Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [verb] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must sit here a minute . |
| 2 | During the course of my working week I must see quite a number of society magazines . |
| 3 | " I should sit there a bit longer , " one of the policemen said . |
| 4 | But I feel I should return just a moment to the matter of my father ; for it strikes me I may have given the impression earlier that I treated him rather bluntly over his declining abilities . |
| 5 | to delegate yeah well I mean that 's this is why I think I should bring forward a supervisors course for , for , for , for |
| 6 | I have been told by fellow enthusiasts that the original 2.6 litre petrol engine was a very thirsty unit and they suggest that I should install either a diesel unit or a V6 petrol . |
| 7 | I should ask only a smile in return … ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I thought I might go upstream a bit and wash off some of this dirt , ’ she said evenly , fingering her hair distastefully . |
| 9 | ‘ I might get only an hour , or perhaps only half a game from him . |
| 10 | ‘ If I ca n't get in by asking nicely , ’ she had said , ‘ I 'll blow apart a set of doors . |
| 11 | Oh I 'll sit here a minute ! |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll spend quite a lot on , say , a Mondi jacket , but will wear it with cheaper skirts from Marks & Spencer and Principles . |
| 13 | I 'll take quite a lot more interest in this competition now , and perhaps Sebastian here will get out of bed to train before school without being called six times — he only starts running practice about ten days before a competition , you know . |
| 14 | Oh , he said , I expect in a minute the door will be flung back and I 'll be dragged off to some sort of temple arena where I 'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then I 'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl will show me the secret passage out of the place and we 'll liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure . ’ |
| 15 | No I I 'd suggest perhaps a couple of categories of non-verbal communication . |
| 16 | I 'd get quite a surprise because very s small number of men in the shop . |
| 17 | I 'd get quite a bit now |
| 18 | No I would n't splash it all out but I 'd get quite a bit cos of the twenty years . |
| 19 | In spite of his earlier suggestion that I should talk as I ate , Sir Edmund refused to listen to me until I 'd put away a plate of his favourite devilled kidneys . |
| 20 | If you happen to be serving , but I used to serve quite a lot myself . |
| 21 | Originally when I first went there I used to go twice a week . |
| 22 | Although I did go and watch the rugby , I never was a great one for , and I , I used to swim quite a lot . |
| 23 | Well , as you know , when I was a novice I used to do quite a lot of teaching , because the nuns were short-handed , and it was useful practice . |
| 24 | ‘ I used to play quite a lot of football , ’ he explains , ‘ but all I was really good at was knocking the opposition over as a last-ditch defence . ’ |
| 25 | Oh ours was like that , you know , I used to feel quite a shame |
| 26 | I used to have quite a complex about being beaten , but I met Liz after I 'd been beaten hollow all year and she still married me . ’ |
| 27 | I used to know , I used to play at tennis with Bay , the daughter and er the eldest daughter she married another chemist and he ran the place afterwards I think , then there was Jack but er I , I used to know , I used to know quite a lot of the er people on the , who kept these shops . |
| 28 | I nearly always won , as I remember ; and as we left the club or the hall I would make quite a show of hailing a taxi , offering to drop Julian off at the nearest tube . |
| 29 | I would guess quite a bit of money goes into the local economy . |
| 30 | Here one meets with what I would deem quite a drawback . |