Example sentences of "i [vb mod] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I use the expression ‘ I have toothache ’ I may think of it as ‘ being used naturally ’ or otherwise , but it would be wrong to say that I had a reason for thinking either . |
| 2 | I may long for her . |
| 3 | ‘ And your father — if I may speak of him too — was a man all of us admired … ’ |
| 4 | I append a list of the 15 drawings that we should like to borrow , and should be grateful if you would assign individual values to them so that I may arrange for them to be covered by government indemnity while in our care . |
| 5 | I may moan about them — I reserve the right to criticise the team , but I would never wish for one of our players to get an injury — that is insane . |
| 6 | And in this instance , he is only too aware of the kind of judgements I may make about him as a child reader , and tailors his reply accordingly . |
| 7 | I sometimes think I may live with it for a lifetime and never really know it intimately . |
| 8 | Vassilios Karatzias , the Greek No.1 in a country with only nine professionals , said : ‘ I may look like him , but I do n't play like him . |
| 9 | My speech was directed at Karen Parsons , and whatever reservations you or I may have about it , I can assure you it went down a treat with its target audience . |
| 10 | yeah because ten to fifteen years earlier there was n't this amount of class consciousness and now you 're saying that bond 's completely broken down which I may agree with you on but , but they 're now organizing themselves purely on this hey we 're all friends now or s and we 've got ta gang together all seventy percent of us against the landlords which was n't |
| 11 | I feel confident because I know I came out to help : directly , by leading them as well as an officer can ; indirectly , by watching their sufferings so that I may plead for them as well as I can . |
| 12 | As she is mine , I may dispose of her … |
| 13 | The form of words that he used were these : ‘ Lord king , I do you homage for all the lands which I ought to hold from you ’ . |
| 14 | One gentleman I ought to mention to you in this connection — my friend Mr. Michael Barry tells me — is the writer in ‘ Property and Finance ’ , which some of you may have read . |
| 15 | He later explained his reasons in English Farming , and Why I Turned It Up ( 1894 ) in the preface to which he wrote : ‘ I can remember the time when people used to talk to me about farming and explain how I ought to go about it . |
| 16 | I ought to write to her at some point . |
| 17 | ‘ Is there anything else like that I ought to know about him ? ‘ |
| 18 | ‘ And is there anything else I ought to know about you ? ’ |
| 19 | Well I 'm bothered about her health and that and that 's what I must emphasize to her if she 's listening that er as far as we 're concerned we would want to just give her some sympathy advice and support in relation to this matter . |
| 20 | ‘ I must go to them . ’ |
| 21 | I must go to her now . |
| 22 | If Ruth needs me , I must go to her . ’ |
| 23 | He was already on his way to the door , muttering , ‘ The London Hospital — I must go to her . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I must go to her . ’ |
| 25 | There are things I must do to you . ’ |
| 26 | I knew I must talk with her again , but at that moment I was content to have used the words of the last of the great desert explorers . |
| 27 | I must talk with you . ’ |
| 28 | But I suppose I must talk to them because that man was an American . |
| 29 | I must talk to him ! ’ |
| 30 | Now , everybody 's instinct is to think , ‘ My goodness , I must give way , I , you know , they really need it , I must talk to him down the telephone . ’ |