Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] [vb infin] i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had the radio on low , in case they interrupted the broadcast with any bulletins that might lead me to the new Night Mayor . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll trade you your ‘ binos ’ for information that might lead me to the whereabouts of Dr Charity Marlowe . ’ |
| 3 | I wondered whether there was anything in the teaching of Tai-Fing that could get me through the next half an hour . |
| 4 | I had to construct a model that would lead me to a series of questions that would have empirically testable answers which would allow me to deduce an answer to my original question . |
| 5 | ‘ I hoped you might tell me something that would lead me to Heather . ’ |
| 6 | That she might not be thinking of them , but simply indulging herself , is the only factor in the situation that would worry me at all . ’ |
| 7 | Groucho said , ‘ Any club that would accept me as a member , I would n't want to join . ’ |
| 8 | I could not pursue a conversation that would put me in the degrading position of having to ask Otto to fill in further gaps in my knowledge and understanding of my own lover . |
| 9 | Fresh from the indulgence of driving the fastest and most powerful Jaguar saloon ever built over several hundred kilometres of demanding roads , I was about to set off on a journey that would take me from one end of Europe to the other . |
| 10 | I started by assembling a collection of objects that would provide me with the type of image I had in mind . |
| 11 | Danger of doing something irrevocable and wrong because initial impetus lost and clue that will lead me to the centre not yet found . |
| 12 | Maybe something will happen that will liberate me from your clutches , so I do n't have to produce your boring designs and do n't end up bankrupt paying your money back , either ! ’ |
| 13 | it 's not one that will inspire me with erm with , with great kind of nationalistic fervour as might have happened in the past when , when you look at nationalistic movements , so erm presumably we 're looking at a range of behaviour which goes from extreme fanatical group membership to relatively weak identification with a group but really does n't to anything else but saying you know if you ask me what I 'll say I was British . |
| 14 | And he , even as he turned his damp face towards me , pink and stupid in his unbuttoned uniform , could only be Casey , rooted in my dreams now , the same leering grin that will haunt me for years . |
| 15 | I do n't understand them and think that I 'm never going to meet anybody nice that will accept me as a single parent . |
| 16 | I have been in touch with a firm that will supply me with a new galvanised chassis which will accept any engine and gearbox conversion I choose . |
| 17 | It is a rare book that can keep me on the ground reading when the weather is good , but that is just what this little publication did . |
| 18 | ‘ And now you 're a magic carpet that can take me to paradise , ’ she said , not feeling in the least foolish for saying something so idiotic . |
| 19 | I listened to myself make a horrible noise like Eric going crazy over the phone , and hoped that nobody was passing and could see me in such an undignified and weak position . |
| 20 | When I mentioned this to my father he said he had to drive up that way and would take me in the car and call back for me within a couple of hours . |
| 21 | For nearly two years , Shanti was reluctant to let me out of her sight , and would follow me from room to room , into the bathroom , wherever it might be . |
| 22 | He guessed rightly that little Didier Bluot was leading me into the cemetery and would direct me to Montaine 's grave . |
| 23 | Hopefully , in the near future , I will say that I am cured , but I do know that whatever I have learned about myself , through the Alexander Technique , will always be with me in the future and will help me through any other crisis in the time to come . |