Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may now have an inkling of what has happened to me over the last few years ; I may have lined up a few suspects , even tentatively put my finger on ‘ who done it ’ ; I may have my own private detectives working alongside the regular police , and we may have made an arrest or two , but the file has not been closed . |
| 2 | ‘ I hope I may never make an enemy of thee ! ’ |
| 3 | I 've got some catching up to do as well , but I thought I might just grab an hour , maybe late this afternoon when everything 's relatively quiet . |
| 4 | Yeah , I 'll just do an order for the stores . |
| 5 | I 'll just go an lock me door then . |
| 6 | I 'll just get an appointment just for my blood |
| 7 | Now , sir , I 'll just take an impression of your penis here There was some more budget-balancing over the question of She-She 's underwear . |
| 8 | Of course , I 'll never find an answer , because the one I love most is always the one I gaze on from the other . |
| 9 | I 'll go to church more often , or I 'll read my bible more regularly , or I 'll really make an issue about praying , it 's not , it 's not that at all . |
| 10 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 11 | I could barely boil an egg . |
| 12 | High and very far to the north I could just hear an aeroplane , only the third or fourth I had heard at night since coming to the island . |
| 13 | I wonder if I could just raise an issue on item two three D on page four referring to horse riding because there is a concern about a , a lot of walkers , that horse riding on footpaths creates problems for them erm in , in terms of chewing up the path in , in such a way that they 're difficult to walk on , people even wearing boots . |
| 14 | Yes , we 've covered various subjects er more than once , er so much so that er I would be much obliged if you would er focus on a particular instance that I could then have an opportunity to recall . |
| 15 | because I used to have when I used to go around these for breakfast I 'd always have an orange juice and my cereal and then my fried breakfast it 's the only time I 'd eat a fried breakfast . |
| 16 | I would rather have an RSPCA worker who retained the capacity to weep than one hardened to the darker necessities of the job . |
| 17 | Because we have all heard John Smith in the past say , I would rather lose an arm than lose the support of the G M B. |
| 18 | Well I would rather use an animal any time that my own child ! |
| 19 | I would even accept an increase to 35 per cent . |
| 20 | I promised to myself that I would never write an article about having a baby , never ever write that a baby was a celebration and examination of the mystery of our own being , and of course avoid the trap of believing that we were the first and only couple to have a baby . |
| 21 | G. K. Chesterton welcomed his brother 's arrival with ‘ now I shall always have an audience . ’ |
| 22 | In order to have what seems the best of Stevenson 's thought before us , I shall now develop an attitude theory of ethics , largely based on his work ( though also drawing on that of A.J. Ayer ) , in which the strictly emotivist thesis is dropped and the concept of emotive meaning gives way to one of valuational meaning . |
| 23 | Given that Callinicos ' book is difficult , and given the probability that despite the seriousness of its argument it is unlikely to be widely debated , I will firstly offer an interpretation of what I think its main themes are , and what they are not . |
| 24 | I read of tigers , rattlesnakes and circus animals , all of who have suffered at the hands of the human race , vowing I will never treat an animal in these ways . |
| 25 | I will never make an apology for increase in member 's allowances and resources to support members in training etcetera and the tools to do a good job , given the tools , give you the tools to do a good job . |
| 26 | I can hardly boil an egg . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I can only wear an outfit a couple of times , so there 's no point spending a fortune , ’ she says . |
| 28 | I can only give an undertaking and I hope that the hon. Gentleman will accept it in the spirit in which it is given . |
| 29 | But he had given patient thought to the matter , just as he had to the rest of the alien anatomy ; and he had ventured on what I can only call an abstraction of the human face . |
| 30 | And and so we certainly do n't have strong views either way as to the need for the policy in principle but I can certainly see an advantage in having a policy in the right terms . |