Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] [conj] i [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must have waited several minutes , I should have known but I could n't bear the suspense . |
| 2 | He must have heard that I 'd come back from Ireland . |
| 3 | I 'll have to see if I can borrow a car . ’ |
| 4 | I 'll have to see if I can get some banana skins put on the stairs . |
| 5 | ‘ It would be a last resort but one I 'll have to take if I ca n't trace him soon . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ And when I make it to the charts , then I 'll have to admit that I will have owed it to the world 's greatest entertainer ever — Elvis the King of Rock . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I might have done if I could have got my arms free , ’ Leith replied , and took another sip of her coffee . |
| 8 | especially if I were to actually get , if I get that I 'd consider going if I could get a place in the halls , the residence |
| 9 | I 'd like to feel that I can rely on you for help . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd like to think that I can offer useful opinions on other positions , and that I would n't be confined to just the back row , ’ he said . |
| 11 | ‘ To tell you the truth , I do n't know , but I 'd like to think that I could have pulled the trigger if I 'd had to . |
| 12 | Oh Charlie shut her up at , at Chris 's mums funeral , when we went to Chris 's mum funeral , she 's erm , she said something or other about , request something or other about , pointing at the I should n't 've been there really because I did n't know her and Charlie said she felt did n't know her and erm she said oh well Rose never spoke about her , or words to that effect , Chris says the reason our mum never spoke about her cos she never showed her face in here anyway , he said when was the last time you see your mum , at that , she shut straight up like that , her face went , she 'd like saying that I should n't 've been there cos I did n't know her , I mean yet , she ai n't set foot in the house for fucking year like , you know she 's a horrible cow , and like when we went in the church , when we went in the crematorium er you had , she had a nice , big one up on the hill is it Arnold 's ? |
| 13 | I 'd like to know cos I can get , if I 'm getting say if I 'm getting about two |
| 14 | ‘ I suppose we could have gone but I would have preferred the holiday camp . ’ |
| 15 | Miss Giles said she knew nothing about copyright and admitted : ‘ I could have checked and I should have checked . ’ |
| 16 | I 'd have dithered and I 'd have got tired and I 'd gone off of |
| 17 | I 'd love to come if I may , and — I 'd like to ask you about something . |
| 18 | Yes I 'd love to think that I can struggle back with the tree . |
| 19 | ‘ This was in some way part of the whole thing , that I 'd blurt out what I 'd done and she 'd ask to see and I 'd have it on hand to show her . ’ |
| 20 | Now , what is it you would like to do if I ca n't persuade you to keep an old man company ? ’ |
| 21 | Can I say first of all that er I support the general approach which has been adopted by Yorkshire County Council and the the other local authorities in the Greater York area , on the way in which they 've formulated their proposals for the York greenbelt after a fairly long erm and exhausting process , the question to which I want to address my comments first of all is whether the new settlement is an appropriate and justified planning response , and what I would like to do if I may is look at some of the reasons that have been raised erm in objection to the new settlement as a strategy , erm these issues have been raised by Hambledon District , York City Council , the C P R E , Montague Evans , in their written submissions to the examination of the . |
| 22 | There is one more very special advantage to being a lodge owner that I would like to disclose if I may . |
| 23 | I own an ex-Irish army Series III 1972 Land Rover , I 've recently fitted a Range Rover V8 instead of the 2,25 and would like to know if I can put a transfer box on to a 5-speed SD1 gear box . |
| 24 | Er the point I would like to make if I may is with er regard to the question of a a positive statement er that car dependency should be reduced and er more emphasis given to the availability and use of bus transport erm as well as t er rail transport . |
| 25 | Hungry and cold would have to wait until I could go back to the cafe , dirty was obviously going to be more of a problem . |
| 26 | I know the little boys lean on her too much and I would have gone if I could . ’ |
| 27 | I mean , I think a lot of national organisations that are giving , I trust that are giving money to people actually do want to know that sort of detail about where the money is going , because , if I go through this , I mean , I would have to say that I should imagine that a very small percentage of the money that has been collected on these flag days will actually get back into Oxfordshire . |
| 28 | ‘ But , because I am relatively young , I still have the option of aiming for line management , though I would have to decide whether I would rather stay in contact with the patients . ’ |
| 29 | Well it , it I expected that he would have to go and I should have to manage on my own and it was quite er er a , a way to come down to the shop . |
| 30 | ‘ Even if it is a genuine invitation , circumstances would have to change before I would accept . ’ |