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Example sentences of "what i [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I walked slowly back up the shabby road to this now miserable room , thinking all the while of what I ought to do or what I could do if I was ever going to outmanoeuvre these cunning poisoners .
2	It 's the logical thing to do , now ; it 's what I ought to do .
3	‘ I am not doing what I ought to do , ’ he kept saying to himself .
4	I am not doing what I ought to do .
5	He 's a thief , a criminal , he nicked my bag and I had to sift through every shit-bin in Bristol till I found my dreams and found out what I ought to 've known all along if you had n't …
6	I 'm not quite sure what I ought to tell you yet .
7	Until she said in front of the Rembrandt , ‘ Do n't you think he got the teeniest bit bored halfway through — I mean I never feel I feel what I ought to feel .
8	I strolled on ( binoculars always at the ready , afraid of what I might miss ) as far as the Wire Dump Heligoland trap .
9	‘ Who knows what I might do one day ! ’
10	But I like learning new things and seeing new places , so one day who knows what I might do ! ’
11	Small children have strong ideas about what mothers do or do not do ; my own adolescent children are very worried about what I might do in public to embarrass them .
12	What I might do is steal credit cards and use them .
13	I went through cookbooks to see what I might do with it .
14	I told myself it was because you disgusted me , but really I was afraid of what I might do and say .
15	Erm , I never had any idea as to what I might do when I left school , in fact erm , apart from basket making and er one or two manual skills of that sort erm , there was n't much available .
16	And yet I risked everything I had worked towards , all the hope of what I might do in a position of real power , for something that was obviously doomed to failure from the start .
17	You did n't know what I might do and , in the same situation , I 'd have been fearful . ’
18	Or what I might do is make a couple of these up but fill them out a bit more .
19	I tell you what I might do tomorrow .
20	Well what I might do is just put one soap in each cos it
21	What I might do is go back to Marks .
22	we can always ask to put them away for a week yeah that 's what I might do
23	But I think possibly what I might do is try and make this grape vine one the first one where we actually do do it properly .
24	I have a look to see what I might wear today .
25	Have you any suggestions as to what I might try to overcome the problem ?
26	The first was what I might call her physical candour .
27	Chairman I think this is probably the first time in this council chamber in twenty years that er I will probably have spoken on er social services issues er and I speak from an entirely private capacity and any information that er that comes my way is from what I might call informed members of the public erm , people who I come into contact with and from my own experiences as a ward councillor and from as we all do from time to time , my own family experience , my own domestic experiences and I do know something about the problems which are associated with the the care of elderly people er although I do n't have that problem now erm things have taken their course .
28	Do you believe in what I might call national characteristics ?
29	Taste seemed irrelevant — but touch … how on earth could he expect me even to pretend to believe that what I might touch was ‘ psychic ’ ?
30	Where you might require specialist advice in what I might describe as ‘ stand alone ’ projects , which in themselves will generate a report , for example , the founder directors requiring a due diligence report on the target company or advice on establishing share option schemes or other suitable management incentives for the new company , I would expect , following a more detailed discussion to provide a separate terms of reference and fee estimate .