Example sentences of "i [vb mod] [verb] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In our various parties , organizations and institutions therefore we urgently need to recognize that most of our programmes , not least the programmes of our conferences and synods if I may leave you together in sin brothers and sisters |
| 2 | But I did n't mean it then , and who knows , I may mean it now . |
| 3 | If I sit here alone I may reach it yet . " |
| 4 | Just before we go we are going to hear a recording of a song that 's been referred to which I think is called the greatest love of all which I 'm told we 'll all know by heart er this time next year hmm erm anyway on that note if I may thank you very , very much indeed and I leave you with best wishes for a highly , highly successful birthday year . |
| 5 | If I may broaden it away from erm the Cardinal Newman School and think probably of a lot of East Sussex Comprehensive Schools , I think we have all been , in the schools , in the last few years , working hard to establish this openness , and I think that the closed concept of the school , the school that locks children out at break or locks children out at dinner time , which only allows parents to come in for a phoney Open Day when there are a few children there , they are things largely , I think , of the past and they are the closed society . |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps I may call you there ? ’ |
| 7 | If the house was above the road , it came from it , and cross 'd the way to run to another ; if the house was below us , it cross 'd us from some other distant house above it , and at every considerable house was a manufactory or work-house , and as they could not do their business without water , the little streams were so parted and guided by gutters and pipes , and by turning and dividing the streams , that none of those houses were without a river , if I may call it so , running into and through their work-houses . |
| 8 | Must now conclude trusting my dear that every blessing will attend you and trusting I may find you well when I return — kiss dear Fritz [ ? ] for me and believe me to remain Eliza |
| 9 | Yet if I say I love him , she thought , watching his capable hands on the wheel , I may frighten him away . |
| 10 | However , what the hon. Gentleman says is a new one on me , if I may put it as basically as that . |
| 11 | But resurrection to a Messianic Kingdom is surely implied in the words of the mother of the Seven Martyrs in II Maccabees : " Fear not this executioner , but proving thyself worthy of thy brethren , accept thy death that in the mercy of God I may receive thee again with thy brethren . " |
| 12 | She thought : I ought to leave him here . |
| 13 | ‘ But I 've been wondering whether I ought to consult someone professionally about it . ’ |
| 14 | He said , ‘ Perhaps I ought to take you home . ’ |
| 15 | I think I ought to see her again — just once , to reassure myself that all the old feelings really are as dead as I believe . |
| 16 | I 'm not quite sure what I ought to tell you yet . |
| 17 | ‘ Perhaps I ought to warn her tonight that you know . ’ |
| 18 | I ought to warn him too . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I ought to make it quite clear to you , ma'am , ’ he murmured in the taxi , ‘ that any knickers you may be wearing may well be taken down and used in evidence . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ You 've told me who you are , ’ Veronica continued , ‘ so I ought to introduce myself properly . |
| 21 | I ought to run you home . |
| 22 | In fact technically I ought to have someone else here as well , but I thought that as the sergeant knew the facts of the enquiry ( in fact he was instrumental in getting the information we 'd like to question you about ) , it would keep it in the family so to speak if he acted as my amanuensis , that 's the word , is n't it , Sergeant Pascoe ? ’ |
| 23 | Oh I must tell him then ! |
| 24 | I must tell you exactly what happened , even if I do not agree with it . |
| 25 | Oh they had I must tell you now that at the time that we had n't got a car at all , on the occasion of a royal visit , or some very important action being taken , my Chief Constable used to hire a chauffeur driven car from Mr of Lane in Ipswich . |
| 26 | ‘ As an astrologer , I must tell you there is a conjunction in Uranus . ’ |
| 27 | and nibbled cornets down to thimbles — bit by bit , the way I must invent him now … |
| 28 | ‘ But I must quote him here : You ai n't seen nothing yet . ’ |
| 29 | As the Prime Minister savours one of his last few busy days before the deluge , will he think back to the dinner that he gave at No. 10 Downing street last November on behalf of the Tory party for what The Sun — I must quote it accurately because it is from The Sun — |
| 30 | I remember when the wild-west look was in fashion , though I must confess I never really cared for it myself . ’ |