Example sentences of "[noun] i [modal v] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For these reasons I shall make a declaration to the effect that for the purposes of Part II of the Act of 1987 , an assignee of part of a deposit as defined in section 5 is to be treated as entitled to the assigned part of the deposit and as having made a deposit of an amount equal to that part . |
| 2 | If that was the case I 'd play a synthesiser . ’ |
| 3 | I like to feel that if it came to a stand-up fight I would have a good chance of victory and escape . |
| 4 | Chairman I would like a word . |
| 5 | ‘ If I go to the cinema I 'll have a panic attack and everyone will want to have me thrown out . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Of course I 'd bear a grudge , ’ said Lydia , amazed that anyone could imagine she might not . |
| 7 | Of course I must add a , a word of warning here , because whereas once upon a time many people used to be able to ring the Weather Centres or a Met Office to get their own personal forecast , which was very nice , we enjoyed doing this , it has now got to the stage where so many people are trying to ring us that we just can not deal with all the enquiries personally , and we 're looking into ways and means of erm providing forecasts of this sort of nature , they 're general sort of nature , by other means , such as radio and television . |
| 8 | If I can get three or four dishes into the freezer I can do a dinner party without worrying about being home in time to cook . ’ |
| 9 | As I walk round the croft I can feel a strange sensation in my stomach , a feeling not unlike fear , and I now know that she is dead . |
| 10 | With luck I 'll break a leg or something . ’ |
| 11 | I always find good company in kitchens , and I know from experience I 'll have a welcome down below . |
| 12 | If I say to you , Sarah I 'd like a few words with you . |
| 13 | – I dare say that when I strip the tank down in the future I 'll find a mixed colony lurking somewhere in a corner ! |
| 14 | Jean I 'd love a vodka now ! |
| 15 | In practice one can only talk about one thing at a time , and in this Chapter I shall risk a distorting simplicity by looking at questions of theory largely in isolation from institutional matrices and situations , and concentrating on British activities to the exclusion of the American ones that accompanied or preceded them . |
| 16 | Well I 'll see if I can the te telly I must have a . |
| 17 | Then before putting the resolution to the vote I shall say a few words and ask whether , ah , there are any questions . |
| 18 | Then after four months I will have a long holiday . ’ |
| 19 | In my neighbourhood I can hear a sampling of Spanish , Portuguese , Chinese , Urdu , Polish , Italian and West Indian English when I take my children across the street to the park . |
| 20 | For native English speakers I would give a quite different kind of lecture , and I did not want to be judged by the standards of my lectures to the Japanese , which were nearly always basic and very simple in expression . |
| 21 | Brazil is a eventually in Mexico I could become a Mexican , way up to a Mexico , how do we get to a Mexico , jump to a Mexico ! |
| 22 | I moved so quietly I barely stirred the dust , yet now in the English winter I could hear a spectral echo of angry laughter and I thought it was my own . |
| 23 | In the winter I 'd have a vest underneath and a green army jumper over the shirt , but not in the summer . |
| 24 | And remember , if we need an urgent op I can fly a patient to Sanderstown in under the hour . |
| 25 | I can confirm , however , that on 11 February I shall announce a major campaign — car crime prevention year . |
| 26 | so I 've put that away , I , it ai n't even in my account , Alan 's got that and I said to Alan if I pass this test I shall buy a banger , five hundred quid with this tax money and then put the odd to insurance , if I do n't I 'll leave it where it is , because I , I mean little one will want a holiday and that anyway so I 've kept it for that , but that 's what I intend to do , so I said to Alan if I get a little banger just enough to get me to Tettering and back I was gon na go tech , to do some courses |
| 27 | now if I was to go there and back that 's eighty pence , I mean I could get , for , for that e extra eighty pence I could get a few things in there that are dearer but I mean I like going down the town anyway and just wander and go back but I do get a few more bits in there now than I did . |
| 28 | Through the window I could see a group of men walking away . |
| 29 | And not long before leaving England I 'd read a newspaper item revealing that a Gauguin landscape bought by another novelist , Hugh Walpole , in 1924 for £145 would now in the thirties be worth around £6,000 , and that Hermann Goering in Nazi Germany had recently paid Alfred Krupp the armaments boss 10,000 Reichmarks for another of the wayward artist 's pictures . |
| 30 | Just the first kit , yes I shall probably do that there put it in without an envelope looks like there might , I might have so an odd I got some more of the envelopes at home I might have a small one , but er |