Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [subord] i [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was as good an advertisement for vegetables as I 'd ever come across . |
| 2 | I well remember that night , as I tossed and turned , unable to sleep ; for try as I could , that length of wall refused to fit into my jigsaw . |
| 3 | Because they , they they 'd got cellars in that cottage so that the cellars became the ar armoury and there was erm ammunition and everything in there and the back of there , which was the garden , we could use as , as parade area so it was it was very central and that 's where we finished up as headquarters for I 'll say D Company , for Bloxwich . |
| 4 | I 'd like erm I 'd like it for Friday if I could could you tell her cos I want it to erm go out on Friday . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll have little chance of forgetting all about Knockglen considering I 'll be coming home every night , ’ said Benny glumly . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But before I clap eyes on his miserable face , I intend to down as many cups of sack as I can ! |
| 8 | While Deutsche Bundespost Telekom views its joint venture with France Telecom , Eunetcom , as the ‘ foundation for our world activity , we think it is necessary to have a partner from the US and from the Pacific Basin , ’ said Dieter Gallist , a member of the board of management for Telekom at the Networked Economy Conference in Paris : ‘ We are in the middle of discussions so I wo n't say any more , however , ’ he added ; Gallist added later that Bundespost Telekom is also ‘ looking strongly in the direction of software alliances . ’ |
| 9 | It was a couple of hours before I could get back to Eleanor Darcy . |
| 10 | I 'm not quite sure , I think most organizations have a certain amount of of sum of money if I can remember from the workshops . |
| 11 | I 'd save lots of money as I would n't have to pay for digs . |
| 12 | And why I sit here , husbandless , dependent upon social security supplemented by such pitiful amounts of money as I can wring out of the national press , and Bernard genuflects once more , fled back to his baptismal church , terrified by the very notion of living outside it . |
| 13 | We were in opposite camps , and he could no more appreciate my line of reasoning than I could see his point of view , and finally we parted . |
| 14 | I reckon it 's gon na be a , a couple of months before I can put any carpet or anything in . |
| 15 | Every moment I was in a fever of anxiety lest I should be missing , by so much as a second , the vital news I both longed for and dreaded . |
| 16 | I do n't eat breakfast , just a cup of tea and a bit of toast if I can spare it . |
| 17 | End of February , March , April , God it 's nearly the end of May before I can start playing again |
| 18 | Well I 'll just see the first part of Eastenders if I can cos I 've seen the second part . |
| 19 | The various pros and cons have been discussed and highlighted in the Journal over the last couple of years so I will not repeat them , although printing costs of the vouchers must be very high compared with a ‘ one off card ’ . |
| 20 | took me a lot of years before I could and I was so pleased when once I was able to say to you I 've Ben had been in the shop and we 'd had a chat had n't we ? |
| 21 | ‘ It will take me a couple of days before I can get organised , ’ he said . |
| 22 | I 've got to have some new official piece of evidence before I can go in and start interrogating those old sods . |
| 23 | A couple of questions if I may please Mr Sexton . |
| 24 | Chairman I do have a couple of questions , I do have a couple of questions if I may . |
| 25 | I would n't give him the time of day if I could help it . |
| 26 | However , when I asked the King of Lilliput if I could visit Blefuscu , he agreed , but very coldly . |
| 27 | For another thing , the region is one of the edge of things if I may so put it and that 's why I 'm down here I mean as , as I know when we 're up there we 're at the centre of things , but lots of people do n't |
| 28 | ‘ Anyway , ’ he went on , trying to find excuses for himself , ‘ I reckon I always had some sort of imminence because I 'd feel a hunch rolling up inside me like a breaker on the ocean and I 'd just know what was going to win . |
| 29 | But I can not take it out of store because I would be breaking the law effectively if I did . |
| 30 | The thing that , you see I was going to send off for a pair of gloves cos I ca n't find my thermal , but when I looked on and saw all the bits and bobs of paper that come , there was n't erm , little slip you get with a pound off , for postage and packing , which I 've been getting recently have n't you ? for erm |