Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One mistress I could ignore — but he 's now on his sixth . |
| 2 | bluecollar gipsy I can see it in your eyes . |
| 3 | ( If it is addressed to myself as Parish Clerk I will see that it is displayed prominently in the village . ) |
| 4 | Erm , two er three points would I like , erm , picking up a couple of comments earlier , and coming back to a , I think if we use a cricketing analogy , a long hop I 'd like to bowl at you Chair , and you may hit it in Mr Wincup 's direction . |
| 5 | As a scientist I can not believe it — but I saw it happen with my own eyes . |
| 6 | The only concession I could not get was leave to see him alone , but it 's plain I should have got nowhere with him even so . |
| 7 | The File Manager obligingly scans the entire disk and lists all the files beginning with Q. I can see that the ones I want have been installed under D : \WINDOWS\QUOTE , and I can use the File Manager to look at them . |
| 8 | PS I would n't be so sure about the away win this week-end … |
| 9 | If you 'll be Confirmed in Faith I 'll never ask you to come to the church again . |
| 10 | Now , as far as the Catholics are concerned , I have to say I like the people very much but theirs is not a faith I could accept myself . |
| 11 | Although I was baptized into the Methodist faith I used to prefer the church service because it did n't go on so long . |
| 12 | Oh yeah , by the Shrimp I could of got pregnant ! |
| 13 | Sir , — Nine years ago I volunteered my services as a school governor , believing that the expertise I could offer would be helpful to headteacher , staff and pupils . |
| 14 | I 'd like to know more about it because having gone through it without any eventuality I 'd quite like to know what I missed ! |
| 15 | Using all the tact I can muster , I try to explain this . |
| 16 | And as I 'm putting you out on your half-day I 'll make it up to you , there will be something extra by way of a thank you in your pay packet on Friday ’ |
| 17 | The 13-goal marksman 's chances of being fit have improved since he started the treatment and his manager Ron Atkinson said : ‘ If he does make it and this machine has done the trick I 'll gladly pay out Pounds 25,000 myself to buy one . ’ |
| 18 | Also as much info I can get as to what parts of the ground non-members etc. can buy tickets for and the prices would be helpful . |
| 19 | In my own defence I can say that everyone else got it wrong too . |
| 20 | In my own defence I can say only that I went along for the ride , as it were , if you 'll forgive the expression , Mr Milton . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ And if there 's anything you want from Red Cottage I could fetch that too later on . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ We-ell , they 're forecasting heavy rain , ’ Simon pointed out , ‘ but if I had a key to the cottage I could go in and fix up some temporary weatherproofing until the roof can be properly repaired . ’ |
| 23 | I would like to think on Saturdays To Craven Cottage I will always go . |
| 24 | That 's a complicated story I ca n't really go into at the moment , but was very much to do with the Royal Policies of the 1630s . |
| 25 | After that story I dare say she felt that we could meet — for though it had not been ‘ taken from the life ’ it had , as Elizabeth 's very solid stories were apt to do , taken on life . |
| 26 | ‘ And in a fairy story I 'd tell him to get lost , ’ Eve said , laughing . |
| 27 | That 's another story I could tell you it 'd er er make your hair curl . |
| 28 | In another existence I might have emulated Capability Brown . |
| 29 | She supplies the book 's hasty conclusion after the death at Lydiard Constantine of Philip — a partial picture of one side of the Battersea Grammar School Edward : At this point the people of Abercorran House — even Jessie and Aurelius- and the dogs that stretched out in death like blessedness under the sun , and the pigeons that courted and were courted in the yard and on the roof , all suddenly retreat from me when I come to that Spring in memory ; a haze of ghostly , shimmering silver veils them ; without Philip they are as people in a story whose existence I can not prove . |
| 30 | From my country upbringing I can remember fields of blaggets less common now but I do know of it still being grown in Orkney . |