Example sentences of "i [vb mod] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Excuse me let's eat tonight mind . |
| 2 | ‘ Give me a light that I may tread safely |
| 3 | I SAID to the man who stood at the gate of the year , ‘ Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown ’ . |
| 4 | In choices of means , I may pay severely for failing to recognize the equality of personal as of spatial and temporal viewpoints , if for example I lose awareness of the fact that a competitor 's need and determination is as great as mine ; but in choosing between our ends , nothing compels me to feel the pull of his inclination equally with mine , other than a recognition that it is illogical to shut my eyes in one case to what I am forced to acknowledge in the other . |
| 5 | ‘ We live in a monarchy , and if I may speak personally , I hope and believe we always will . |
| 6 | Tell me that , so I may hope still to find , one day , a man of pure heart . |
| 7 | Similar impressions seem to arise from sentences such as I may leave tomorrow and I can finish it next week . |
| 8 | But if I may make so bold — will you be careful of my master ? |
| 9 | " Well , " she said , looking at them in turn again , lifting her face to gaze directly at Graham , " if I may make so bold , chaps , how about a drink ? |
| 10 | When I started refereeing in the 1960s the props ' attitude was : ‘ I may go backwards in a scrummage , but I will never go down ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ You mean I may go soon ? ’ |
| 12 | I may go even further than the Long Drive , he 'd said . |
| 13 | I may go there . |
| 14 | I may give away everything I have , and even give up my body to be burned — but if I have no love this does me no good . |
| 15 | I may eat too much , I know I drink too much , but I pursue justice and do the best I can . ’ |
| 16 | Pray God that I may live yet awhile for your sakes , and you shall enter into great honour , and they shall kiss your hands . |
| 17 | Is there no gentleman or lady of virtue in this neighbourhood to whom I may fly only till I can find a way to get to my poor father and mother ? |
| 18 | I may work backwards from there . ’ |
| 19 | If I may come tomorrow ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ If I may come straight to the point , sir . |
| 21 | Perhaps I may turn briefly to the higher rates , which may be in the minds of some , and ask whether it would be possible to picket Park lane , to ask those attending this evening 's £500 per head dinner whether they are paying more tax this year at the lower rate , or whether they paid more tax in 1979 at Labour 's higher rates ? |
| 22 | Remarks made by the Senior Management Team about the value of these ‘ minutes ’ in the absence of their own , points to the possibility that I may have slightly biased the proceedings by asserting my interpretation of events . |
| 23 | I may have already sent this , but if not . |
| 24 | In my blunderings around Enniskillen , I may have inadvertently done some harm , as foreigners do in Communist lands by innocently befriending natives who are then shadowed by the secret police and later imprisoned or shot . |
| 25 | We may say , ’ Eat your heart out ’ to Norman , to Peter , to William , to Austin and to others , if I may use just first names . |
| 26 | I may seem very reasonable at the moment , but I do n't feel it . |
| 27 | ‘ So that I may enter alone , of course . |
| 28 | I must say that I do not at present find the time at all tedious and I may say scarcely monotonous . |
| 29 | ‘ If I may say so your sister was particularly emphatic on the point . ’ |
| 30 | Now , you 're a plants-woman of no small renown , if I may say so , your ladyship . |