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Example sentences of "i [vb mod] [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	He says me must have had his reasons .
2	To me resignation is a priceless liberation , for with it I have taken the first big step to that place where I may hope to wash my hands of what in my mind 's eye is the blood of millions of poor and starving peoples .
3	Though I may fail to carry it out to the full in this life , my faith in it shall abide . ’
4	I may decide to marry him .
5	‘ Because I may decide to re-christen you .
6	If I may start excuse me , my Lord Mayor , by answering something that appears to be confusing the Conservative benches .
7	‘ Now , if I may finish answering your question ? ’
8	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 .
9	However repellent I may happen to find them . ’
10	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 .
11	If you have influence over me , I may try to predict what signals you would like to see or hear , and consciously send them to you .
12	I may try to shrink myself to an infinitesimal point of thinking Ego to which all spontaneous process is external , but the spontaneous is always springing up at the centre of me , thrusting me forward or dragging me back , and it is only at the periphery that I can take full control of it .
13	One day I may attempt to buy it back from him .
14	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 .
15	‘ No , the only thing I regret is that I may have rushed you into something you 're already beginning to repent .
16	Like a politician I may have overstated my case to make my point .
17	‘ I may have to arrest you , Chief Inspector , for flirting with a member of Her Majesty 's Security Service . ’
18	‘ I think I may have heard it as a bedtime story when I was a small child . ’
19	Interviewed last year , Gagosian responded to the accusation that he had made transparencies of paintings reproduced in art magazines and offered them for sale as ‘ a scurrilous charge ’ — but he went on to admit ‘ Well , I may have done it once . ’
20	I may have done it .
21	I may have to save them .
22	Thus I might say to someone " Let's go and find out which is the oldest tree in the park " , without fearing that I may have said something unintelligible just because neither of us is certain what the outcome of our search will be .
23	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 .
24	Lastly , I fear I may have to disappoint you when I say that the coin is more interesting than valuable .
25	I may have sent it quicker over the goal line with this touch , but I think it would have reached it in any case . ’
26	However , I can only look at most of the styles you feature with envy as I have been very silly and think I may have damaged my hair forever .
27	‘ All right , we 'll leave it at that for the moment , but I may have to see you again . ’
28	Also , I may have given him the impression , with the urgency of youth possessed of strong convictions , that I wanted at all costs to have something published on this subject .
29	‘ As a matter of fact , I think I may have seen it . ’
30	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 .