Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [modal v] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir , If you please to send me a scarlet Cardinal [ a short red cloak ] , and let it be full yard long , and rather longer than a yard long , and let it be full , for it be for a large Woman , they tell me I may have a long one , and a handsome one , for 11s but I shou 'd not be willing to give more than 12s , but if you have any as long as that , either duffil or cloth , if it is cheaper , I shou 'd like it as well as , for I am not to give but 12s for it . |
| 2 | if it was me I 'd draw a thick trunk and lots of lines come out from it . |
| 3 | Annie told me I 'd get a bike for Christmas — a red one with a basket . |
| 4 | This told me I could have a flight to America , if I was quick , a copy of Flight Stimulator too ! |
| 5 | From where I was standing , far below me I could see a separate miniature fort linked to the mother fortress by an umbilical causeway . |
| 6 | A policeman told me I should pay a policeman to escort me to a taxi . ’ |
| 7 | Econometrics appears to help in determining budgets , and in the deployment of media expenditure — but when an econometrician tells me I should adopt a ‘ drip ’ pattern on TV rather than a ‘ burst ’ pattern ( see page 115 ) , I want to know why . |
| 8 | ‘ She told me I should find a rich girlfriend . |
| 9 | It is now most unusual for me to find anyone with whom I can have a knowledgeable chat about day and night netting . |
| 10 | So I was determined to show them I could take a joke and the next time a big stork went over I pretended not to know what it was called and asked my girl . |
| 11 | He was speaking to someone and beyond them I could see a brightly lit room with vast chandeliers and women in white dresses . |
| 12 | It spoils them dear , you should n't throw them I can smell a smell |
| 13 | I I I 'll have a look at the question . |
| 14 | He wanted me have a go , but I 'm not no I I 'll have a go another time when it 's quiet , not when there 's be been showing me . |
| 15 | Helena , I do n't really know how to put this but I I 'll have a go . |
| 16 | Yeah , but I I 'll have a |
| 17 | I I would buy a bubble-jet . |
| 18 | I I would climb a tree where |
| 19 | I I I 'd take a drop of a hundred , yeah . |
| 20 | I I can fill a whole tape |
| 21 | I think yours I 'd make a lovely picture |
| 22 | Each time the Collective Ghost clutches at someone they must make a successful WP test or suffer the same effect ; if they are already suffering from despair , the effect lasts an extra D10 turns . |
| 23 | They became lovers , but Valerie did n't know that Sanquest regarded her as a mere plaything — someone he could have a little fun with ; someone he could display before his friends as his latest conquest . |
| 24 | Apart from doing the job of Principal ( for which I shall need a lot of help from the Lord ) , and living as a Christian I do n't yet know what the Lord wants me to do out there . |
| 25 | I shall here consider three such attempts to connect past and present : firstly , that which I shall call a ‘ kairos ’ approach , in which the past is basically normative but it is said that there can be development ; secondly , that which I shall call the ‘ golden thread ’ approach , in which a leading motif is lifted out of the past and applied in another situation ; thirdly , that which I shall call an ‘ a priori ethical ’ position , in which essentially authority is seen to lie in the present but there is not perceived to be any fundamental clash with the past . |
| 26 | got first which I 'll get a different trophy from last year cos I 've got the same trophy for two years . |
| 27 | And another sixteen percent is the other Ne Nestle coffee erm Blend Thirty Seven which I used to drink a long time ago and others and twenty two percent is er |
| 28 | Opposite the fire-place was a table , which I should call a Pembroke , only that it was made of deal , and I can not tell how far such a name may be applied to such humble material . |
| 29 | He promised to bring me a few notes from which I could prepare a draft but he never did . ’ |
| 30 | To escape this branding of myself as a bodily failure , I longed to be able to attach myself to an organisation stronger than myself , an association through which I could derive a feeling of physical achievement and personal status I would not otherwise possess . |