Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb mod] [vb infin] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I decided to abandon my earlier plan of just walking around until dawn and instead to try and find somewhere where I could get some sleep . |
| 2 | William Bowles , ( 1705–1780 ) an Irishman who became superintendent of mines in Spain , was dismayed by the lack of unusual plants in the area and wrote to Peter Collinson from Bilbao in 1733 asking for packets of seeds and bulbous plants and continued : ‘ There is a Miller 's Dictionary in Town , so I would take some pains to give the Spaniards a taste … you know what best to send ’ . |
| 3 | I think they 'd get some good material from us , so I 'll add some match reports and humourous stuff for them to do with as they will . |
| 4 | ‘ So I 'll buy some windowboxes , ’ she declared stoutly . |
| 5 | ‘ I merely shut you up so I could get some sleep ! ’ |
| 6 | You think I 'm trying to get you into bed so I can have some sort of hold over you . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've got another hour before I 'm on , get the cover back on the engine so I can get some sleep . ’ |
| 8 | It seems to be time to get dinner , so I will leave some space for Grandad . |
| 9 | I wondered as I thought of secrets if I might find some release in telling Lili the thing that festered in my soul , and I asked her if she would listen . |
| 10 | I wonder if I may offer some thoughts on this theme as I reflect on the situation facing Catholic Christians in our Church today . |
| 11 | One of them asked if I would like some beetroot . |
| 12 | ' I 'll go and see if I can arrange some transport , ’ said Tuppe . |
| 13 | We did if I can give some background we did actually target er twelve thousand , five hundred mailer shots for this meeting this evening I 'm not sure what the people here are representing percentage for that and we also targeted over about a hundred organisations with mailing shots telling people the meetings on this evening . |
| 14 | I 'm er I 'm gon na erm , I might see if I can record some conversation on a bus , but I do n't know . |
| 15 | And if Oliver wants to see me — which might be a good idea if I can talk some sense into him — then I 'll only do so if I 've cleared it with Stuart first . |
| 16 | I think about it for a bit , then I ask her if I can afford some sandwiches . |
| 17 | Erm , but I I will see if I can find some information , it maybe that I , yes , you want to comment . |
| 18 | I 'll have to see if I can get some banana skins put on the stairs . |
| 19 | See if I can get some money out of them . |
| 20 | Well I 'll see if I can get some candles that colour . |
| 21 | Lucille was watching me to see if I 'd produce some reaction . |
| 22 | I got in touch with the linguists in the University and the College of Education , and was asked if I could do some teaching in March ( March seeming a long way away , I agreed ) . |
| 23 | Afterwards , George asked me to come down and see if I could talk some sense into you . |
| 24 | De Villiers grinned disarmingly. ‘ 'T WOULD not be so bad if I could get some work done so I could visit her now and then , but there 's little chance of that with the Bishop running to the Queen every five minutes . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It was n't exactly what I had in mind when I asked the council if I could donate some money for a seat in the park ’ |
| 26 | And everybody , I says marvellous cos I can have some time off , , it 's not fair . |