Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [adv] [verb] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I should never have extended credit to you then , and I wo n't do it again .
2 Hells bells , I should never have quit abstinence .
3 I do n't give you these names , because if I spell them out I should never need to waste money on a return ticket again .
4 I could never hope to keep pace with or understand it .
5 I 'd rather try to get work , ’ said Tess sadly .
6 I 'd just like to remind Councillor of one or two things and then spend a little bit of time talking about some of the gimmicks that the Tories have introduced over this past ten years .
7 I , I 'd just like to highlight objection number one point three motorists have not seen the .
8 I 'd also like to thank Colonel , Colonel for coming today from er Mildenhall in Lakenheath and also thanks to the Reverend for being here as well .
9 I 'd also look to trim RAM consumption by ditching things like SHARE and ANSI.SYS .
10 I 'd really like to take control of my life — give up smoking . ’
11 I 'd still like to have Dagmar . ’
12 Thank you all and goodbye and I 'd now like to thank hand over to Nicholas Hinton .
13 Well right er okay but erm supposing it was retained as it is , I 'd certainly like to see criterion one retained in the list .
14 I did not want to put anything in my mouth because if I did n't , if I ate nothing , then I would soon go to join Mama .
15 And I would again ask to have money given specifically for this you know , for this purpose .
16 Having er , been invited to attend the first ever in County Council Hearing I 'm delighted with it 's as well received as it 's had and I would just like to clarify point C which is after the relative sort of consultation with local members and the whole review of meeting er , who will be present at the review meeting ?
17 Since this has cropped up here I would just like to draw attention to it .
18 We , in the Midlands , support the role that the Health and Safety Review document puts forward , and in concluding , President , I would just like to pay tribute to my regional committee and the work that they did , in getting the review off the ground in the first place .
19 I would also like to pay tribute to chairpersons , secretaries and committee members who give many hours of service to our Institute .
20 I would also like to pay tribute to the Chairmen of the Council 's other Committees and in particular to who took over the chair of the Policy Review Committee in May 1990 .
21 I would also like to pay tribute to the Chairmen of the Council 's other Committees including Business Development , Policy Review and the Scottish Council Foundation .
22 I do n't think the link is proven and I would certainly like to see evidence to substantiate that suggestion .
23 Nevertheless we are generally satisfied that both committees , that 's the English and the Welsh committees , have done a thorough job and on behalf of my colleagues I would certainly like to pay tribute to those who served on those committees who I believe discharged their responsibilities with great professionalism in circumstances made unnecessarily difficult by ministerial dithering and delay .
24 In the profession I would much prefer to see work generated by the directors , and the casting directors taking more trouble to go round and see the actor at work , taking people on the basis of work they had already seen .
25 Sometimes it is the Had I But Known what grim secret lurked beneath the smiling exterior I would never have set foot within the door ; Sometimes the Had I But Known then what I know now , I could have saved at least three lives by revealing to the Inspector the conversation I heard through that fortuitous hole in the floor .
26 If , for example , I am engaged in reading a text on a subject in which I am well versed ( where the ideational or content schema is familiar ) , which has been written in a manner conventionally associated with writing on this subject ( where the interpersonal or formal schema is familiar ) , then I shall only need to pay attention to the linguistic signs to the extent that they key in this schematic knowledge and indicate how it is to be extended .
27 I can easily walk to do shopping and so on , but I 've got a couple of suitcases here now , and I certainly ca n't manage those . ’
28 Erm I can actually remember making ether as a practical I mean it 's something you would n't dare even think about doing now !
29 If the lunar curves in Figure 6.9 can roughly be applied to Mercury then crater erasure took place before about 4000 Ma ago , and most of the present craters , which may also have given rise to the smooth plains , were in place by about 3000 Ma ago , and little has happened on the Mercurian surface since except for the effects of tidal slow-down and interior shrinkage .
30 Similarly , the reference to the barge really refers to an account in a play of a scene which we do not and in some ways could not witness , a scene which may never have taken place in those terms .
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