Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [vb mod] [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In that case I 'll have one too , ’ Nick took a pack of Silk Cut from his pocket . |
| 2 | If I 'm to solve this wretched murder case I must have something that belonged to MacQuillan . |
| 3 | Please mum I 'll do anything , anything . |
| 4 | He pauses and gives a lazy Dirty Harry-style smile : ‘ But if it 's falling off a building I 'll let someone else do it . ’ |
| 5 | As an islander I can see something of both points of view , and I have been aware of a sense of embarrassment in some of my Faroese friends that the outside world should think of them as ‘ barbarians ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Of course I 'll write something . ’ |
| 7 | I nearly always write with an acoustic , but if it 's tuned to an open chord you will obviously have to write something different ; if you stick a capo on it you 'll write something different ; if I use an amplifier and an electric guitar I 'll write something different again . |
| 8 | The March of Progress has alas transformed the goodly white bread into that unique substance , restaurateur 's toast , while tea and coffee are replaced by gin-and-tonic or a bottle of white wine , and for my part I would say none the worse for that . |
| 9 | We shall have to consider the sub judice rule in relation to what is said , but at present I can see nothing sub judice in this matter . |
| 10 | During the lunch break I might have one more go at seeing what all the bloody fuss is about over that sobbing pop LP by Tori Amos . |
| 11 | Why not stay here tonight and on the morrow I will have someone take you over to Briar Cottage with a wagon ? |
| 12 | No just , no , no bronchitis I should imagine nothing wrong with me apart from that . |
| 13 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 14 | It is one thing to claim that by sharing in a dramatic exploration of a theme I can learn something about myself in the process , and quite another to suggest the drama is for me and about me . |
| 15 | No I meant tomorrow evening I 'll have one . |
| 16 | And every evening I 'd cook something like meat , baked potato and vegetables , whether was there or not . |
| 17 | If I had , if I had room I 'd have nothing , toaster and that I hate it all |
| 18 | One day I will tell everyone the truth about that night , and clear my name . |
| 19 | I know what my problem is , so I think to myself at least on Christmas Day I can have one normal , decent day . |
| 20 | It was a good hotel — but more expensive than I had intended : next day I must arrange everything . |
| 21 | one day I 'd cook something and the next day another girl would . |
| 22 | In the distance I could hear something , something I had to pay attention to . |
| 23 | Mr Staton always takes a group one so if you say just a minute I 'd like one too . |
| 24 | If I do wish to continue receiving the New Internationalist each month I need do nothing . |
| 25 | And he goes , I did n't do anything And he goes , he goes , she goes , right , you be the captain I 'll do everything else , do n't touch nothing . |
| 26 | If he does n't turn up at his yard in the morning I 'll believe something 's really happened to him . |
| 27 | ‘ But I have this feeling I ought to do something . |
| 28 | He has hired Seth Riggs to get him in fine voice for the new musical I 'll Do Anything . |
| 29 | As a result of your win I can buy something special for your ma . |
| 30 | Well , it 's good to have some sort of an explanation I can give everyone . |