Example sentences of "[adj] i [vb mod] [verb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I would want is for you to make the journey into the burning , and then come back and report . |
| 2 | I 've had my health put right so now all I 'd like is to be rich and famous . |
| 3 | And he used to come to with his black horse and dray and I used to go to help him on a er on a Saturday morning , used to get to about perhaps nine or half past and I 'd go the rounds with him and all I used to do was to er take the peoples things that they 'd bought up the entry you see because they were all entries then . |
| 4 | So all I could do was to prance about waving flashcards and realia like a second-rate conjuror at a children 's party , and try not to glance at my watch more than once a minute . |
| 5 | There was an immediate loss of power and all I could do was to crash-land the aircraft . |
| 6 | Last night as I 'm going to sleep all I could smell was like ashtray , you know ! |
| 7 | All I can say is in the region of the foot of the bed . |
| 8 | Erm the questions you were asking just now were testing a possible implication that this policy is so weak in general , no no not weak , so general in its application that it really does n't get in the way , it 's testing that kind of hypothesis , and erm all I can say is from experience in North Yorkshire that , even without this policy since nineteen eighty , the county has been using its assertion of its need to protect the countryside generally as its policy position to stop things happening outside towns and villages and that with this policy in place we could see that a general position of the county maintained and then reinforced . |