Example sentences of "[adv] i [modal v] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably I 'll have to transfer them to a separate tank first , but should it be planted or bare ? |
| 2 | Right I shall have let me go and get the matches . |
| 3 | Only I would have liked it to last a bit longer , ’ he added softly . |
| 4 | I have been here over a week now , and I miss you very much , and I miss the fresh air and the fresh faces of all those people I so hated on the Tube and the fresh things that happened every hour of every day if only I could have seen them — their freshness , I mean . |
| 5 | fiddle I 'll just have a bit of a fiddle well perhaps I 'll try running it on lead free petrol and see if that |
| 6 | Perhaps I ought to have told you before . |
| 7 | The last I remember thinking was that Syl should marry my mother , his contemporary , and that then perhaps I would have to call him Daddy . |
| 8 | ‘ Perhaps I would have liked him too — if I 'd known him . ’ |
| 9 | Or perhaps I should start calling you Stephen — I 'm nearly as old as you are now . |
| 10 | Cos Ken said , first of all he could n't find any and he said oh he said perhaps I should 've bought them when I saw them , nine ninety nine . |
| 11 | Perhaps I should have asked them if they were intending to introduce creche facilities or anything to help the working mum ? |
| 12 | ‘ Perhaps I should have killed you then , ’ Rosheen quietly . |
| 13 | ‘ Perhaps I should have joined you , ’ she said . |
| 14 | Perhaps I should have done it before , but I suppose one 's always afraid of making a fool of oneself . ’ |
| 15 | Perhaps I should have told her to concentrate on school . ’ |
| 16 | Perhaps I should have let them go . |
| 17 | Erm asking for permission to put their names forward and from the , the few letters we had the , this was that we thought was the whitest knights in terms of Geography in terms of sex in terms of I would n't say intelligence , perhaps I should try to impress them ! |
| 18 | Truthfully , of course ; I 'd see how it sounded , and if it were too reprehensible , well , I 'd just have to think up a good lie , that was all , right now at the outset , and stick to it until perhaps I 'd begin to believe it myself . |
| 19 | Perhaps I could have freeclimbed it , but the problem was that I could n't predict the pockets and I would n't have found out until it was too late to avoid a monster fall . |
| 20 | Perhaps I could have dissuaded her . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , obviously I 'll want to try her out . |
| 22 | Well obviously I 'll have to give you the illustrations . |
| 23 | Er I did bring it with me to give to but obviously I 'll have to send it now . |
| 24 | I mean obviously I 'd like to sell it all at price levels but there 's get away with that . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been told you 've recently specialled a similar medical case , but as Mr Francis is an accident case in addition to being allergic to antibiotics , personally I would have considered him a case for a trained special . |
| 26 | Personally I would have thought you had more ambition than that . ’ |
| 27 | Personally I would like to believe it to be peacefully verdant . |
| 28 | So I might have seen yours |
| 29 | So I would prefer to let you be the judge of it as it stands today . |
| 30 | So I would like to leave you with this suggestion that art , better than a scientifically-constructed computer , is a useful analogy for the brain , and that the more that can be found out about the workings of memory , the more usefully shall we be able to understand the links between them . |