Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] i [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he proposed that I should marry him , |
| 2 | I handed over my life 's savings and promised that I would give her the other nineteen and six before the year was up . |
| 3 | I pointed out that people liked to have something to sit on but promised that I 'd leave him plenty of scope for pacing , which was the way he did his thinking . |
| 4 | I doubted that I would find one in time . |
| 5 | When we talked we agreed that I should send you a copy of the Resource Book for Teachers on CALL . |
| 6 | It is also acknowledged and agreed that I will perform my functions hereunder solely for the said parties and neither correspondence relating to the dispute nor any finding or award made by me as expert shall give rise to any right in favour of any person not a party hereto and any such correspondence and finding [ or award ] will be confidential to the said parties and will not be disclosed without my prior written consent , which I will not unreasonably withhold but which may be given subject to conditions . |
| 7 | Certainly I was asked about this er well before the er E I P er and we agreed that there w Well certainly I agreed that I could see nothing wrong with that since it is a cl closed research project , and nothing will be divulged at all er publicly . |
| 8 | I realised that I could have her full attention as long as I caught her interest , and I could only do this by telling the truth , for she could no more be bothered with the niceties of drawing-room small-talk than could a fox . |
| 9 | But I believed that I could avoid them , with some help from the Vadinamian processes themselves . |
| 10 | All of these meetings required careful preparation and I was relieved when my election team agreed with my general tactics , although they added that I must make myself available for private talks with any colleague who asked to see me . |
| 11 | And having noticed that there is nothing whatever in this ‘ I think , therefore I am ’ which assures me that I say the truth , other than that I see very clearly [ je vois très clairement ] that to think it is necessary to be , I judged that I could take it as a general rule that the things which we conceive very clearly and very distinctly [ que nous concevons fort clairement et fort distinctement ] are all true … |
| 12 | One bend further on she stopped , plucked a plant and signalled that I should breathe it . |
| 13 | Some weeks later my brother and I were passing through London , and I asked if I might bring him to see her . |
| 14 | He asked if I would advise him to send for Henderson , I said ‘ No ’ , which he said relieved him . |
| 15 | He asked if I would advise him to send for Henderson . |
| 16 | I could hardly speak , I told him it was fantastic , he asked if I would do it again . |
| 17 | My first encounter with Kagan took place when Wilson telephoned me and asked if I would see him . |
| 18 | ‘ He said he would be seeing Mr Moi in Bonn the following week , and asked if I would like him to set up a meeting with the president . |
| 19 | One day one of the German officers stationed in Fontanellato , an Oberleutnant Bauer , called on me and asked if I could give him Italian lessons . |
| 20 | Anyway , she told me to bring someone so I phoned and asked if I could bring you . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I was n't too keen on two or three of the swear words , ’ he said , ‘ and I asked if I could leave them out . |
| 22 | and either pay it all in one I asked if I could pay it do so much , you know so much a year |
| 23 | I apologized for my behaviour ( you know how it is : a few drinks , a few laughs , you step out of line ) , and asked if I could buy her lunch some time . |
| 24 | I asked if I could read them . |
| 25 | A year beforehand , Chudnovsky , who was a collector from Leningrad , and a very well-known one , had been to see me and asked if I could help him . |
| 26 | Some months ago a gang of local youngsters asked if I could help them in this direction . |
| 27 | ‘ I would n't go without Brian so I asked if I could have him buried beside my parents in Scotland . |
| 28 | ‘ I prayed that I would see you again , ’ he said , ‘ so I could ask the question I should have asked five years ago . |
| 29 | It came to something like 60 hours and I decided that I could share it between two people . |
| 30 | I suspect that it started when I would read my grandmother 's Sunday School prizes and my father 's Sunday School prizes as a small boy . |