Example sentences of "[conj] i [modal v] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't care if it was raw , if the pangs of birth were ugly ; I wanted to be somewhere I would n't be defined by what I 'd been , where I could fashion a new notion of myself and impose it on others as the truth . |
| 2 | Also , there was a pleasant inn about a quarter of a mile away where I could get a room if the tide — in the way of tides — served at some merciless hour of the early morning . |
| 3 | I was told by the FO in London that I would be met at Johannesburg airport — since British aircraft could not land in Rhodesia while UDI existed — and would be conveyed to the British Consulate there where I could have a rest . |
| 4 | For my own part , having a little woodland garden , this is one of the two plants which I am forever poking in where I can find a place for another . |
| 5 | ‘ I wonder if you might tell us of a local hostelry where I can purchase a good dinner ? |
| 6 | Maybe I 'll get there one day , or I might take a day trip to EuroDisney sometime in the summer months . |
| 7 | Can you switch the toaster off , put the pancake in or I 'll have a burnt pancake . |
| 8 | If there were some point under heated discussion , either he or I would write a letter to our own newspaper , using a Burmese pseudonym , and the other would answer it in the name of government . |
| 9 | And first of all before we er we put the reports we , there are a number of er , there 's one alteration and a number of er , additions obviously alteration or I should say a a an amendment is something an important place on page fifteen er , at the tope of the page referring to December nineteen ninety two I 've put , which is agreed by GP committee with the exception of young these representatives , that we ask them to bring thirty pounds towards the cost that should be twenty five . |
| 10 | Although I used to enjoy a drink , I started really drinking heavily after he died . |
| 11 | So although I 'd assume a potential audience of mainly women who 'd be interested in this topic , the programme actually distanced that audience by addressing a hypothetical man who 'd think it rather ‘ odd ’ to select women candidates at all . |
| 12 | Stepping carefully over the gutter , Gonzalo remarked that I ought to wear a coat like he did . |
| 13 | He suggested that I might give a dinner to the leading newspaper editors and proprietors , when he could make some statement calculated to neutralise some of the undoubted venom that was then directed at him . |
| 14 | I have worked , I have exhausted myself day in day out , for years , and nobody has ever considered my age or health , it never entered my mother 's head that I might welcome a break , new surroundings , a chance to be waited on . |
| 15 | I suggested , and then went on to say that I might find a little job . |
| 16 | A curate at St Luke 's , an older man from the West Indies , almost persuaded my parents to let me go out to Codrington College in the West Indies , but my headmaster was firm against this , expressing the hope that I might get a scholarship to an English university . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm keeping my fingers crossed that I might get a bit of it to strengthen the squad . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It did n't occur to you that I might have a lot on my mind ? |
| 19 | I honestly think meself , that I might have a have a couple of hard months , maybe three , first three months might be a bit difficult for me . |
| 20 | I feel that I might prove a hindrance rather than a help . ’ |
| 21 | We were invited to stay with friends living in Northern Burgundy , and to visit a painting school at La Buia , in Umbria , with the idea that I might take a class there in May 1993. there was some discussion , earlier in the year , of another in Venice , and we will break our journey there , for breakfast , next week . |
| 22 | The only thing that I might need a medical for is my thirty thousand pound life insurance . |
| 23 | It never occurred to me that I might become a poet — partly because there were no books in the damp little prefab where we lived . |
| 24 | ‘ Thinking I would stretch the rules to suit myself is very different from thinking I would be so consumed by greed that I would commit a felony . ’ |
| 25 | My brother said that I would make a good banker . |
| 26 | If we 're given an assignment , whatever it is , perform it well , do n't think that I would make a better magazine servant than that brother over there and I do n't like it on the accounts , why do they always use me as a hall servant ? |
| 27 | ‘ My imagination is n't so impoverished that I would invent a name like Jones , ’ she came back . |
| 28 | Today I decided that I would organize a little party tomorrow night . |
| 29 | It was to be filmed in a Spanish club off Oxford Street , and I promised my flamenco friend Nuria , who taught me all I knew for my part in the About Face playlet , Señor Duende , that I would don a leotard and flounce for her . |
| 30 | This does not mean that I like to be led by the nose , but only that I would appreciate a little extra guidance ’ . |