Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] i [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Flying from London to Los Angeles I could make New York a genuine intermediate target by taking a stop-over or I could simply score the halfway mark on the total journey . |
| 2 | It was buried in the garden with all due ceremony , and all I knew or felt at the time was grief that I should never see my beloved pet again . |
| 3 | It never crossed my mind that I would ever recover from the suffering I underwent during my last days there , and especially my last hours . |
| 4 | ‘ You 're a much better actress than I 'd ever have given you credit for , Aurora . |
| 5 | ‘ Have n't I given sufficient indication that I 'll never marry her ? ’ |
| 6 | This summer , I visited the Art Materials Exhibition and , to my surprise , I learnt more from watching paintings in action than I could ever have learnt from the so-called Teach Yourself books . |
| 7 | The three of them moved thought the ship at a speed that I can hardly describe . |
| 8 | USAAF memorials have received much coverage in Fly/Past so I shall only mention a few . |
| 9 | USAAF memorials have received much coverage in Fly/Past so I shall only mention a few . |
| 10 | Well I 'll be round Saturday so I can usually manage to get to her . |
| 11 | It was only when I was in Holland that I had my first serious doubts that I might actually fail and have to marry Janice — in which case there was no way I would wish to claim custody . ’ |
| 12 | I made it a condition that I 'd only do it with an American choreographer , and my assistant is American , too . ’ |
| 13 | It is not like me to lack perception and I can only suppose that my enthusiasm overruled my common sense . |
| 14 | ‘ I am grateful for the support given to me by the London Fire Brigade and I would also like to thank the Fire Brigades Union . ’ |
| 15 | Do you know I 've served in the Army for thirty three years and I 've commanded every thing at every level in the infantry which both these gentlemen have been in , from a platoon right up now to a brig er brigade and I can honestly tell you that I have n't seen more than a couple of incidents of bullying in the whole of that time . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Why do n't you hop up on to the examination couch and I 'll just take a quick listen to baby 's heart and take your blood pressure , then afterwards I 'm sure Sister will be only too happy to show you around our labour ward and let you take a look at the facilities we have available . |
| 18 | you sit here , you sit still for a minute and eat , eat your sandwich and I 'll just put Joseph in the car oh what |
| 19 | Money was the issue , because he used to spend his money on hobbies and I 'd never know what I 'd be getting from week to week and some weeks I 'd not get anything . |
| 20 | Thanks and I 'll just outline the background to the figures that has just presented to you . |
| 21 | In the event , there was little snow and I could probably have chosen a lighter fabric-and-leather boot with a Goretex or Sympatex lining . |
| 22 | and my heart went some where else and I think erm , the , the marriage erm , the love in my marriage was definitely killed by an act which my partner did and I would fall into the crimes of passion I think because I mean to , to me he committed the deadly sin of all and that was adultery and I could never forgive him for that and I think that picks up on a lot , many issues which have been raised tonight about you have to have trust in a partnership , you have to give and take and people change and some people can accept all that but I was not willing to do so . |
| 23 | Edward and I would only have gotten in each other 's hair . ’ |
| 24 | The following day was the end of term and I shall never forget the shock when Miss Smith read the Class Examination results for I thought my name would never come . |
| 25 | He 's up by the entrance and I can hardly go in there , can I ? ’ |
| 26 | In erm Romans chapter three and verse twenty seven it says that er Jesus died for our sins and I 'd just like to leave this thought with you , that n er just like me , when I could have died the other week in that plane crash , that none of us knows how long we 've got on this life and , however long or short it is , there 's no time like the present to get right with God if you , if you are n't and the only way to do that is through Jesus . |
| 27 | ‘ They like the rush of blood but I can happily do without it . ’ |
| 28 | I do n't expect Scott and Emma will come in your car but I would just go with you if that 's okay . |
| 29 | Er the Noble Baroness is is right erm we do notice that where a consultant is in charge the difference is very great indeed , I 'm afraid I do n't have the figure but I will certainly give it to her , er but also we know that where there are er hospital discharge managers where senior nurses are bed managers , the difference is really quite considerable er and that is what I was saying in terms of managing the process . |
| 30 | I want to play as many different roles as I can possibly manage . |