Example sentences of "but i [modal v] [verb] [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I would prefer them to stay on land . |
| 2 | But I would advise you to do so . |
| 3 | ‘ Five years , ’ ( Kenneth 's back in deep-freeze ) , ‘ but I would expect you to do better . ’ |
| 4 | We could take this illustration too far — but I would like you to look upon yourselves as conductors , setting the tempo of the class , listening and looking for every discordant note — and for every good one — helping by encouragement — and asking questions , for instance " Are you working as hard as you could ? " |
| 5 | ‘ But I would like you to tell me how I 'm meant to get away from this house , if I want to go out . |
| 6 | ‘ Your Grace , I ask your indulgence but I would like us to perform a small mummer 's play , a useful introduction to what we are about to declare . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ But I would ask you to remember that the roads are still blocked , and the nearest hospital is miles away . |
| 8 | I appreciate that you might recently have sent information on your sponsorship opportunities to the Advisory Service on the old-style pink forms but I would ask you to provide the information again on the new form . |
| 9 | We commonly think of the illness as the symptoms but I would ask you to expand your view of disease to take into consideration the individual 's susceptibility because , as we have just seen , it is essential to the process of producing an illness that he be susceptible to it . |
| 10 | But I would have nothing to tell him , nothing to show him . |
| 11 | Er I do n't I think as it goes on y you do start and get that anger that anger so bad , but erm But I 'll leave you to get on Doctor . |
| 12 | ‘ I must go on with the post , but I 'll send somebody to help you as soon as I can . |
| 13 | She might 'ave 'ad carnal relations and 'im too I should n't wonder — but I 'll thank 'im to leave my relations out of it ! |
| 14 | But I shall do nothing to aid them . |
| 15 | If he has to marry Janice , that 's his misfortune , but I shall force him to see that if he really loves Kirsty he wo n't force her to share his fate . |
| 16 | Certainly , but I should hate you to forget that he has scored more runs in Test cricket than any other Englishman . |
| 17 | Sarcasm does not become you , dear readers , but I will permit it to enter these columns on just this one occasion . |
| 18 | ‘ It must seem impossible for you to believe that in a civilized society so abhorrent a practice as the enslaving of one person by another still continues , but I will ask you to try and imagine what it must be like . |
| 19 | But I 'd advise you to get some rest yourself . |
| 20 | I will observe , Chairman , that there are reasonable and honourable and relatively well meaning people who truly believe that they have a natural right to hunt down foxes with dogs indeed to call the dogs hounds and believe that nobody has the right to interfere with their pleasures er , i in press they would no doubt speak of the right of free born Englishmen to do what they like but I 'd like them to consider Chairman , views of what it is right and proper for human beings to do have changed , as readers of John 's diaries will recall , barely three hundred years ago , he saw a woman being burned to death er in London for murdering her husband and people watched and no doubt thought that it was the right of free born Englishmen to enjoy the spectacle . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm not making any conditions , I 've already changed my will , but I 'd like you to do one thing for me . |
| 22 | I 'm not going to go through the erm , passage at the bottom , but I 'd like you to have a go at it and will go over it on Friday . |
| 23 | No , but I 'd like you to get your violin out . |
| 24 | But I 'd like you to try and calculate it . |
| 25 | But I 'd like it to have the company address so that people can follow u can follow up our references without us having to give them the address . |
| 26 | Thank you for printing my latter ( Chinese Aggression NI 171 ) , but I must ask you to publish the following correction : Claire Culhane , Quang Ngai , South Vietnam , should read : Claire Culhane , Vancouver . |
| 27 | ‘ Forgive me , but I must ask you to leave any weapons here , in the outer office . ’ |
| 28 | But I must ask you to stop washing your hands in the Holy water , and please , please , do not refer to me as Mother Shapiro . ’ |
| 29 | You 've been very good , and I wish I could explain things , but I must ask you to accept that I ca n't . |