Example sentences of "i [vb mod] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er the point I would like to make if I may is with er regard to the question of a a positive statement er that car dependency should be reduced and er more emphasis given to the availability and use of bus transport erm as well as t er rail transport . |
| 2 | I 've come to see if I may be of use . ’ |
| 3 | I am very honoured as Rector to be associated with this great University and hope that during my period of office should you decide to come here , that I may be of assistance to you during that time . |
| 4 | BY the time you read this , I may be on my knees , along with millions of other Christian people , at the Solemn Liturgy for Good Friday . |
| 5 | ‘ I may be against this on principle but I do n't see why I should n't be able to make a little bit of capital , ’ he added . |
| 6 | ‘ Pray permit me to go to him , that I may be by his side at his coronation . |
| 7 | ‘ I may be in tears , ’ said Henry , ‘ I may just … you know … blub ! ’ |
| 8 | I now come to a very controversial point on which I may be in a minority , but I think there is far too much written material with classical CDs . |
| 9 | Even though I may be in a minority , I feel quite strongly that the job of the record companies is to issue recordings of music at prices the music loving public can afford — not to enhance that price by paying for learned disquisitions seeking to explain what ought to need no explanation . |
| 10 | I may be in a murderous place , but I am in a sensible country . |
| 11 | I must be with my Minister at ten but I 'll come back for the funeral … or if anyone else wants to talk to me … ’ |
| 12 | And I must be on top to let him take the full force of the impact . |
| 13 | I must be on my way . " |
| 14 | " Well , I must be on my way . |
| 15 | Now , I must be on my way . |
| 16 | I knew I must be of officially dead . |
| 17 | I am not looking for money , just a deep involvement and I must be worth a telephone call . |
| 18 | He did n't know ‘ what statement Mr. Gibbon had made to the other gentlemen or what reasoning they could have employed so as to sign a paper declaring the fact of urinous vomiting to be utterly impossible — here I must be at issue with them believing as I do … from my little physiological knowledge , that vomiting of urine for 26 weeks is by no means impossible … ’ . |
| 19 | My father may well wish for me a second marriage , and to that end I must be at offer soon , and with a proper dowry . |
| 20 | ‘ And now , Sergeant , I must be about my business . |
| 21 | ‘ I have n't even seen the original series — I must be about the only guy in the western hemisphere who has n't , ’ he said as the cast walked up the plank in Irvine , Ayrshire , to inspect the Vital Spark for the first time . |
| 22 | ‘ I must be off home . |
| 23 | — come on , I must be off my tiny thorax — |
| 24 | Nowadays the public attitude is much more likely to be : I must be in the house at 10.30 to watch Sports Report or whatever . |
| 25 | I think truly , he thinks I must be in love with him , and he does n't want to complicate things . " |
| 26 | Unless your father wishes to detain me , I must be in Nanking three hours from now to meet Major Karr . ’ |
| 27 | I was beginning to think I must be in the doghouse for some reason . ’ |
| 28 | I think I must be in love . |
| 29 | Goodness , I must be in a state of trauma to have forgotten that none of them had drunk either at lunch-time or in the afternoon . ’ |
| 30 | I think I must be like my mother , she is always letting herself be interviewed , my father says its vulgar , but she likes it , she likes people coming to ask her questions about herself and how she makes coffee and who she his to dinner and what kind of paper she writes on , she says it makes her feel as though she really has got somewhere in her life . |