Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] i [modal v] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought , I I well , I do n't envisage anything but I mean I would of thought that kids could fill it in in pencil and then we do the same as we did before a and and that the staff in some way put in their own . |
| 2 | I did n't know , I mean I would of said say something when you were chatting to him . |
| 3 | no , they have got , I mean I would of finished it if I did n't have to mess around with that car |
| 4 | ‘ I mean I used to . |
| 5 | No , it 's it 's erm it 's somebody who , all they do is write your answers for you but dictated I m if you 've ever been an em especially I mean I used to be I usually end up doing the amanuensing for courses that I 've taught on students on my paper . |
| 6 | I mean I used to , I can chart the American way you see cos but the American way is different to the British way cos we just count number one to eight but with an American they go one one , one two , one three , one four , one five , one six and then they come this way . |
| 7 | I did n't know , I mean I could of spoken to . |
| 8 | I mean I could of gone out |
| 9 | Yeah If you could hear what she say it 'd make a difference I expect I 'd of gone for another vowel there , it you 'd gone for E it of been |
| 10 | Late night I was in bed by twenty past ten , I was in bed and I say I must of been asleep by half past , |
| 11 | I , I said I know I would of had the mini for nothing |
| 12 | I know I ought to be different , but there it is . |
| 13 | I know I could of there was n't enough words . |
| 14 | Should of , I know I should of done ! |
| 15 | I figured I ought to be the person to make her grow , but I just did n't know how . |
| 16 | I remember I used to be a horror . ’ |
| 17 | I guess I ought to be more honest about this because my daughter wrote me after her mother 's funeral and said she 'd guessed what had happened anyway . |
| 18 | Well I saw this present I thought I could find it sort of erm well I suppose I would off everywhere . |
| 19 | ‘ I suppose I ought to . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Thanks , although I suppose I ought to be thankful it was n't a kiwi you likened me to . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I suppose I ought to be making tracks as well , ’ said the classics don . |
| 22 | I suppose I must at least be civil to the Danish envoys , and offer them some entertainment . |
| 23 | and I suppose I should of gone off the Thursday night |
| 24 | But I suppose I should of got a couple of quid of |
| 25 | I feel I ought to be nice to them wherever possible . |
| 26 | That 's in fact what I feel I ought to , since nothing of mine could ad to the fire and force and beauy that 's here . |
| 27 | ‘ I feel I ought to be making it . ’ |
| 28 | I feel I shall at last be in the hands of someone who will bring me back to health , to life . |
| 29 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 30 | He hit me in the face with the gun ; an inefficient , glancing blow with more chaotic anger than directed malice behind it ; I fell down , correspondingly , more because I felt I ought to than because I was actually knocked out . |