Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | doing things like that but I I I I believe quite strongly what Angela 's saying er , if you came to me and presented something ba ba , a total er , conviction that it might be in a sense damaging er the er the the the concept people have of your subject , or might have I would listen very carefully to that , and I also ta , I remember Gordon saying some time ago and whilst Gordon drove me crackers he talked about the government saying you 've got ta do this , you 've go and he said there are things that we must believe in as educationalists ourselves , and professionalists |
| 2 | So we continue travelling hopefully , traversing the geography , and absorbing impressions that may get me out of the pictorial routine that all artists are prone to . |
| 3 | I had the radio on low , in case they interrupted the broadcast with any bulletins that might lead me to the new Night Mayor . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll trade you your ‘ binos ’ for information that might lead me to the whereabouts of Dr Charity Marlowe . ’ |
| 5 | If knowledge was to be imparted that might threaten me , then it was time to show a clean pair of heels and , perhaps , indulge in some honest lechery . ) |
| 6 | This is the one thing that might make me lose my temper . |
| 7 | By middle age I had discovered that everything I wanted to do , every attitude I announced , every desire I expressed , anything that might give me joy appeared to contradict the wishes of someone else . |
| 8 | Thank you for the little thoughts of avoiding the things that might upset me . |
| 9 | Could you advise me and recommend any books that might help me . |
| 10 | If he 's married to my daughter that 'll kick-start me right back in the business , but if you wo n't play your part in all of this then I 'm just as happy to bring him down … ’ |
| 11 | Something that 'll keep me going in photography anyway . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , I thought if I do n't get these exams , I wo n't get a job , because that 's what people rubbed into us , and then I thought , well , Christ , if I went down town now and had a look , I bet there 's a dozen jobs that 'd suit me . |
| 13 | You 're letting me run around like a headless fucking chicken while you 've got the one piece of information that could lead me straight to her ! ’ |
| 14 | Is there any treatment that could help me ? |
| 15 | he says , look er , he says , cos I for somebody he said if I could , if he knew somebody that could take me down he says I would leave the mini for ya |
| 16 | I wondered whether there was anything in the teaching of Tai-Fing that could get me through the next half an hour . |
| 17 | ‘ Christ that used to give me the shits , ’ said the New Zealander . |
| 18 | He smiles : ‘ I 've grown up a lot and I 'm now enjoying important fights that used to fill me with nerves . |
| 19 | I 've lost whatever it was that used to draw me there like a magnet . ’ |
| 20 | I avoid so many of the things that used to cause me stress before . |
| 21 | On the end of this walk that used to bother me , cos it used to be going till four and five in the mo you know in the morning . |
| 22 | And those growths that used to frighten me , the moulds and fungi . |
| 23 | But in the final analysis , the thing that used to make me happy was making me miserable , so I just had to get out . ’ |
| 24 | That used to make me feel good , but it do n't make me feel good now . |
| 25 | I even got a job cleaning for £26 a fortnight and he spent that too , that used to make me feel dead small . |
| 26 | From the bold opening words , in which Christian appears with his Bible in his hand and his great burden on his back , crying , ‘ What shall I do ’ , readers of all denominations and cultures have been entranced by the story right through to the end , when Mr Valiant-for-Truth gives his sword ‘ to him that shall succeed me … and as he went , he said , ‘ Death where is thy sting ? ’ and as he went down deeper , he said , ‘ Grave where is thy victory ? ’ |
| 27 | I afterwards met Mr Blair at the Congress , and observing his deep solicitude for Kildalton , I admitted the claims which its neglected state had upon my faith and affection , and remarked that it was not the pecuniary sacrifice that I should make that would deter me , so much as the expenditure I had lately incurred on my House and Glebe , and which would in a measure be thrown away , by my moving to Islay . |
| 28 | ‘ I kept looking for something that would tell me ( the PTL managers ) kept it from Bakker himself … but it never came . ’ |
| 29 | Security and my creature comforts were cared for by a dry-cleaners on the street level ; a cafe on the first floor that would send me up something on a tray when I came home late and tired ; a retired beautician on the second floor who would revive me with an evening ‘ facial ’ ; while the grocer round the corner saw to it that my larder was replenished for my homecomings . |
| 30 | If I ask an engineer how a steam engine works , I have a pretty fair idea of the general kind of answer that would satisfy me . |