Example sentences of "but i [modal v] [vb infin] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I would prefer them to stay on land . |
| 2 | It 's my old sea-chest they want , but I 'll show them ! |
| 3 | ‘ But I 'll show them . |
| 4 | I wo n't be able to tell them that I 've been seeing you since November , but I 'll tell them . " |
| 5 | Erm , not really , but I 'll take them back actually yes . |
| 6 | " I do n't know yet , but I 'll find them . " |
| 7 | But I 'll find them , and you wo n't have any bother . |
| 8 | I hope , Madam Deputy Speaker , that my comments were not out of order or tasteless , but I shall rephrase them . |
| 9 | ‘ I expect another visit this night , ’ he reported to General Cope , ‘ but I shall give them the warmest reception my weak party can afford . ’ |
| 10 | The answer is , if they had a particular general part of the study , but I shall stick them on the wall , er , with Blue Tac , but I shall stick the Blue Tac on the so I shall just make that point , so that if some particular person whose just taken it on , do n't ask about the use of Blue Tac in his room . |
| 11 | The figures that I am about to present to the House will embarrass the Leader of the House , but I shall get them on the record none the less . |
| 12 | ‘ You would n't know to look at me now , ’ she 'd say , ‘ but I could hold them spellbound , the things I could do on that bike in a crash helmet and a pair of tights and a stars and stripes swimsuit . ’ |
| 13 | But I could do them in the smaller size . ’ |
| 14 | But I could have them send up a tray if you 'd rather stay in bed . ’ |
| 15 | Of course I could n't see either of them , but I could hear them , and I imagined the rifleman peering into the ditch . |
| 16 | Since we are only concerned with a point of law , the precise facts do not matter but I should indicate them briefly to show the limited scope of this decision . |
| 17 | As Branch Manager Ian Davies said ( speaking as a confirming bachelor ) ‘ five good men have bitten the dust ; normally men of sound judgement but I will forgive them this one mistake ! ’ |
| 18 | But I will defeat them ! |
| 19 | Does n't look like much , but I can print them up for you . |
| 20 | I 'm afraid I do n't have them on me , but I can bring them tomorrow . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ But I can assure them our umpires will be quite even-handed about checking all bowlers . ’ |
| 22 | I do not of course condone those riots , but I can understand them . |
| 23 | ‘ But I can understand them . |
| 24 | Well I must admit , I have , I mean I do n't do well I used to make quite nice cakes , since I 've had this new cooker mine wo n't ri I mean they rise , there 's no doubt about that , they rise , but I can take them out , put them on a cooling rack and watch them deflate ! |
| 25 | Yeah , they would be er erm , I think they would , would be more like er , see of course when we came back here to Stoke er I mean that severed relations with them so to speak apart from like say letters , they did use , used to write I remember getting letters and we 'd send letters , perhaps only twice a year , but I can remember them mentioning . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't like to tell people , ’ she laughs , ‘ but I can recognise them by their smell . |
| 27 | And they 'd come up and wait them but I 'd make them a cup of coffee or a cup of cocoa or something like that , there were n't coffee then cos we could n't afford coffee we used to have cocoa or make them a mug of tea . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But I 'd hump them into the sitting room . |
| 30 | I may tell lies all my life if it 's expedient but I must know them for what they are and I must never tell them to myself . |