Example sentences of "i [modal v] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What pleases me may not please you , and my recommendation may disappoint you — and then what would you think ? |
| 2 | ‘ I know what you 'd like to do — and it may surprise you , Kit , if I admit that part of me may even want to myself . |
| 3 | There was a long silence before Ipuky continued , ‘ What is said about me should not concern you . |
| 4 | I was more of an outsider than ever , but something in me must still have wanted to belong to the family because I was still making deliberate attempts to communicate with the other members . |
| 5 | Mr , I I I have many matter to consider in my report , so I let's not widen it even further into this rather wider philosophical matter . |
| 6 | Had things gone wrong with me , I may ultimately have been sent to prison . |
| 7 | ‘ Please honour me with your next command , that I may instantly leap to do your bidding . ’ |
| 8 | Anything that I may lawfully do I may also lawfully threaten to do , whatever the motive or purpose of my threat . |
| 9 | ‘ I may even give you some more . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I may even give you a bonus if Silvia does well in her exams . ’ |
| 11 | And I believe there 's some roadworks at Stafford , I might even get on my teletext and look and see what roadworks are on the M six , I may even give the A A a ring , to say , but it 's all on teletext and this sort of thing . |
| 12 | ‘ I may even recover my northern accent lost over the years spent away , ’ he said . |
| 13 | I may even ask to see a priest , but the essential point remains the same . |
| 14 | I may even learn to tango ! |
| 15 | I may even have said in the spirit of the joke that it had been one hundred and fifty-six whores , for all the world as though it was of an obsessive importance for the actual number to be known with absolute accuracy ! |
| 16 | ‘ I may even have to sell the house in Ladbroke Grove to pay for the losses . ’ |
| 17 | In fact I may even have them be in here . |
| 18 | I may even have redecorated the sitting room by then ! |
| 19 | I may even have just called for him and stood at the door . |
| 20 | ‘ I may even buy the whole thing myself if the price is right . ’ |
| 21 | I may even get a job . ’ |
| 22 | I may also add , in passing , that Miller has brown eyes whereas I have blue , black hair where mine is red , good eyesight whereas I am a little shortsighted . |
| 23 | It is a shame that our up and coming indie bands who I may also add do play proper live music ( TEN TON WEIGHT-STYLE KERSPLAT ! ) |
| 24 | I may also have dwelt too long on the years between 1690 and 1730 , but this was simply because it seems to be most people 's favourite period . |
| 25 | Realizing that I may well end up the whipping boy if things go wrong , I attempt , in bankers ' parlance , to ‘ cover my ass ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ I am not a dog , ’ she said sharply , baring her teeth , ‘ but I may well bite . |
| 27 | But if I , with the very same eyes and brain , am walking through a forest at dusk , I may well fail to distinguish almost any dull-coloured insect from the twigs that abound everywhere . |
| 28 | If I notice the banker fidget and look at his watch , I may well conjecture that the game is about to be brought to an end , and I may therefore feel tempted to defect . |
| 29 | Erm , something else that I may well do with this spreadsheet as well I can foresee is , insert an extra |
| 30 | It may well be the case , as Struan says , that Beethoven displays more artistic merit than Struan , but if Struan 's music uses overdriven guitars , I may well prefer to listen to it . |