Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] i [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Is there a shower or bath I could use ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ If you touch that fish I 'll have you up the steps before you can say Jack Robinson , ’ hissed Herbie , going blue in the face ‘ Whaddya mean , ’ argued Lofty , ‘ I found im and I got ta licence . ’ |
| 3 | So try and get that wish I could get through that . |
| 4 | In the pages that follow I will characterize some of the more obvious signs of a badly organized and motivated operation . |
| 5 | I may be tempted to offer the spontaneous inclination itself as reason for my choice , and say I shall do it because I want to do it ; but in examining myself objectively I see that a fact about my wants and likes would be directly relevant only to a causal explanation of my actions , and could be used in deciding what to do only as I use any other objective facts . |
| 6 | I would prefer not to have my guy stand up and say I may have been involved in an assassination . ’ |
| 7 | Well if we 're not I 'll ring him up and say I 'll say er |
| 8 | Should watch that clock and say I 'll have one every two hours . |
| 9 | they ca n't tell the difference I mean there 's nothing In fact if I ca n't get Krona at Presto and I ca n't get it at Co-op , I shall write to Kr to Pre to Krona and say I 'll have a I 'll have a box . |
| 10 | If you decide you want to a buy a new cooker and you go to the Gas Showrooms or the Electricity Showrooms and say I 'd like to buy that cooker there and I would like to spread the payments over time , normally nowadays twenty four months or thirty six months . |
| 11 | The Great Britain skipper , out for four of the last six games with hamstring trouble , said : ‘ I 'm glad to be back and hope I can sort things out with the club without too much fuss . ’ |
| 12 | Well yeah , I 've had a come for one day , pay for a day and hope I can sneak in on the two day . |
| 13 | Dublin said : ‘ I hope my first goal will now help me settle and show I can score more for the club and the fans who have been so good . ’ |
| 14 | He had said : ‘ I hope my first goal will help me settle and show I can score more for the club . |
| 15 | It 's an eight-way-scrolling arcade extravaganza with graphics and sound I could have cheerfully shot my grandmother for . |
| 16 | I really did enjoy myself in the Tests last summer and know I can reproduce that form again . ’ |
| 17 | But I have been divorced 30 years and know I 'd feel the same as the man who was jailed if I found my wife in the arms of someone else . |
| 18 | But the company 's past and present I can sum up quite quickly , if you like . |
| 19 | And I , I suspect that they 're on their way out because the way they leap and scream and bang and thump I should think that they , most of them have been on drugs . |
| 20 | ‘ I might do the tennis stuff for three or four years and decide I can do it sleepwalking and turn to something I really care about and like to pursue , which is politics . ’ |
| 21 | I WAS very surprised to see P. Sampson 's letter ( HAS February 22 ) attacking the National Trust and feel I must reply . |
| 22 | I have now been a member of the Institute since my election in April 1991 and feel I must compliment you on Credit Management . |
| 23 | I have always kept myself fit and feel I could continue playing until I am 35 . ’ |
| 24 | Say that for me and go I 'd say it were you were a snob . |
| 25 | But , as he assured Southey on 21 October , he was resolved to be true to his word , even as he contemplated a future with ‘ her , whom I do not love — but whom by every tie of Reason and Honor I ought to love ’ . |
| 26 | However , I can only look at most of the styles you feature with envy as I have been very silly and think I may have damaged my hair forever . |
| 27 | Wilkinson added : ‘ When I am old and grey I will tell people that I was there when Eric Cantona scored that goal against Chelsea . ’ |
| 28 | and when you try t in the past when I tried to find some way of imposing discipline , there is no way because quite rightly , you 're not allowed to strike children , I never wanted to and I I hardly ever did at one school where there was a marvellous spirit of give and take I used to whip off my little black velvet slipper occasionally and whack some of the larger boys about the top of the thigh . |
| 29 | Not bad considering age and form I 'd say . |
| 30 | wonder why you — But mibbe I should thank ma |