Example sentences of "i [vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | if I may give you a word of advice , you may think it 's rude , but when Mr is asking questions try not to turn down towards him , if you try and face across the jury , that 's what carries the voice if you 're looking at them , if you turn to your left , a bit of your head goes down a bit , it 's only natural , you 're not as used to courts as Mr is , er , he , he , your , it , your voice smothers , it 's not a question of shouting it 's just looking in the right direction , yes Mr go on |
| 2 | I should add that there are also a great many flowers that seem to have rather negative meanings , such as the lovely little lawn daisy , which apparently means ‘ delay ’ , or ‘ return after a few days when I may give you an answer ’ — not necessarily the most suitable text to put on a bookmark . |
| 3 | Perhaps I ought to fix you a drink ? ’ |
| 4 | I know that all my readers are keen to know about the knitting in Australia , but it was a working holiday , and I must tell you a little about the ‘ holiday ’ . |
| 5 | We have dinner reservations at Romolo 's , but first I must show you the sunset . ’ |
| 6 | It occurred to me this was not an ideal arrangement ; I had a funny , cold feeling in the middle of dinner that perhaps we had been wrong to delay matters until this last moment , where there could be no immediate follow-up , when I must leave him the next day . |
| 7 | In future I must make it a rule never to use those cold , wet , good-for-nothing days for looking at crags . |
| 8 | Before I sit down , I must bring you an invitation from Switzerland . |
| 9 | The person whom I was going to take over the job from said to me at the end of the meeting well what do you think of that meeting and I must admit I the answer and luckily somebody else instructed with some other business and I felt I got off the hook here but in fact that got dealt with very quickly and he came back to me and said well what did you think of the meeting and I had to say to him just one word , was the way I put it . |
| 10 | So I must give her a ring this week actually . |
| 11 | ‘ I must give you a reason for fighting . |
| 12 | I must see her every day , she must face it full on and she , as , I must stay here , and so Alison must be here too . |
| 13 | " J'ai été très heureux d'avoir été compris par une si aimable Anglaise " , he said , and ended " if you were French I should give you a kiss . |
| 14 | I should give it a miss when you come up north , it 's a bit chilly for that sort of thing , though I could knit you a winter fig leaf . |
| 15 | ‘ Perhaps I should tell you a little about myself , Mrs Wilson , ’ he said when the maid had gone , ‘ … a little about my family and Elsie 's place in it and how I come to be looking for her after such a long time . ’ |
| 16 | The low style is surely recalled by the colloquial " " Hé " " given to God and St Peter as noted above , and the high by the description of the young wife in Les Trois Boçus : ( a beautiful girl So beautiful that she was a delight And if I should tell you the truth I do not think that Nature ever made Any more beautiful creature . ) |
| 17 | I insisted that I should pay her a rent of five shillings a week and also asked her , somewhat tentatively , if she felt able to come and have tea with my mother in Romford . |
| 18 | ‘ Perhaps I should send him a note of apology . ’ |
| 19 | When we talked we agreed that I should send you a copy of the Resource Book for Teachers on CALL . |
| 20 | ‘ Perhaps I should make it a costume party next year . ’ |
| 21 | Maybe I should buy him a place in the country . |
| 22 | I should get her the ballet shoes cause it was a ballet dancing that would be very appropriate and I 'll get her some flowers . |
| 23 | Perhaps I should write her a letter . |
| 24 | The Government are always making predictions , and in that sense the Chancellor may be described as the Mother Shipton — perhaps I should call him the Brother Shipton — of economics . |
| 25 | If a coincidence of this magnitude happened to me , I should call it a miracle and would watch my language in future . |
| 26 | really but seeing as I know her erm I thought I might give her a ring . |
| 27 | I might give you a name one day and the next day the vacancy would be filled . |
| 28 | Were you for instance more comfortable with a Mother fixation , I might give you a Catholic programme or a Russian Orthodox icon system . |
| 29 | Dangerous thing to say we 've already said , but preparing notes is lastly down to yourselves , I might give you a few tips on that . |
| 30 | I might give you a ring later and say can you have Aaron |