Example sentences of "[subord] i [modal v] [verb] they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There have been quite a few happenings since then , but my fingers are getting tired , so I 'll save them for another article . |
| 2 | Feeling slightly vexed I decided that all those readers too lazy to write in will be receiving personal visits , so I can introduce them to my favourite topic : ‘ Pain , and how ( and where ! ) to inflict it ’ . |
| 3 | If I can give them to him , then perhaps he will leave you out of all this . |
| 4 | Now if I can put them in here , it 'll stop these falling over , providing they do n't get squashed with them |
| 5 | Let's see if they 're go in this I wonder if I can balance them on top of the on top of the potatoes . |
| 6 | Takes a dozen a year off me if I can find them for him . |
| 7 | I will erm , I tell you what , I 'll phone the publishers this morning and see if I can get them to , to er , I need to phone them anyway . |
| 8 | He hums and haws for a bit then he says he 'll put them in his car and ask if I can keep them at Combe Court . |
| 9 | It would be more convenient for me if I could collect them on Friday 10 May in the afternoon , say at 3.30 p.m. or later rather than at 11.30 a.m . |
| 10 | Some months ago a gang of local youngsters asked if I could help them in this direction . |
| 11 | I wonder if I could get them through the education . |
| 12 | I 've only done seven Well there 's twenty tapes and I 've got ta do as many as I can , I have n't done half of them yet , but if I could have them over the weekend I 'd be able to do loads more cos I 'm working on Saturday , I 'm going out Saturday , I think |
| 13 | I prefer to have fruit really cos I can eat them with rolls . |
| 14 | it does n't matter because I can put them in the sponge |
| 15 | Dr Kent , I do n't know whether I should ask them at all . |
| 16 | Most of my occasional tests of 500 GP bikes end before I would like them to , simply because my arms can no longer resist the braking g-forces and I 'm likely to get flipped off . |
| 17 | I do n't know whether you 'll think I 'm boasting but that is n't the case , but I never ever regretted it and it a great deal of respect for me , you know and I could see that and did appreciate it and I know the people appreciated it just the same and erm it 's gone on from then till now but about , I retired in seventy-three , I was sixty-five and I said I 'd only do what anybody wanted for me , cos they had me in for the tax and I never ever heard twenty-one I think it was or thirty-one in come and I 'd go before I could satisfy them at Walsall but er I 'd got , not got enough money to be taxed in the bank , which was true . |
| 18 | By now it had become clear that the way to approach the show would be to do the linking material as near to Joyce 's as I could , but to do the sketches very much more as I would approach them as an actress . |
| 19 | I had only pretended I did n't know , preferring to see things as I would like them to be , rather than as they were , imprisoning myself in a ramshackle edifice of lies because I could n't bear to knock it down and start again , shivering and alone in a great expanse of sand . |
| 20 | As soon as I can do them in my own accent , I 'll be back ’ . |