Example sentences of "[conj] i [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The brake and clutch are too close together for my modest size sevens , and there 's a huge foot-rest where I would normally expect a clutch pedal . |
| 2 | Or let my Lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely Tower Where I may oft outwatch the Bear . |
| 3 | Where I could also spend a great deal of time talking about our common enemies , our mutual friends and some of the similarity and our aims for world peace and again , I 'm gon na leave that for the statesmen and the politicians . |
| 4 | He expects a place in a Labour cabinet : Chief Whip for a short time , perhaps , then a portfolio of his own ‘ something where I could really help the North . ’ |
| 5 | I 'll go to church more often , or I 'll read my bible more regularly , or I 'll really make an issue about praying , it 's not , it 's not that at all . |
| 6 | Flying from London to Los Angeles I could make New York a genuine intermediate target by taking a stop-over or I could simply score the halfway mark on the total journey . |
| 7 | ‘ There 's nothing private , ’ answered Julia , ‘ although I would quite like the letter back when you 've shown it to her . ’ |
| 8 | The Bushman was following it , but suddenly he swerved aside and he went off in another direction and I followed him , although I could clearly see the buffalo hoofmarks leading off in the opposite way . |
| 9 | And although I could still hear the screams and although they were real and terrible I slept well and late . |
| 10 | Although I can now see the inherent sense in glueing a book to a table , then the point was just beyond me . |
| 11 | I realized that I might actually have a sin . |
| 12 | I knew that I would probably lose the case if I did , and lose everything , but for my own personal esteem I needed to actually make that stand . ’ |
| 13 | It is for the same reasons that I would now support the denationalization of British Rail . |
| 14 | I seriously felt that I had lost my ‘ commercial sense ’ that I had before , and that I would never remember the intricacies of the High Court Rules , how to draft Court Pleadings or even how to write a sensible letter . |
| 15 | I promised to myself that I would never write an article about having a baby , never ever write that a baby was a celebration and examination of the mystery of our own being , and of course avoid the trap of believing that we were the first and only couple to have a baby . |
| 16 | After the show , he said he would make me one and so I said that I would really like a sort of Gibson 355 , like BB was using in the mid-'60s and I would like my name on it and all sort of things . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , I said to Andy Johns , the producer , that I would really like the harmonica to sound like Levee Breaks . |
| 18 | As he puts it , with a certain dispassionate irony , in a letter of early 1870 : " I observe how my philosophical , moral and scholarly endeavours strive towards a single goal and that I may perhaps become the first philologist ever to achieve wholeness . " |
| 19 | That last , familiar , word was used by Nietzsche himself precisely in this context and at this time : " I observe how my philosophical , moral and scholarly endeavours strive towards a single goal and that I may perhaps become the first philologist ever to achieve wholeness . " |
| 20 | So you 're feeling relaxed and comfortable and good because you 're telling me , you know , what a great tennis player I am and I really enjoy it , you 've just given me a couple of names that I 'll either make a note of or I 'll say that 's interesting cos I actually deal with Joe on a business relationship anyway erm maybe we could meet some other people from the tennis club , self employed people , professional people such as yourself , who might be interested in looking at financial planning but today I 'm more interested in talking about you Bill , erm we 'll come back to them a bit later if I may so let's press on . |
| 21 | And I 'm gon na bet you that I 'll either get a red one or a blue one . |
| 22 | They echoed each phrase as he continued : ‘ … that I will never mention the existence of any such letter to anyone else — now , or at any time in the future , so help me , God . ’ |
| 23 | I do hope and pray that I will never have the need to use it . |
| 24 | Sometimes I have wondered myself , but have made so many friends and learnt so much that I can never regret the decision . |
| 25 | ‘ If it comes to that I can always use the excuse that Father needed me , ’ she answered calmly . |
| 26 | so that I can then confirm the booking . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's been such a long time , and I want you so much that I could easily make a mess of this , ’ he confessed . |
| 28 | I presume that Eliot , perhaps overestimating my powers , had thought that I could somehow write a piece which would have avoided causing offence . |
| 29 | You , you did promise me Mr Chairman , that I could just ask a quick question . |
| 30 | I do n't think that I could ever support the Peyton amendment , the amendment in the house of lords , which if I get it right , would permit B R as an organization to bid for franchises . |