Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [adv] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sums that will pass through them ought surely to enhance their prestige , and at a symbolic time . |
| 2 | Everyone must therefore renew their objections , amending them as appropriate . |
| 3 | ‘ I may even recover my northern accent lost over the years spent away , ’ he said . |
| 4 | I may just have me chicken out and keep the sausage for another day |
| 5 | I may indeed remind my friend of a thought I had by referring to it as the one I had on first wakening in Venice . |
| 6 | I must again express my thanks to all those who have contributed to this exciting Development Programme , through response to the Consultative Paper , participation in pilot and consortium developments , contributions to unit writing groups and attendance at seminars . |
| 7 | I must also thank my parents for everything they have done for me and especially this wonderful event , my wedding to Steven . |
| 8 | My wife and I are very conscious of the very high honour that you have bestowed upon us and I must also thank my Party for proposing , and you all for electing , me to the office of Lord Mayor for the Metropolitan City of . |
| 9 | I must just stretch my legs while the jury are coming back alright . |
| 10 | ‘ If you really mean what you say , then the solution is obvious : you and I must simply bury our differences for the time being . |
| 11 | ‘ He makes me feel as though I ought to go and write ‘ I must always measure my ingredients ’ five hundred times . ’ |
| 12 | I must certainly look my very best then ! |
| 13 | If the Archbishop would only trust me , I should soon make his orchestra famous . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , sir , Document B , and I should here direct your attention to Document B1 which is a report of an interview with the girl 's mother submitted on her behalf by the latest Visitor to have taken over the case . |
| 15 | Since I was asking young women to talk freely about a highly personal and intimate area of their lives , I thought it only fair that I should also tell my own story , and set out some of my reasons for my interest in the subject . |
| 16 | I should also like my right hon. Friend to look carefully at what extra help the Territorial Army can give the civilian population in civil disasters . |
| 17 | I should yawn my head off in a palace , and I should laugh during the most solemn ceremonies , and I should certainly beat my Ministers . |
| 18 | It was buried in the garden with all due ceremony , and all I knew or felt at the time was grief that I should never see my beloved pet again . |
| 19 | My mother said I should never cut my hair or I 'd lose my strength , like Samson in the Bible . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I should so appreciate your help with the background . ’ |
| 21 | If I were still at Bewick , I should still have my vision of myself quite obliterated by your violent view of how I should be , but I am free now and you can not put the chains back on , it is too late , I am growing up . ’ |
| 22 | To explain my curiosity I should perhaps explain my definition of excellence . |
| 23 | This means that someone must urgently bring his case to the attention of the Attorney General and ask him to look at it . |
| 24 | I might easily lose my sense of our quarry . ’ |
| 25 | Much as I would enjoy debating this matter with the hon. Gentleman , whom I might also call my hon. Friend , I do not wish to go down this path . |
| 26 | ‘ I might even change his mind about marriage . |
| 27 | I was forced to pay more attention to lessons in science and history at Varndean , purely so that I might better understand my other , shadowier tutelage . |
| 28 | ‘ The one woman for whom I might almost leave my roulette table . ’ |
| 29 | There was one day when I was in Dunedin preparing a preview for a match the next day and was told that late in the afternoon Otago would be training at Carisbrook and I might there obtain their team for the morrow . |
| 30 | I might mistakenly describe my sensory state as being an experience of pink ( things look pink to me here ) when in fact it is an experience of orange . |