Example sentences of "i [modal v] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it lukks as if I ll have tae mind wan thing when Ah meet your incomer pals , Isabel . |
| 2 | I may rely on the arbitrator . |
| 3 | ‘ No , no , ’ said Dinah hastily , ‘ I am sure that I may rely upon your word . |
| 4 | Any scandal I may commit in my period out of my home would seriously affect my younger brothers and sisters . |
| 5 | If I use the expression ‘ I have toothache ’ I may think of it as ‘ being used naturally ’ or otherwise , but it would be wrong to say that I had a reason for thinking either . |
| 6 | I may long for her . |
| 7 | I have always been desirous of devoting what little capability and energy I may possess to the country which I love most dearly . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ My lord , if I may speak for Shrewsbury , both abbey and town , I must tell you how grateful we are that Saint Winifred fell into such noble hands as yours . |
| 9 | If I may speak for the Law Officers of the Crown , we are scrupulous in bearing that vital principle in mind . |
| 10 | If I may speak as one who has heard all the centenary lectures and restraining myself from being invidious , I will merely say : George , it was an admirable centenary lecture , and the huge spinning top of words , despite its complexity , kept the patterns clear and sharp and arguable . |
| 11 | ‘ And your father — if I may speak of him too — was a man all of us admired … ’ |
| 12 | Arriving at the podium to a standing ovation , Jesse asked for the house lights to be raised — ‘ so that I may speak unto the people ’ . |
| 13 | Erm , I think I 'll leave it at that for this moment in time and er if I may speak at at the end . |
| 14 | ‘ If I may speak in a spirit of complaint , David , I might point out that it 's easy for you to talk and even easier to talk tough . |
| 15 | Pray tell me , Joan Halidon , that I may depend on your loyalty to my daughter . ’ |
| 16 | I append a list of the 15 drawings that we should like to borrow , and should be grateful if you would assign individual values to them so that I may arrange for them to be covered by government indemnity while in our care . |
| 17 | I may moan about them — I reserve the right to criticise the team , but I would never wish for one of our players to get an injury — that is insane . |
| 18 | This proposition may be illustrated by considering a situation in which an investor creates a portfolio consisting of share I and the market portfolio M. If the proportion invested in I is defined as W i ( in effect W i measures the excess demand for asset I when positive and excess supply of asset I when negative ; when W i is zero then the capital market is in equilibrium as there is neither excess demand nor excess supply of asset I ) and the proportion invested in M as ( ) , an infinite number of portfolios may be created where the weights for I may vary between +1and -1 . |
| 19 | While I am on my feet , perhaps I may apologise for referring in an earlier answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Northampton , North when I meant my hon. Friend the Member for Littleborough and Saddleworth ( Mr. Dickens ) , who made the suggestion . |
| 20 | I may hunt with my lords Fitzwilliam and Forester and Hawke , but here in the East Riding they still have standards to maintain . ’ |
| 21 | And in this instance , he is only too aware of the kind of judgements I may make about him as a child reader , and tailors his reply accordingly . |
| 22 | The back row played well and so did the front three , so any optimism I may feel about the future is well grounded . |
| 23 | ‘ I may go into Tewkesbury this afternoon , Mum . |
| 24 | I may go to my son 's room and say to him : ‘ Since today is a special day you may play in my study while I work there . ’ |
| 25 | I do n't know if I shall join the company yet , I may do , I may go to Paris , I may die , my face may even turn blue . |
| 26 | Then I may go to the Antarctic , maybe back to the South Pole again , hopefully with Nicky . ’ |
| 27 | I may go to bed early and read me books . |
| 28 | I may sing like Marcel Marceau , but it was never a style . |
| 29 | I do not believe , whatever I may mean by God , that it could be said of God that God was differently related to one age or people than God is related to all ages or people . |
| 30 | Indeed , if I may build on what they have said and sum up my position on the future of the European Community , it is this : in the new Europe that has emerged from the ashes of the second world war and now from the grim shadows of the cold war , new possibilities for peace and prosperity across Europe exist which have probably never before been seen on that continent . |