Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [verb] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps I may discuss a closely allied problem under Amendment No. 299 , to which a number of Hon. |
| 2 | I feel as if I ought to make a really profound statement about something ! |
| 3 | It was felt by some members , the secretary told me , that as I now had a residence in Edinburgh , I ought to become a fully paid-up member . |
| 4 | I felt I must keep a very firm hold on myself if I were not to lose control altogether . |
| 5 | ‘ First , I must get a little bigger , and second , I must find my way into that beautiful garden . |
| 6 | I feel that I should make a more concerted effort to leave my profession and find a new and more satisfying career . |
| 7 | ‘ I felt that I should hire a fully fledges historian , and Dr Kathryn Castle was terribly important to this book , as was her husband Paul , who is also an academic . |
| 8 | But if I had to choose a hunter for work in a particular type of country I should have a pretty good idea which would be the best animal to pick , though I might not be able to tell you how I went about it . ’ |
| 9 | A contract engineer called to my machine at work said that I should have a least eight inches of space all around it to prevent it from overheating or , if that did not solve the problem , it would need a new hard disk . |
| 10 | In your letter dated Tue , 18 Jan 94 10:25:54 MET , you wrote : If I thought Wilko was going there with the intent to win I might feel a little happier , but with the form as it is I think we 'll wind up in one of those boring 1–0 or 2–0 defeats where nothing exciting happens in the game . |
| 11 | Never mind , have a look and I might have a there we are how 's that , alright dear ? , you have a look |
| 12 | If I loved you , I might have a very good reason to tell you so . |
| 13 | Someone who admits I might know a little more than they do . |
| 14 | So I think that I 'll do a little more work on camera in a couple of years ’ time , and then see if I can become a proper writer . ’ |
| 15 | It 's just , well … maybe I 'll stay a little longer . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , then , I think I 'll stay a little longer . |
| 17 | " I 'll stay a little longer . |
| 18 | But I 'll need a little more time . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 'll have a little , thanks . ’ |
| 20 | Sometimes if I 've had a particularly bad day and I go out there thinking I 'm going to have a particularly bad gig I 'll have a really great one . |
| 21 | I 'm not , he 'll beat me this time , you watch , I 'll have a real hard one , I wo n't be able to answer anything ! |
| 22 | No , no , I 'll have a very , very , very , very weak shandy . |
| 23 | I 'll have a very small piece . |
| 24 | I think I 'll have a more mature attitude to work when I 'm a bit older and I wo n't feel I 've got to interrupt a career to start a family . |
| 25 | Erm , I would have to say that 's going to be in the range of five hundred to six hundred , and very much depends to some extent on what happens in the winter months , and I 'm sorry to keep stressing this point , but we have n't yet got twelve months ' experience of operating this particular change , and until we 've got at least a year 's experience , and I think one would have to say , that some of the figures need to be portioned , but equally , you ca n't afford to be too cavalier in terms of your assumptions about that demand might reduce to , and I 'll touch a little later on how you control expenditure in those terms . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'll help a little , ’ he said . |
| 27 | I could make a little more sense of the watchers and the watched . |
| 28 | A lovely lady , Molly Braithwaite , came to teach , and one day as I sat at the back I felt ‘ Surely I could do a little of that gently swinging ’ , picked up a club , and was off ‘ moving with the Medau ’ . |
| 29 | I thought about it for a while and then telephoned him to say that I could suggest a pretty easy solution , and indicated to him what it was . |
| 30 | I was examining the effect in the mirror before putting on the mask , vaguely wishing that I could levitate a little to improve the illusion . |