Example sentences of "[art] [adj] i [modal v] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In the long-run I 'd like to be looked on as a composer rather than a stick player . |
| 2 | and he said well it was the least I could do under the circumstance . |
| 3 | If the worst comes to the worst I can do without that . |
| 4 | It 's relevant because at a time when I lived through the means test the one that , the real one , er then that would have been a very serious point because you could switch and turn and twist the means test in such a way that people would be continually at a disadvantage and the nearest I can think of what the effect of that was , living in a very working town , a very industrial working town and it was nothing like as bad as the one in London more recently , was the homelessness of cardboard boxes cities in London . |
| 5 | Say you 're the nearest I can find in the book , Filton I should try . |
| 6 | I think that is the nearest I could get to the orange . |
| 7 | Of her forty-one Landseers , his group portrait ‘ Windsor Castle in modern times ’ and ‘ Isaac Van Amburgh and his animals ’ are the two I would pick for my imaginary show . |
| 8 | I might fool the fans , but the best I can hope for this season must be second from bottom and the third preliminary round of the FA Cup . |
| 9 | The best I can hope for is to be dragged home and given stuff to make me manageable . |
| 10 | I do n't claim any great originality or depth , but it is the best I can do at the moment . |
| 11 | The best I can do as a manager is a combination of threatening , cajoling and being nice to everyone who can help to give my act the best possible shot . |
| 12 | My husband must have been unhappy , that 's the best I can say for him . ’ |
| 13 | Do n't look at me like that , it was the best I could do on the spur of the moment . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , it was the best I could do at short notice . ’ |
| 15 | It was a flimsy pretext and might not get me anywhere , but it was the best I could do at such short notice . |
| 16 | My studies were n't going so well ; a 2.2 was probably the best I could hope for . |
| 17 | " How pretty , " was the best I could manage in my present mood . |
| 18 | Here , the best I could get for you is evens , but with another fiver collected for you from me mates , and the prize for winning , you 'll go home with fifty pounds in your pocket . |
| 19 | About the best I could get off them . |
| 20 | I thought my eyes must be starting out of my head , too , but there was little I could do ; I was trying the best I could to think of something distracting to say to Eric . |
| 21 | It 's the last I 'll see of the outside for a long time . ’ |
| 22 | In a split-second I would build on this particle of noise and construct an idea of the kind of world that could produce such a phenomenon . |