Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I should rather keep company with Mrs Frere . |
| 2 | ‘ Having obtained mama 's permission , I should forthwith change places with Joan — and none , I dare say , would notice the difference ! ’ |
| 3 | They have white filters , and I am concerned lest in this poor light I should mistakenly set fire to the wrong end . |
| 4 | I think he hoped I might eventually add distinction to the family name , of which he was intensely proud , and his initial interest in me also developed into affection . |
| 5 | Finally Mr Mayor I might just take issue with councillor . |
| 6 | I might even give money to The Campaign for Heavier Helmets today . |
| 7 | ‘ So you did , and in that case , if you 're a very good girl , I might yet make love to you . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll even shake paws for a biscuit , ’ Wayne had said . |
| 9 | When I find a guitar I like I 'll just buy multiples of that exact one ! |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | Okay , I 'll just put Bernard in a minute . |
| 12 | Would you hold on a moment I 'll just get Margaret to the phone cos she really deals with the bookings hold on a second ! |
| 13 | ‘ Put it like this : if you ever leave me I 'll probably commit hara-kiri with a blunt penknife . ’ |
| 14 | I 'll probably get rheumatism in my shoulder and nobody to blame but myself . |
| 15 | I 'll gladly accept responsibility for this single mistake , although the essence of the paragraph was not lost because of it . |
| 16 | She said : ‘ I 'll always find loads of material on High Row . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 'll always have memories of her , of course , but she 's in the past now . |
| 18 | At the same time yes I I 'll happily give way to the honourable gentleman . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'll never set foot in this bloody flat again . ’ |
| 20 | Or I 'll never eat dim-sum with you again . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 'll never understand men like Steiner . |
| 22 | I 'll now turn colleagues to the Section Secretary 's Report Mick Apex Partnership , pages twenty nine to thirty four . |
| 23 | Keegan described the player he is chasing as being the right age and pedigree and insisted : I 'll only bring people in who are better than what I 've got . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , I 'll certainly have lunch with you . |
| 25 | I could easily write paragraphs in tender praise of that young girl 's pouting lower lip , but the end result would be to make her appear ludicrously deformed . |
| 26 | I am afraid I could only manage part of the meal and I cut out the second and third courses completely , and only had gravy and vegetables for the third , but most people at my table went right through the menu ! |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | When I tried embroidery I was ashamed that I could only produce ugliness from the beautiful silks . |
| 29 | She emphasised that I could only share rooms with someone Tata would have considered ‘ acceptable ’ . |
| 30 | For I knew there were English-speaking visitors in Geneva if I could only establish communication with them ; they might be induced to take up my cause . |