Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [conj] i [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took it for granted that I could associate with people from all walks of life , from every background . |
| 2 | There are , indeed , many ways of praying and I will deal with some of them later . |
| 3 | An East and West Association had been formed and I took an early opportunity of asking if I might address it . |
| 4 | If I 'm if I I am in luxurious position of saying that I can fit you in to some of these companies . |
| 5 | Once everybody else has gone off and done their bit , I 've either got a job I 'm in the middle of doing or I 'll plan some work for another time . |
| 6 | It is essential for us to improve the funeral profession 's awareness of the benefits of embalming and I would urge that the Members of this Institute , through the offices of public relations continue to provide platforms to promote the Science of Embalming . |
| 7 | I had to abandon the stall , and went into hiding until I could arrange to leave the country secretly . |
| 8 | I was certainly to do with feeling that I would have to be a little bit slimmer , that I would have to be acceptable to other people , that I would have to change my shape and at the same time , I could not resist consuming large amounts of food . |
| 9 | ‘ For once , not Rosemary , though I 'm getting more and more desperate about not knowing what to do for the best , ’ he confessed , but went on to explain , ‘ I spent a lot of time yesterday in realising that I must have been a real wet blanket when Naylor announced your engagement on Saturday . ’ |
| 10 | When I mentioned Burma , his feeling of satisfaction was obvious , though his sense of integrity had prevented him from deciding that I should go to a country so close to his own heart . |
| 11 | But in saying that I 'll go ahead , I 'll go ahead with what Robert said although it seems as if erm between us we picked up on a lot of things , there was some objections that Martin threw at you that I thought you handled particularly well . |
| 12 | As it had been years since I had been anywhere further away from Fontanellato than Parma , I had no hesitation in saying that I would like to go to Bologna . |
| 13 | I do n't know whether you 'll think I 'm boasting but that is n't the case , but I never ever regretted it and it a great deal of respect for me , you know and I could see that and did appreciate it and I know the people appreciated it just the same and erm it 's gone on from then till now but about , I retired in seventy-three , I was sixty-five and I said I 'd only do what anybody wanted for me , cos they had me in for the tax and I never ever heard twenty-one I think it was or thirty-one in come and I 'd go before I could satisfy them at Walsall but er I 'd got , not got enough money to be taxed in the bank , which was true . |
| 14 | Well I 'll go to canvassing and I 'll get your name down in there . |
| 15 | ‘ I do not want to view any of what has happened in a negative light , though it goes without saying that I could have done without the loss of our first-pick forwards for a game of this type . ’ |
| 16 | It was disappointing to discover on asking if I could have them to find that the museum had only just got round to registering what appeared to be Audubon 's proofs . |
| 17 | Thus I might say to someone " Let's go and find out which is the oldest tree in the park " , without fearing that I may have said something unintelligible just because neither of us is certain what the outcome of our search will be . |
| 18 | I 'm just gon na see if I can find a clarity index . |
| 19 | I was never really good at pretending that I could assume my client to be innocent because I or my instructing solicitor had been careful to ensure that he did n't actually confess . |
| 20 | I distinctly remember feeling guilty at thinking that I would have to lock my car so these children would n't steal my cameras . |
| 21 | At a clandestine meeting in a North London bar , Brown tested me out by seeing if I could listen — without puking — to his stories about shagging wild women who dipped his dick in chocolate mousse . |
| 22 | Since I accept his primary submission I do not find it necessary to consider his other options , but I observe that in every case they would involve the court in a far more creative exercise in framing the law , which I doubt we would be entitled to undertake , than by holding as I would do that a corporate public authority has no right to sue for the tort of defamation and is to be left , if necessary , to such other rights as it may have , in particular the right to sue for malicious falsehood . |
| 23 | Guevara begun by saying that I must understand the Cuban revolution . |