Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [adv] [adv] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I should very much like a change of underclothes at least , ’ I said . |
| 2 | I should very much like the opportunity to discuss with the hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends , and other colleagues from Northern Ireland , how we can introduce a strategy for promoting inward investment over a longer time scale than that hitherto adopted . |
| 3 | And I was very sad to face the fact that , having hoped for four years , I might now never have a second child . |
| 4 | I studied all over again those marvellous descriptions and illustrations , and you can perhaps understand my growing excitement at the notion that I might now actually undertake a motoring trip myself around that same part of the country . |
| 5 | I 'll bloody well call the Belgian Embassy ! ’ |
| 6 | Nowadays I keep huge lists of every person , organisation and publication connected with birds , so I hope I 'll never again have the problems I had finding that owl . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll damned well buy a book and learn the art . |
| 8 | Erm , I think since we 've got some new people here , I 'll , I 'll perhaps just say a little bit about the group shall I , just to explain how we operate and erm and also how this meeting is going to operate erm . |
| 9 | My ankles were like tree trunks and I could just about reach the model because I was so big . |
| 10 | I told Dana I could no longer bear the atmosphere of the city , the right-wing bullies , the Falangists , the deadening work of teaching mostly bored and resentful students . |
| 11 | I could no longer distinguish the house , and even the boat-house , much nearer , was lost in the shadows . |
| 12 | I was now so thin , so tubular that I could no longer wear a belt . |
| 13 | I could no longer ignore the differences between myself and my companions , and I could no longer lie about those differences , but kept quiet instead , withdrawing further into myself . |
| 14 | There came a day shortly afterwards when I could no longer ignore the fact that he was losing his mind . |
| 15 | I found that I could no longer hear the boat 's engine . |
| 16 | When I looked back I could no longer see the clearing . |
| 17 | ‘ I was so cold I could only just press the stop button . |
| 18 | I could never quite get a picture of her from Elizabeth . |
| 19 | ‘ I could never never love a man who habitually carried a torch . |
| 20 | I could still just hear the aeroplane . |
| 21 | For example , if I had all the money in the world I could quite easily buy a hundred Ferraris if I wished . |
| 22 | I 'd probably only fail the test anyway . ’ ) |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd probably only develop a fetish for coprophagy . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I 'd rather just take the gear and give them nothing ’ pretends Richard , smiling . |
| 25 | I 'd much rather have a plain name I know what they 're talking about then . |
| 26 | I 'd much rather see a bright young woman around the place , than some of the desiccated fuddy-duddy men we meet . ’ |
| 27 | So I 'd much rather seem a bit weak with Mrs Joe than shout at her , or hurt her , or hit her . |
| 28 | On temporarily sober reflection , I think I 'd better just stay the way I am , and settle for the occasional bursts of adulation down the pub . |
| 29 | Emil , laying tablecloths , said that wine alone was included in the fare , all other cocktails having to be paid for , and perhaps I 'd better just serve the wine ; he and Oliver and Cathy would do the rest . |
| 30 | And I I would simply draw attention to paragraph two of that report er in the second last sentence in the paragraph it says Well I 'd better actually read the er the whole paragraph . |