Example sentences of "[to-vb] what i [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To believe that people have been sensible of God in other ages is not however to accept what I may call the ‘ vehicle ’ of the Christian myth which has carried their religious sensibilities . |
| 2 | I was in agony and I 'd like to know what I should do if it happens again . |
| 3 | Now if you want to know what I 'd like , which holiday I 'd like and I probably will never do it , mind you I ne I need the person to go with because definitely you need a person to go with , I 'd love to go on the Orient Express . |
| 4 | I would n't have changed places with my father 's new children who , although they were five and seven , still seemed to smell of damp nappies and regurgitated milk , but I used sometimes to wonder what I would have been like if he had devoted similar time to me and not left me entirely to the women . |
| 5 | I wandered in a desultory fashion into the family room which looked dead without the fire blazing and began to wonder what I could make for dinner . |
| 6 | Would the right hon. Gentleman therefore care to suggest what I should say to those 420 workers in Rolls-Royce who have been ejected from their jobs with scant courtesy and with no idea why it has happened , who have all the skills required for building motor cars and are not to be given the chance to do so ? |
| 7 | Well i I 'm not aware of how far he has taken anything on board , what I would expect as a Member of Parliament and the House of Commons , and as the leader of a party in the House of Commons , I would expect that he would want to hear what I would have to say face to face , and tell me face to face what 's wrong with what I have said . |
| 8 | Right , now you 're doing what I used to do what I used to do when I started , okay ? |
| 9 | But , she resolved , I 'm going to do what I can to put a stop to it . |
| 10 | I want to do what I can to open the gateways , ’ he told New Scientist . |
| 11 | In September 1764 , eighteen months after they first met , Boswell told Johnson in a letter from Saxony , ‘ It shall be my study to do what I can to render your life happy ; and , if you die before me , I shall endeavour to do honour to your memory . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ They have asked me to do what I can to help and I am happy to do so . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm bound to do what I can to help Sam . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I am going to do what I can to bang their heads together — but it is , frankly , hard going , ’ he said . |
| 15 | I think Con was strong enough and single-minded enough to do what I should have done years ago . |
| 16 | This seems to me to illustrate what I would call the ‘ Breakthrough Phenomenon ’ : the sudden discovery that something which has been assumed to be out of the question is not out of the question at all . |
| 17 | I think at the point where I was struggling to understand what I could do to help myself , I certainly was n't aware of anything called patient-centred medicine at that point , or group-activity in relation to health . |
| 18 | First your mother , now you , trying to dictate what I should read . |
| 19 | Having created my opposition , I had to decide what I would do to them . |
| 20 | I 've had a couple of nice chats with the people at GMTV , but I told them I was n't in a hurry to decide what I would do next and frankly I do n't envy the people who are going straight on to another show . ’ |
| 21 | And I had to decide what I should say … |
| 22 | I have a look to see what I might wear today . |
| 23 | I went through cookbooks to see what I might do with it . |
| 24 | I should like to see what I would have to do to expose other aspects of your personality . ’ |
| 25 | I mean , my immediate management , , now in , in a crisis she 's brilliant , you see , I , I do n't know whether this with this the other day , whether she did n't go to see Paul to see what I 'd say |
| 26 | People were curious to see what I could do . |
| 27 | I had twenty minutes to see what I could do about his combination locks . |
| 28 | I 've been on the mooch trying to see what I could find , ’ Bryce explained . |
| 29 | Whenever I could , I went out , armed with my expensive binoculars , to see what I could find in the fields or to observe the coastal birds — puffins , with the splendid red , yellow and blue bills which they shed when the mating season is over ; cormorants nesting in colonies on ledges in the cliffs ; screeching gannets and all the members of the gull family . |
| 30 | You see they did n't do things then that they would have done today , you see , seven years and you see I at that time , well I used to used to have a day off and instead of having a half day a week we used to have full day a fortnight and so of course on my day off I came home to see what I can do to help , you see and er my mother died . |