Example sentences of "[conj] i [modal v] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And whilst I have gone to Middleton 's grave in the village of Mildenhall , I have found that I could in no way criticise his rejection of my plea that he stayed with the Pathfinders . |
| 32 | The telephone rang while I was busy explaining to Tony Crosland that I could not accept a further term of office at the Housing Corporation , since I had been appointed to the Mastership of University College , Oxford , but I had agreed to a request that I should at least stay for another year to see someone else in . |
| 33 | And apparently at speech day she was talking to s do you know she had the cheek to say to me she had the cheek to tell somebody to say that I should at least have the decency to go out with someone who 's half looking , half good looking . |
| 34 | resentment to the new children , that I should of |
| 35 | This present mayor was away on holiday at the time , he said perhaps that I should of seen that erm it would go to committee |
| 36 | I would n't of known that I 'd of done that |
| 37 | I said that I used to be partial to them when I smoked . |
| 38 | Remember that I used to be very well known for sports shots . |
| 39 | ‘ And another thing that 's changed is that I used to be wary of getting into certain types of music , for fear they would show up in my playing ; these days , though , I figure that listening to just about anything is cool . |
| 40 | For instance , I do n't want people to know that I used to be a drummer . ’ |
| 41 | I do n't seem to fed the same urge to wander that I used to . ’ |
| 42 | For instance , I do n't want people to know that I used to be a drummer . ’ |
| 43 | I used to walk along there to see these rabbits I think the name was and they , it was a barber 's shop that had got these sold all sorts of pet things and that I used to , then I used to come home that was my Saturday morning , but I always used to go in up to the news line . |
| 44 | I 'm old , I know I 'm old and I ca n't do all the things that I used to be able to do . |
| 45 | Yeah but they , Ben and this bloke Phil that I used to s be seeing , the one that yeah , that one erm have got this |
| 46 | And er now it 's accepted I suppose and young firemen joining now would n't , would n't know any different , and they 'll probably be able to manage much better than I would on a fire station . |
| 47 | I may modify my behaviour to conform to the expectations of the group , and I will do so in a much shorter time than I would in a one-to-one relationship . |
| 48 | a bomb threat on a train than I would in an aeroplane Robert . |
| 49 | PAMELA : [ aside ] I have a little tincture of jealousy too , which has made me more uneasy than I ought to be , particularly in the case of Miss Sally Godfrey and my fears of what might happen when we reach London . |
| 50 | I do n't care , Morrissey is still wonderful and I still love him as much , if not more than I used to . |
| 51 | Now , I treat athletics more as a hobby than I used to . ’ |
| 52 | I suppose it 's something to do with me being happy , being married , knowing where I am : I can see things more clearly now than I used to . |
| 53 | BELVILLE : I have had the mortification for some weeks past to come home to a very different Pamela than I used to . |
| 54 | I get to places much quicker than I used to : places like the far end of the room . |
| 55 | But if anybody has got a real problem I get more emotionally involved than I used to . |
| 56 | I still miss my favourite sister , who died over twenty years ago , but of course I think of her much less than I used to . |
| 57 | Less than I used to . |
| 58 | ‘ I ca n't see myself doing any better with Sarah and that precious boy of has than I could with Riddle . ’ |
| 59 | After all , most people do n't think much of Liverpool as a place to work and live in , though I think it 's fantastic and I live in greater style — in the wing of a large Victorian house — than I could in the South . |
| 60 | As it is , I have reservations about the application of the user interface in the Windows version , and will have to wait to see what the next version brings before I can make up my mind any more firmly than I can at present . |