Example sentences of "what i [vb mod] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's a thief , a criminal , he nicked my bag and I had to sift through every shit-bin in Bristol till I found my dreams and found out what I ought to 've known all along if you had n't … |
| 2 | Have you any suggestions as to what I might try to overcome the problem ? |
| 3 | ‘ If I 'd started at 17 or 18 , who knows what I might have achieved . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's no good thinking of what I might have done , Carrie . |
| 5 | Happiness , I knew , was not something she thought much of as an end : it was as if she had said , I 'm glad you do n't mind being poor , and , although when I replied to her , it was only to tell her about the baby , Thomas , and how he had put on five pounds and had cut his first tooth , I brooded over what I might have said while I stood at the sink or pushed the pram , making great , windy speeches in my mind , venting on my absent aunt the curious , unreasonable anger that seemed to rise up before me like a dark pit , bottomless and frightening . |
| 6 | Or perhaps … perhaps it 's what I might have to say that you 're frightened of ? |
| 7 | Slightly towards one end , on the surface that was now uppermost on the table , rested a long , unevenly shaped darkish slab of what I might have thought was rough-faced granite . |
| 8 | What I 'll do pay out extra for two bits of plastic . |
| 9 | What I 'll do to pick it up play a game , probably play a game later . |
| 10 | Obviously then we need to pick up the appraisal system , and I think what I 'll have to do with that , is as the targets kep co start coming in , erm we 'll have to set up some sort of system , preferably I suspect computerized . |
| 11 | Well I , I , I 'll , what I 'll have to do is have a word with the local police on this , cos it 's not something I can deal with tonight . |
| 12 | ‘ Then what I 'll have to do is to get a confession from the real murderer . ’ |
| 13 | Well , that 's what I 'll have to look for now . |
| 14 | That 's what I 'll have to get for these chairs |
| 15 | As I seek after truth , so shall I always be glad to receive any information from my friends , even if they should contradict what I may have published , yet I shall never think it derogatory to my character to own my mistakes , and rectify them . |
| 16 | you know what I would 've got ? |
| 17 | What I would give to walk free in the mortal world again ! ’ |
| 18 | What I would prefer to say , and what I think these extracts illustrate , is that there are different kinds of logic in conversation . |
| 19 | Er , what I would prefer to do is to er listen to the amendment put forward by the as if that were an amendment to the adoption minute since there 's nothing to be adopted at the moment , erm I will then speak on that amendment , well I would probably speak against it erm at that point er there could be a vote on that amendment line by line . |
| 20 | And I think that you have to look much more carefully at what I would want to call positive discrimination . |
| 21 | So we either , in terms of number of institutions I would think we probably count it as an F E institution , because this the A level is , is much smaller than the other F E. But in terms of F E students and sixth form students , what I would want to do is count the A level students as sixth form students . |
| 22 | What I would want to hear is something about how the parts of an engine interact with each other to produce the behaviour of the whole engine . |
| 23 | And if somehow or other the , the , the whole of that er , erm , number nine , including the can be deferred , and I believe it should be , then that is what I would wish to happen , I would wish Mr to continue to have the freedom to see what the options are for this county council . |
| 24 | What I would wish to make absolutely clear is I do n't believe that in the context of a liberal democracy that is even remotely a possibil it 's a possibility but it 's not an acceptable solution . |
| 25 | But what I would wish to suggest is that other considerations of an evolutionary kind lend weight to the view McDowell is challenging . |
| 26 | I wonder what I would have missed . |
| 27 | Oh that 's what I would have missed then ? |
| 28 | I wonder what I would have loved . |
| 29 | So that 's what I would have gone to there . |
| 30 | I wonder what I would have seen . |