Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ For good reasons which you may or may not understand , I desire to remain here in the wilderness away from those to whom I may inadvertently bring catastrophe . |
2 | ‘ I should rather keep company with Mrs Frere . |
3 | One thing I have learned is that I should never tell class members to lift their ‘ jambon ’ . ’ |
4 | ‘ When I 've seen you safely on the train , I should still have time enough to get to the auction . ’ |
5 | I should happily give way — if it were in my power to do so — to give them the opportunity to dissociate themselves from that appalling motion . |
6 | They have white filters , and I am concerned lest in this poor light I should mistakenly set fire to the wrong end . |
7 | I think he hoped I might eventually add distinction to the family name , of which he was intensely proud , and his initial interest in me also developed into affection . |
8 | Paula said slyly , ‘ I might just tell Mum what you and Edward get up to in the pictures . ’ |
9 | Finally Mr Mayor I might just take issue with councillor . |
10 | ‘ But I might just feign insanity some day and come back for another cup of that damned fine coffee . ’ |
11 | I might even give money to The Campaign for Heavier Helmets today . |
12 | ‘ So you did , and in that case , if you 're a very good girl , I might yet make love to you . ’ |
13 | I reckoned I might still escape detection , however , if I ran on my toes in a sort of hearty limbering up exercise . |
14 | ‘ Perhaps I 'll even have time to persuade you not to run away from me after all , mus . ’ |
15 | Let's straight into seventeen then , I 'll just remind committee that we need to move to the confidential section at five o'clock today in order to get it finished . |
16 | I 'll just bet modellin' is thirsty work . ’ |
17 | Er I 'll just put Miss signal to probe into areas . |
18 | So I 'll just put prospecting . |
19 | aha , that 's , so I did , cos this week well maybe on a diet I 'll , I 'll just get salad stuff and , you know when you , I 'll just get the mince and er shops that shops that and I 'll just get me frozen stuff at the , you know , just at the |
20 | I 'll just have cream . ’ |
21 | ‘ I 'll just have whisky and hot water then . ’ |
22 | I 'll just have butter . |
23 | No , I 'll just have butter . |
24 | No , I do n't want one just now , I may have one later , not just now cos I 'll just have mineral water again . |
25 | ‘ I 'll also have honey , walnut and caramel ice-cream with a double sprinkling of ‘ fat in five seconds ’ , please . ’ |
26 | I 'll soon have breakfast ready . " |
27 | ‘ Put it like this : if you ever leave me I 'll probably commit hara-kiri with a blunt penknife . ’ |
28 | Yeah , well I 'll probably pay cash , it 's just that electric bill 's and gas bill 's in . |
29 | I 'll probably go gas , when they get gas down there the only thing that |
30 | I 'll probably get rheumatism in my shoulder and nobody to blame but myself . |