Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb mod] [vb infin] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would have liked to have gone to Venice , where there was a faculty of languages , or Bologna , where I could have read Economics and Commerce ; but the war was on , and the expense of keeping me in a distant town was beyond the means of my parents . |
| 2 | Providence , destiny — although I would like to treat destiny with a very small " d " in my case — inevitably played their parts but nevertheless I got away with it , and my crew got away with it . |
| 3 | Colour-wise it looks a bit anaemic ; I presume its cellulose finish will darken , if you can wait that long , although I would have preferred Fender to have tinted the lacquer a little to increase the ‘ butterscotch ’ element in the colouring . |
| 4 | Faced with such rhapsodic prose I felt it would take more subtlety and sagacity than I could command to make obscurity flee before me . |
| 5 | Just as I had n't minded when asked if I would like to take care of Jeffrey Bernard for a few days while he was in Sydney to promote the play about himself , Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell , which is currently playing here . |
| 6 | After I had produced talks and features for a year or so , Jack Radford asked me one day if I would like to take charge of a music show . |
| 7 | Had I been a little less successful in catching chub or , worse , met with a complete blank , then Heaven knows if I would have continued specimen hunting . |
| 8 | If Mr Spicer 's dismissal for drunkenness last Christmas was a charade ; if he is still in fact in your employment though not as a chauffeur ; if your American mistress telephoned Mr Fairfax-Vane and lured him here ; if I should happen to fall victim to a break-in apparently arranged by Mr Fairfax-Vane in order to lay his hands on my Tunbridge Ware but actually carried out by Mr Spicer in order to bring about my death ; if my demise should leave you in possession of your father 's letters and free to publish them … |
| 9 | Of course I have n't written the review — I doubt if I should have had time , my own work takes up too much . ’ |
| 10 | No , if I 'd have cut time they would n't hear no conversation ! |
| 11 | I said yeah just started , course if I 'd have paid money off I said lived on it you see |
| 12 | I wondered if I could go to see Drifter race . ’ |
| 13 | Had to be paid , it ca n't be paid by the twenty eighth it 's er you know well if I could 've got hold of David or er , Andrew , I was gon na give Andrew a right bollocking for just pushing it in and he should 've sent it to er , Michael , Michael 's just got it shoved in front of his nose a in Edinburgh . |
| 14 | This was just as well , because I must have looked pea green , and it did n't make me feel any better to watch Olive sitting up front chatting to the pilot and navigator , obviously having the time of her life . |
| 15 | ‘ While I might have had difficulty believing you at that particular moment two years ago , it was two years ago . |