Example sentences of "[conj] i [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | B-but I dare say you would n't like it . |
| 2 | ‘ If her car had broken down your Dad or me would have passed it on the road . ’ |
| 3 | Do you know that there 's men running clubs up there who would murder somebody like you or me would have a cup of tea ? |
| 4 | Take lots of care , & I 'll phone sometime soon |
| 5 | If it is only — or mainly — accommodation problems which stop you repeating the year , Grandad & I would like you to know that you are welcome to live here & go to Oban High School . |
| 6 | When the time comes , I know exactly where I shall hide : ‘ far from the madding crowd ’ . |
| 7 | Then I became a vagrant and travelled far and nowhere ; now I have come back to be near Callanish again , though quite where I shall go I do n't know . |
| 8 | Stopping to ask a local woman where I might find Dr Mareda , I discovered that I was speaking to his companion , Vera , and that I had stopped outside their front door . |
| 9 | Do you know if such a list exists and if so where I might get hold of it ? |
| 10 | ‘ I was teaching , but one of the reason things worked out so well for me was that I did n't have to worry how I would eat or where I would sleep . |
| 11 | That 's the reason I have brought you to this quiet garden , not to some tavern where I would drink myself senseless . |
| 12 | Ahead I could see the Bomb Circle , where I would stop or turn . |
| 13 | ‘ They were afraid I was going to do a hatchet job , being from the City , but I have n't found an instance where I would want to get rid of anyone . ’ |
| 14 | We walked to the boy 's mother 's house where I would stay while we worked on the bride house . |
| 15 | I suffered agonies of suspense in silence , for I never knew when or where I would see you again , or whether she would be with you . |
| 16 | My destination was Victoria station where I would try and catch a boat-train to France . |
| 17 | I did not want to go into the dark house , where I would spend the evening quietly with old Mrs Fairfax . |
| 18 | Head of Department : ‘ In 1976 I had a clear idea where I would like to be going : |
| 19 | ‘ I am disappointed because I finished fresh and fifth where I would have rather been exhausted and higher in the list . |
| 20 | I would enjoy a job where I would have to talk , persuade or advise people |
| 21 | A major installation of Beuys , ‘ Arena ( where I would have got if I had been intelligent ) ’ , created in 1970–72 ( see The Art Newspaper No.16 , March 1992 , p.6 ) , remains on exhibition at the Dia Center for the Arts until mid-April , while the MoMA exhibition travels to the Museum of Contemporary Art , Los Angeles ( 30 May-15 August ) , the Philadelphia Museum of Art ( 10 October-2 January 1994 ) and the Art Institute of Chicago ( 15 February-25 April 1994 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ At 13 or 14 , I should have been taken away from my family and placed somewhere where I would have felt loved and like a real person . ’ |
| 23 | I think they go for more sorts of jobs , it 's difficult to list them , but a lot are going into computing and electronics today , but we have people — we had one student who 's gone into accountancy , Royal Navy , weapons research , gas board , chemical side as opposed to physical side , video discs , hospital physics , where I would have thought the chemical aspects would be of use to them as well as the physics . |
| 24 | Treshnish ignored Lachlan , bowed to Eachuinn Odhar with respect and asked , ‘ Duart , will you tell me now where I may find my daughter , who handfasted with Lachlan Cattanach a year ago ? |
| 25 | Oh , he said , I expect in a minute the door will be flung back and I 'll be dragged off to some sort of temple arena where I 'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then I 'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl will show me the secret passage out of the place and we 'll liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure . ’ |
| 26 | I think about what I 'm going to do next … what I 'm going to cook , the children , where I 'll take them out … this sort of thing . |
| 27 | Actually , I 'm in a situation now where I 'd love to be celibate … but I really love sex . |
| 28 | Where I 'd say right meaning I understand kind of thing but I 'm not saying that 's right I mean right . |
| 29 | My nose was running again , and my thumb was throbbing where I 'd cut it on the piece of glass in the bin . |
| 30 | I realised my elbow was throbbing painfully where I 'd hit the stone floor . |