Example sentences of "[pron] i [modal v] [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think if you 'll excuse me I 'll just take a little nap . |
| 2 | The doctors told me I would never have a child of my own . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , I 'd still like to get married , but if someone actually proposed to me I 'd probably run a mile from that as well . ’ |
| 4 | He told me I should never use a leash . |
| 5 | Instead I have to start by describing something of the unease I feel about its use and study within the literature , and gradually move toward a position from which I can either offer a definition of labourism or construct boundaries within which it exists and operates . |
| 6 | In my observatory I have a 39-cm reflector , with which I can often use a power of × 600 . |
| 7 | But as we walked further the noise we had heard , which at first might have been taken for wind and rain , began to break up into shouts , cries , calls , over a ground-bass which I can only call a sigh : a deep sigh , repeated over and over , as if the wide world itself were sighing . |
| 8 | So if I were you I would just have a word with your insurance company and make sure that everything 's okay but you 're obviously , they must know that you 've got to leave your er fridge-freezer switched on , so you 've got to have your mains electrics on . |
| 9 | Just , if I were you I 'd just do a little on it , every time you practised , and then put it away . |
| 10 | That whole shopping trip was something I 'd rather draw a veil over , not because it was mildly larcenous ( okay , illegal ) but because my street cred would be severely dented if the saga got out . |
| 11 | There were no brothers and sisters for me to play with , and the only one I could really call a playmate was Derek Brown who lived just ten minutes away from Low Birk Hatt at Blackton Farm . |
| 12 | And erm when I 'd finished with him I 'd perhaps get a two or three specked apples or a banana or something like you see . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , in my view , Mrs. X has been shabbily treated in what I can only call a squalid affair . |
| 14 | I am sure that many must , like myself , have the feeling that the small democratic element which still exists within the governmental and constitutional framework of this country is being cast aside in favour of what I can only call a self-perpetuating oligarchy . |
| 15 | That most people you know , they wo n't try something like that , I mean , I know I 'm a bit like that myself I 'd sooner have a steak . |
| 16 | For a treat for myself I 'd occasionally buy a cream cake . |