Example sentences of "i [vb mod] [adv] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I may also be permitted to use some of your space to assure your readers that the arrival of Triassic and Lilla for our Summer Gala ( June 20th/21st ) was not intended to be in any way the last minute and the locomotives arrived just two days before the event , so we preferred not to advertise them in advance so as to avoid disappointment . |
| 2 | I may well be addressing a future Inquisitor — ’ |
| 3 | Just across the street from here , I think — although after so long I may well be mistaken . |
| 4 | Patting the chair beside him , he told Daisy , ‘ If Perdita gets the scholarship , Sukey and I may well be going out to New Zealand at the same time to buy some ponies , so we can keep an eye on her . ’ |
| 5 | My meadow , which I may well be contemplating with pleasure even as you read this , is a delight . |
| 6 | ‘ It may not arise because I may not be staying . ’ |
| 7 | Sub-text : ‘ I have to convey my message , which is more important than yours ( and I may not be listening to you ) . ’ |
| 8 | It 's just possible Mr Deputy Speaker , it 's just possible I may not be selected for all kinds of reasons but if I was selected it might at least give the people of that lovely part of the world the chance of having the referendum they never had over Maastricht because of the shameful way in which the Labour party was not willing to allow the people to have their say on that vital issue . |
| 9 | I have begun to sense that , despite the touching and the ‘ precious boy ’ , I may not be headed for the Dark where the soft , fat spiders watch and wait . |
| 10 | ‘ I may not be screwing Lucy , ’ said Jay coldly . |
| 11 | ‘ I may not be allowed to stay here , ’ the woman said . |
| 12 | The expansiveness came to an end in the middle of 1940 , when he demanded better terms for Cotton Town than had been offered : ‘ The first book did well for you ( for me too , I readily admit ) , and since I may soon be called up , and have a wife and child to support , I should like to leave them as well provided for as possible . ’ |
| 13 | In choosing my own path I recognized that I may indeed be isolated , lonely and rejected by my family in a racist , sexist , homophobic country . |
| 14 | How should indexicals be accommodated , so that the notion of logical consequence , as it applies for example to the inference from ( 14 ) to ( 15 ) , can also be applied to the inference from ( 16 ) to ( 17 ) ? ( 14 ) John Henry McTavitty is six feet tall and weighs 200 pounds ( 15 ) John Henry McTavitty is six feet tall ( 16 ) I am six feet tall and weigh 200 pounds ( 17 ) I am six feet tall Clearly , in order for ( 17 ) to be a valid inference from ( 16 ) , the referent of I must somehow be fixed — the inference does n't follow if ( 16 ) and ( 17 ) are said by different speakers . |
| 15 | I 'd seen two wonderful prints earlier : an American artist called Carol Grigg , not expensive , but I must n't be tempted . |
| 16 | Right , now I must n't be seen to be indicating in any way that er you do n't have to bother with it all , because they too put all out some excellent er booklets , brochures I 've got two thick pads of them which I 'll let you circulate . |
| 17 | Well you better erm no no no I must n't be seen to encourage that sort of thing . |
| 18 | I must n't be caught doing it |
| 19 | I must not be misunderstood . |
| 20 | Yet I must not be understood to rely on any so-called growth dividend . |
| 21 | ‘ I must not be understood to be laying down a rule that in no case where a wife acts on her husband 's instructions and under his influence is it necessary to show that she has received independent advice . |
| 22 | He added that I must not be intimidated by his and Rozanov 's fluency ; I was really quite good . |
| 23 | God , I do n't know if I should even be talking about it . ’ |
| 24 | It took me a long time to accept the fact that now I should not be killed — that I should be one of the survivors . |
| 25 | Edward , tired of the rules , encouraged by something in her voice , replied : ‘ If I were a gentleman , I should not be telephoning . |
| 26 | I should not be pressuring her in this way . |
| 27 | I should not be thrown around like luggage ! ’ |
| 28 | I should not be doing this . |
| 29 | According to court papers passed to the New York Post , Mr Boesky argued : ‘ I should not be forced … to incur further debt while [ Seema ] redecorates the marital estate and her penthouse apartment … and has personal expenses of almost $42,000 a month . ’ |
| 30 | All my life , he wrote , I have been preparing myself for this moment , but if I have prepared myself correctly then it is so that when the moment came I should not be encumbered with the sensation of having waited for it all my life , for such a sensation , wrote Harsnet , is too heavy a burden for anyone to carry . |