Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In theory , the shareholders have legal control of the company , but in practice this is most often exercised by the directors who between them may have a small minority of the shares with the acquiescence of the institutions which are the major shareholders . |
| 2 | People who carry weapons into bank premises and threaten to use them must receive a severe sentence . ’ |
| 3 | It is only that I feel I may make a new friend and be rewarded with company . |
| 4 | If I live , I may have a crooked back like my father , but I 'll probably die . ’ |
| 5 | Sir , If you please to send me a scarlet Cardinal [ a short red cloak ] , and let it be full yard long , and rather longer than a yard long , and let it be full , for it be for a large Woman , they tell me I may have a long one , and a handsome one , for 11s but I shou 'd not be willing to give more than 12s , but if you have any as long as that , either duffil or cloth , if it is cheaper , I shou 'd like it as well as , for I am not to give but 12s for it . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I think I may have a wrong number , ’ it said . |
| 7 | If I ought to pay a fair price for what I buy then I ought to come back and add to the agreed price . |
| 8 | ‘ An' I must set a good table for the funeral . ’ |
| 9 | To escape from Heathcliff I must go a long way away . |
| 10 | I see that I must do a little bargaining on my own behalf . |
| 11 | I made Mrs Seale come with me in a cab from the theatre , saying I must visit a sick friend . |
| 12 | And I must make a real effort to find one of these machines that 's working . |
| 13 | And I must make a real effort to find one of these machines that 's working . |
| 14 | but I must make a historical excursion here to establish the background to this absolutely fundamental question . |
| 15 | Well then tomorrow I must make a little list , see cos I want to finish that baby 's jumper |
| 16 | But to answer it , I must make a considerable digression , to say something about how we get such beliefs by observation . |
| 17 | I must start a new life among strangers . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ And now ’ , she said , ‘ I must propose a special vote of thanks to Mr Barker to whom we all owe so much . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I must look a frightful sight , ’ she said . |
| 20 | I was sure I must look a different person , that my guilt and radiance must have transfigured me . |
| 21 | I must look a different being to yesterday . |
| 22 | Before going on to the second reason for Locke 's not acknowledging the existence of epistemic appearances I must correct a false impression I may have given , that all the seventeenth-century philosophers who succeeded Descartes toed the Cartesian line about the mind perceiving things by being causally affected by them . |
| 23 | I must have a good game against him . ’ |
| 24 | So okay I have n't seen I must have a tiny little book . |
| 25 | ( I 've done dozens of lectures now , in front of all sorts of people , and I always make it up as I go along , although I suppose I must have a rough idea about what I 'm going to say . ) |
| 26 | But then I must have a cold shower . |
| 27 | I must write a grand opera or none at all ; if I write a small one , I shall get very little for it ( for everything is taxed here ) . |
| 28 | Thus I can say this morning either during the morning or the afternoon , and refer to the same span ; whereas in Chinantec , I must use a different word for referring to the morning in the morning ( i.e. when the span includes CT ) from the one I use to refer to the morning in the afternoon ( i.e. when the span referred to excludes CT , but is within the same larger diurnal span as CT — Fillmore , 1975 : 47 ) . |
| 29 | I must get a good night 's sleep . ’ |
| 30 | I must get a little tiny erm filing cabinet sometime . |