Example sentences of "[subord] i [modal v] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you could find me a garret somewhere near you , where I could live for the next three months , I could finish it , and perhaps get it Published . |
| 2 | Since then I have done something I should have done in the first place : found a gap in the rushes only ten yards downstream where I can heave into the fish without pulling them into more weed . |
| 3 | " But my mistresses go home to their husbands for Christmas , and although I could stay at the Covington-Pyms and ride out with the hunt on Boxing Day morning , and call round at the Moons on my way back to cheer up poor Marie … |
| 4 | I had problems at first , but I have had more help from your magazine than I could get from the instruction book especially with the Fair Isle necklines . |
| 5 | ‘ Which is more than I can say for the rest of this wretched world . ’ |
| 6 | which is more than I can say for the inflatable . |
| 7 | More than I can say for the other fella , Berger . |
| 8 | That is more than I can say about the Liberal Democrats , who seem to be headed for their own Westminster bunker en masse , or for Robin Cook , Clare Short , John Prescott or Chris Smith — all of whose views I would in normal times respect and follow with interest . |
| 9 | Clever research design could sort out some of the confounded variables , so I shall add to the possibilities a speculation arising from my point about habituation . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll be back from Poltown by the time you get back from Linby , so I 'll go to the bus-stop to meet you , ’ Angela promised . |
| 11 | He 'll assume that I wo n't go to the car because he 'll be waiting , so I 'll go to the left , and that 's where he 'll be waiting . |
| 12 | Now listen , I need an hour 's kip and a bath , so I 'll settle for the bath . |
| 13 | Perhaps what I 'm about to say has something to do with the answer to that question , so I 'll come to the point as briefly as possible . |
| 14 | He had me educated so I could speak for the Romanies of today — and of the future . |
| 15 | I shouted , desperately trying to turn my horse 's head so I could flee like the wind . |
| 16 | Dod dropped me in Hackney , two streets away from Stuart Street so I could call in the Chinese take-away on the way . |
| 17 | At the A227 turn-off I switched off the cassette-player so I could concentrate on the terrain . |
| 18 | I checked my watch and stood up so I could look across the Paddock . |
| 19 | I remember I had to get some photos so I could get into the swimming pool for nothing . |
| 20 | I took a step forward so I could see over the edge . |
| 21 | I call him that so I can shout down the street after him and those bastards in the Race Relations office ca n't touch me for it . ’ |
| 22 | I ca n't even wait until I 'm older so I can go to the discos like Georgina . |
| 23 | ‘ So I can turn on the gas , ’ said Apricot . |
| 24 | When I asked if I might walk through the camp and look at the castle from the other side , Cinderella looked distressed , so I said ‘ never mind ’ and made my way back to the stone stile . |
| 25 | I hope too that this beautiful countryside and this beautiful college will be conducive to good thoughts , reflections and reappraisals , and if I might say to the men I hope there are not too many of the female students floating up and down the corridors to further divert your attention . |
| 26 | If I may speak for the Law Officers of the Crown , we are scrupulous in bearing that vital principle in mind . |
| 27 | Yes , I readily accept that , er my general proposition is in er connection with the settlement pattern of York , and it is necessary clearly to have er careful regard to that existing settlement pattern , erm if I may refer to the helpful plan that has in fact been produced , I believe by the County Council , it is in fact an appendix to B two zero zero four , er this plan does actually indicate the general extent of the settlements outside the outer ring road of York . |
| 28 | My Lords , if I may revert to the proposition that a person can not consent to the theft of property from himself , it is absurd to suppose that a company consents to the theft of its own property , merely because the thief is for most purposes of the company its directing mind . |
| 29 | That 's including Chippingfield if you had seen it as we saw it when we came here you would recognise how much work has gone into building the town because I was on the the council then I was asked if I would stand for the council which was then only a parish council there was no urban district council that was n't formed for four or five years afterwards and of course , we had to fight for lights everything that , er that we needed we had to fight for because there was no lighting on Netteswell Road where our children were going to school , and there were little ones . |
| 30 | She came to me one day and asked me if I would stand for the council , which I did . |