Example sentences of "[subord] i [modal v] [adv] see [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So I 'll never see you again . ’ |
| 2 | As I fiddled frantically with buttons that would n't depress and a monopod that would n't telescope downwards so I could actually see what professional fingers find in the dark , I became aware of the incredulous stare of a Japanese with an even bigger lens than mine . |
| 3 | I wondered if I would ever see them again and silently said goodbye . |
| 4 | I wondered if I should ever see them again . |
| 5 | For example , although we do not have in English the grammaticalization of the levels of respect that exist in Javanese , we do have means of expressing degrees of respect , largely by choices in the use of expressions : thus ( 31 ) would generally be a more polite request than ( 30 ) : ( 30 ) I want to see you for a moment ( 31 ) I wondered if I could possibly see you for a moment So by taking at first just the grammaticalized or encoded features of context in the world 's languages , we would have both something like a " discovery procedure " for relevant functions of language , and a constraint on the relatively vacuous theorizing that often attends speculation about the " functions of speech " . |
| 6 | But , yeah cos I can never see what he 's doing to you know and I think oh standing out |
| 7 | ‘ But I doubt I 'll ever know for sure because I 'll never see her again and only by coming face to face with her will I know the truth . ’ |
| 8 | You think that because I can sometimes see what 's trivial and what 's important in art I ought to be more virtuous . |
| 9 | The , for example , where I worked I had to bale out you know in the morning about thirty pails of water , you know before I could even see my footboard . |