Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | The French education system has had many of the features now introduced into the British system for more than a century and studying them may shed some light on future possibilities for schooling in this country . |
2 | Indeed , one of them may get more information out of it than the author realised he was putting into it . |
3 | Hyphenating them may overcome this problem . |
4 | But much latelier , in the private academies of Italy , wither I was favoured to resort , perceiving that some trifles which I had in memory , composed at under twenty or thereabouts , for the manner is that everyone must give some proof of his wit a reading there , met with acceptance above what was looked for , and other things which I had shifted in scarcity of books and conveniences to patch up amongst them , were received with written incomience which the Italian is not forward to bestow on men of this side the Alps . |
5 | I mean I know there 's always an argument , especially here in Oxford , that people just come , look round the colleges and they 're gone again , but having said that some of them must spend some money . |
6 | But the government intends everyone should pay some amount . |
7 | There 's a lesson here for the BBC or for any television organisation — and it 's important that everyone should get that lesson right . |
8 | Someday I may meet another mammoth . |
9 | Please can you tell me where I may purchase some dog 's tooth violets . |
10 | If he stims me much more , I know that I may seek such stimming again , however unwillingly . |
11 | Steve and I may see each other six times a week if we 're racing . |
12 | I may gain more acceptance . |
13 | I may have the gift of inspired preaching ; I may have all knowledge and understand all secrets ; I may have all the faith needed to move mountains — but if I have no love , I am nothing . |
14 | I may have more luck . ’ |
15 | I wo n't write a word more now , but go to my work , cool down , go out , and in the evening post this letter with proofs of my regret , though not recantation , and also proofs of some joy or success I may have this afternoon in fields now rejoicing in sunshine after rain , — to delight my own sweet little one , too tolerant , too childishly submissive , not by nature , which would be weak , but by love for me , which is strength . |
16 | But a mathematician should be taught to try to take me with him , so that I may have some appreciation of what he is doing , and why he enjoys doing it . |
17 | ‘ I may have another drink , I may not , ’ Newman replied , looking at Corduroy Jacket . |
18 | The Government have cut unemployment benefit 11 times since 1979 , making a cumulative ’ saving ’ — if I may use that word — at the expense of the unemployed , of £5 billion to £6 billion over the past decade . |
19 | In other words , these things I 've been talking about , map , if I may use that concept again from mathematics , they map to earlier feelings . |
20 | Is my hon. Friend — if I may use that term — sure that a solution put forward in this House would be accepted in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic ? |
21 | This is only a reflection of larger areas of the church above , that 's if I may use that phrase , which is happening . |
22 | The confusion yields when we realize that we have to do with a limited area , however large , and that the ‘ unionists ’ , if I may use this term , made the mistake of extrapolating the ambiguity and interchangeability within this limited area to the whole scope of Mozart 's staccato notation . |
23 | He is if I may take this question of the appointment of the independent members , he has certainly separated himself directly from their appointment by having this regional instrument . |
24 | Before the hon. Gentleman moves on from his point about the proposal to locate the health common services authority in the old BBC offices at Gabalfa , perhaps I may take some credit for that not having come to pass . |
25 | Do you think I ought to put that teddy in his cot ? |
26 | Just as there is a substantial move from saying ‘ This is a pleasant experience ’ to saying ‘ This is a good thing ’ , so there is a substantial move from saying ‘ This act will produce the best consequences ’ to saying ‘ I ought to do this act ’ . |
27 | ‘ I ought to do some work , ’ said Joe , who felt events were causing him to fall behind with his current commission . |
28 | I ought to start this note with a health warning — it contains some mathematics ; not a lot , but some . |
29 | ‘ I ought to get some sleep , ’ he said , but the coke had taken hold , it was lifting him , and he had such a good seat at the circus , he did n't really want to leave . |
30 | All Americans go Eh Nine o'clock tomorrow I 'm going over to Kate ten thirty that gives me a bit of lee-way I 've got a at ten I thought it was ten thirty I ought to get some money out really You 're not going into Woking tomorrow morning are you doing your quiz ? |