | ‘ Can you think of any reason why someone should want to kill him ? ’ |
| 22 | He cared a lot about other people and could never understand why someone should want to hurt him . |
| 23 | I must go to join them . ’ |
| 24 | I must choose to give it all back to you and to feel the happy liberation of unpossessiveness . |
| 25 | ‘ All right , but Marcus and I must go , I must telephone to say we 're coming . ’ |
| 26 | And now , my dear Sir , having said this much on behalf of this deserving Youth , I must beg to assure you that however zealous my wish to be the means of serving him and his poor Mother , I do not wish , on that account , to influence you — Quite the contrary — I know that in similar cases , your benevolent views have been disappointed , and , perhaps , you have consequently made arrangements for the Future which may render it ineligible to take any youth in the same way as proposed to his Brother — even if you have at present — or are likely in course of a year or two — to have a vacancy . |
| 27 | And when I think of my daughters growing up in that atmosphere , in that society , I feel I must try to avoid it if in any way I can . |
| 28 | ‘ I have just returned from a holiday in Hungary with my six year old son and I feel I must write to thank you . |
| 29 | After reading your December/January issue of Tennis World , I felt I must write to thank you for the article entitled ‘ Agassi — A Coach 's Dream ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ One thing I must remember to teach you while you are working for me , Shelley , is not to be afraid to be beautiful . |