Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may depend if an opportunity should occur I will not fail to send a letter and I have to request in a [ letter torn ] fervor that you will post a letter to me at least once a week commencing from Monday next , with all particulars respecting your health etc etc directing them P. Office Launceston until called for , and when I again reach this place I will write immediately . |
| 2 | Except if your coming may release me from the necessity ever to speak to that old hag again ! |
| 3 | BELVILLE : [ aside ] That such a girl as this , cottage-born , who owes everything to my family and has an absolute dependence upon my pleasure should find me resistible . |
| 4 | As soon as I got out of the house , I was told by our neighbours where my father was hiding , but I realized that if I went to speak to him , some SS soldier might follow me and arrest him . |
| 5 | So for the meanwhile I continued with my ritualised observances , obsessively counting the number of steps it took me to walk to any given location , carefully avoiding the cracks in the pavement for fear that the bears of the id might get me , and attending to my bodily functions with the pure metrical devotion of a sadhu . |
| 6 | I knew my whispering 'd comfort me , and it did . |
| 7 | Skipper Kim Barnett tells me : ‘ There was a time when the opposition used to like me out of the way quickly because I had a reputation for getting after the bowling . |
| 8 | THIS PREDICTION used to send me into raptures of anticipation . |
| 9 | I 'm a cyclist ; four weeks of tramping with a rucsac would crease me . |
| 10 | ‘ Do you think Tess would want me to try and find her ? ’ |
| 11 | The tide had turned , and the ebb would help me downstream . |
| 12 | I decided that further thinking would get me nowhere . |
| 13 | For example , if the figure was a line diagram of a room with four windows set at different heights , the programme would ask me whether a line of sight from the far corner of the room would enable me to see a particular point outside the window nearest to me , a point that shifted on the screen at speed . |
| 14 | Gyggle would store me in a spare room of the hospital and keep me under twenty-four-hour observation while I was unconscious . |
| 15 | Our enemy would guess I was here if he saw you coming out with food , or with important news . |
| 16 | But if Eliot in the poem has adopted the personality of a fertility god , this god is a peculiarly Prufrockian one in the sense that for all ‘ The constant flame shall keep me warm , ’ he remains not simply a minor divinity , neither being nor meant to be Prince Hamlet , but also , for all the lovers ' attentions , an impotent ghost , ‘ A bloodless shade among the shades/ Doing no good , but not much harm ’ . |
| 17 | Something about the back of a man 's neck would remind me of him . |
| 18 | I was reluctant to kiss my mother , afraid that somehow her weakness and unhappiness would infect me . |
| 19 | There 's only one card will get me down . |
| 20 | Do you think Mummy will say I have to wear the same dress ? |
| 21 | sh and she said that that shampoo will last me approximately three to four months . |
| 22 | ‘ A fast car will take me back for a drink with the cast afterwards , but if they have n't got it right yet , they never will . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ We 're two up in the Texaco and nothing less than a 5-0 whitewash will satisfy me . |
| 24 | They taught me what I still believe ( and no amount of misogyny or gynophobia or general bad behaviour on either side can shift me ) that though there is much that is different for lesbians and gay men , there is also much that is common . |
| 25 | He asked , ‘ Are my books and written papers safe ? ’ , and , being answered that they were , his reply was ‘ Then it matters not , for no other loss can trouble me . ’ |
| 26 | Do n't say anything cos my mum 'll kill me . |
| 27 | Well that 's partly why , cos if I do n't wear them , mum 'll kill me ! |
| 28 | There is the thought that this story might fulfil me as nothing ever has done in all my life previous to this . |
| 29 | Just that bit 'll do me . |
| 30 | My mum might get me one of those . |