Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] i [modal v] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried and I would have succeeded . |
| 2 | I grumbled because I would have to remain several days more without Pinard . |
| 3 | After my marriage I realised that I would have to use it , put it on whenever I went out . |
| 4 | When I saw the potential ability of so many of my opponents and how young so many of them were , I realised that I would have to devote more time to practice than there was in a day just to become a moderate professional . |
| 5 | But with the coming of peace , I realised that I should have to face a new , strange , ‘ normal , world — alone . |
| 6 | I descended the stairs half-naked to one of the yelling bedrooms and announced that I would have to leave . |
| 7 | I 'd like to thank and , I 'd like it minuted that I 'd like to thank , our Councillors and County Council Councillors because they are getting the reports in now . |
| 8 | My husband should really have kept him for himself , but he believed that I should try to change his luck . ’ |
| 9 | My plan assumed that I would have to work for these by actively seeking ideas . |
| 10 | I greeted the first man to approach the car in my broken French and to my surprise , he asked if I would prefer to continue the conversation in English . |
| 11 | Then she asked if I would consider returning home with someone living in to look after me . |
| 12 | I went to a meeting and they asked if I would try to get them contacts from the West , ’ said Mrs Charlton . |
| 13 | A nice government official helping to run the camp asked if I would mind staying until all the old and sick and pregnant women were flown out , and of course we were only too pleased to stay . |
| 14 | ‘ A few of them actually ASKED if I would mind having the clothes ripped off my back . |
| 15 | With that she lifted the latch , but before opening the door she turned to me and asked if I would like to go shopping with her . |
| 16 | I did n't understand what she meant by this but she smiled and asked if I would like to go to the ‘ flicks ’ the following Saturday . |
| 17 | When I was in a fit state she asked if I would like to talk to her . |
| 18 | Another time I passed a colleague in the corridor , and he asked if I 'd like to go to his wedding . |
| 19 | I showed her my book of poems , ‘ The Grimm Sisters ’ , and she asked if I 'd like to work with a choreographer on a ‘ dance piece ’ which would be a grown-up Christmas show with words and music and story , but mainly dance . |
| 20 | You just got but I 'll have to go there for about three years . |
| 21 | He said nothing for a few seconds , and I sensed that I might have unsettled this policeman . |
| 22 | Well Kate what a night I spent and I must have phoned |
| 23 | I decided that I would have to get to the Butcher 's office first or at least early on in the queue so that I would be barefoot for as short a time as possible . |
| 24 | He really could n't help himself , and I ended up having to do lots of steady canter work on and on until he settled before I could start to work on more interesting things . |
| 25 | I felt that I should have talked about Habeas Corpus , intellectual liberty and social security . |
| 26 | This distrust of the social scientist is so deeply ingrained that when I was reading anthropology as an undergraduate and I was asked by my colleagues what subject I was reading , I knew that I would have to prevaricate or face problems . |
| 27 | I now knew that I would have to put the wheelbarrow back on the road next morning , despite a relative abundance of settlements . |
| 28 | I immediately knew that I would have to write about the whole experience , and that what I would write would be illuminated with sentimentality . |
| 29 | I knew that I should have to make a decision . |
| 30 | I was sorry about the kites , and I knew that I 'd have to give up flying them for good to keep the act looking realistic , but it was worth it . |