Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [conj] i [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I said , he 's a casual friend of mine , he 's quite old , but he 's a very good painter , and he badly needs money and I should very much like some of his pictures . |
| 2 | Ahm well I have had uh yeah I mean I have had people if I 'd really wanted to but I mean we 've had baby sitters and things like that . |
| 3 | It is not like me to lack perception and I can only suppose that my enthusiasm overruled my common sense . |
| 4 | Mind you the shit I used to get away with at school , you know , just winding the teachers up and like generally taking the piss , I 'd always pay attention and I 'd always , always get good marks but somehow I think they seem to take pissing about slightly more seriously here . |
| 5 | ‘ I still love rugby so I will probably attempt to play a game . |
| 6 | I 'll go and get Andrew and I 'll just check with Steve that erm |
| 7 | We can play chess and I could probably correct your anti-materialist views on the coal industry in a matter of moments . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I could ask Sebastian but I 'd rather he did n't know . |
| 9 | well I 'm not gon na ask Chris cos I 'll just write a cheque to Society . |
| 10 | Erm , funnily enough earlier on in August , erm , I rang you up about Yugoslavia , and er , I , one of the reasons that I gave for not , the Europeans , not intervening in Yugoslavia was my fear that it might lead to the Russian military unseating Gorbachev and my , er , discard that the , the sick man of Russia , so erm , sort of parallel I , well I would n't parallel it with Yugoslavia , my argument in Yugoslavia was that we should n't intervene because we do not have primary interests with , I mean , well we clearly have general interest but we do n't have primary interest , additionally in Russia is that everybody , in the world have interest but I would definitely here say that Britain should clearly do nothing per . |