Example sentences of "[adj] i [modal v] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and er , it was gone eleven I would of thought , anyway he stopped and I slept like a log , got up at twenty past six , but erm , it 's a strange thing because one of those came last evening and it parked outside George 's , now I said yesterday , when Alan goes to work , it 's not long after six normally to go up to London and that |
| 2 | Oh cos I thought , sorry I should of shut up then ! |
| 3 | Opal Fruits and things like that I could of got them that but of course a great big bag of Minstrels , you could n't just let them rummage through that , so what I done I took a couple of handfuls out and put them in here |
| 4 | She used to like giving head so much I used to fucking right drop them yup slurp that was it . |
| 5 | I did all I could for that plant , but while my White Poplar in the garden went from strength to strength , sprouting new branches and hundreds of suckers that came up like a forest over all the lawn , the fern bought on that memorable day when the second deluge had fallen just faded away before my eyes . |
| 6 | I had discovered all I could for the moment . |
| 7 | Armed with the phone number of the vicar of All Saints , I determined to find out all I could about the mysterious stone . |
| 8 | My immediate concern on that first morning in Punta Arenas was to learn all I could about the ship . |
| 9 | I found out all I could about the various parties including the Fascist party . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've told you all I can about that . ’ |
| 11 | He said : ‘ I have told you all I can about the attack on you . |
| 12 | I will continue to put all I can into this game for the moment . |
| 13 | I 'll do all I can To be freed of the |
| 14 | In his letter of acceptance he wrote , ‘ I gladly accept and I shall do all I can for you , ’ and he did literally that . |
| 15 | Removing all I can with a salt bath , and using various propriety parasite treatments have had no effect , the leeches just keep coming back . |
| 16 | If I got one what was a bit tricky I used to perhaps tie him to the gate , but they got used to it . |
| 17 | Now I 'm like you , you 're like I used to be . |
| 18 | For example , when I first lived alone I used to be in a state of anxiety every time I left the house , for fear that I had forgotten something . |
| 19 | Black and blue I used to be . ’ |
| 20 | They had n't thought about that do you know , I reckon that Sister Josephine erm behind all this , she wanted that hall and she and Father used to talk about this you see they want to extend the church back and do away with the car parking area as well , oh that 's alright , but erm sort of ca n't see any point in it , I mean congregations are going down , they 're not increasing , the church is big enough for what is necessary I would of thought would n't you ? |
| 21 | I 'll do the best I can for him . |
| 22 | I wanted the freedom and the encouragement to do the best I could for myself and my family . |
| 23 | So it was all a hotchpotch , it was all and I had to do the the best I could for those who showed fish and that was the only way I could do it . |
| 24 | If it had been impossible for one reason or another to use a boat on the water I would have done the best I could with a plummet and noted what I could see from the banks . |
| 25 | I did the best I could with the five keys that would produce a sound and vowed never again to sit in a cupboard . |
| 26 | I did the best I could in a couple of hours . ’ |
| 27 | I did the best I could in the circumstances , Mr Calder , but you can hardly blame me if I find it difficult to appear besotted with your charms ! ’ |