Example sentences of "i [vb mod] [verb] [to-vb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though I may fail to carry it out to the full in this life , my faith in it shall abide . ’ |
| 2 | One day I may attempt to buy it back from him . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I must choose to give it all back to you and to feel the happy liberation of unpossessiveness . |
| 7 | And when I think of my daughters growing up in that atmosphere , in that society , I feel I must try to avoid it if in any way I can . |
| 8 | Certainly my personal reaction when hearing of the unexpected death of someone I know has always been , ‘ I must wait to have it confirmed in some sort of irrevocable way because I 'm sure I must have got it wrong ’ . |
| 9 | For , given her Marxist-Hegelian approach ( as I should want to call it ) , all reality tends to be collapsed into history . |
| 10 | ‘ I should like to do it myself . |
| 11 | but I should like to examine it for a little longer . |
| 12 | I should like to return it , if I may . |
| 13 | ‘ If I am to be disappointed , I should like to get it over . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I should like to smash it all up , ’ said Finn , who had been beaten . |
| 15 | But I should like to make it clear that the suggestion that BAT has been ‘ dumping ’ this pesticide in Kenya has not foundation of truth whatsoever . |
| 16 | I should like to make it clear from the outset that I am participating in this conference not as an expert on any aspect of the teaching of languages , but rather as someone whose primary concern is with the structure of language and , more generally , the nature of cognitive processes . |
| 17 | I should like to make it clear that the provisions of the Government Bill will provide householders with the same level of protection as that which existed under the private Bill , and they are set out fully in schedule 7 . |
| 18 | I should like to make it clear to the House that I accept full responsibility for the actions taken in this case by officials of the Home Office and by my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary , who dealt with it . |
| 19 | But I should have to consider it very carefully indeed . |
| 20 | I spend my life in supermarkets — buying food I 'll probably never eat , but buy just in case I might want to eat it . |
| 21 | Leslie thrust it into my hand , thinking that I might want to keep it — surely a prophetic gesture . |
| 22 | I had purposely left it unwashed , stuffing it in a suitcase because I might need to spread it out on my bridegroom 's bed in the dark of night . |
| 23 | But I might have to cancel it on what , what Deborah 's said . |
| 24 | I might have to modify it in the light of circumstances . |
| 25 | What I 'll do to pick it up play a game , probably play a game later . |
| 26 | ‘ Suppose I 'll 'ave to do it then . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I 'll endeavour to keep it under control , ’ she informed him gravely . |
| 28 | Or I I 'll start to read it . |
| 29 | I 'll arrange to have it delivered — ’ |
| 30 | if I find it too much , cos I start , I 'm starting a full time job again , I , I 'll ask to share it hopefully . |