Example sentences of "i [vb mod] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must in honesty , wonder whether the smaller , reduced unitary |
| 2 | He might advise me to make a statement to the police which I should of course do under his guidance . |
| 3 | That 's what I mean , when I go to bed I should in theory . |
| 4 | The notion of difference of level between quite different programming languages can equally well be expressed within a single language : at a single level of language , say of the programming language LISP , one normally defines a function in terms of sub-functions , so that I might for example write a function WALK(x) ( where x ranges over walkers ) whose sub-functions ( to be executed in order ) might be some form of LIFT-RIGHT-LEG ; FLEX-RIGHT-FOOT ; and so on ( I am not suggesting that sequence would be even remotely plausible in fact ) . |
| 5 | he said I might to town today . |
| 6 | I might of course only gesture and say " John " , but unless my gesture means , or can be understood to mean , " the man over there " , or something akin to this , " John " will fail to communicate anything . |
| 7 | I know that 's why I 'm not , I 'm I might over Miss . |
| 8 | I did anything I could at home when the children were small to make a bit of money . ’ |
| 9 | In 1779 Boswell wrote : ‘ I was quite enchanted with Chester that I could with difficulty quit it . ’ |
| 10 | I could with ease place my arm on the roof as I stood by one of them in the road . |
| 11 | Erm I could of course and will of course erm take advice as to whether the rent we 're now charging them is reasonable . |
| 12 | Er but again y'know I could in theory provide some handouts for you which you could perhaps pick up at the end of the er of the lecture from the front or even have available in a general office for you , okay ? |
| 13 | So I could in fact use it to prove that there should be a singularity only if the universe was expanding fast enough to avoid collapsing again ( since only those Friedmann models were infinite in space ) . |
| 14 | With the playback that in fact erm as has said it showed me what in fact I was doing right and wrong , erm I 've been on television before once when I was running the London marathon but this time it was actually me and me alone in a work element and I could in fact see what I was doing and why I was doing it and understand in fact the corrections from the morning to in fact the afternoon presentation when I came back for the second one . |
| 15 | In fact I have gone further and said a " mixed " crew was , in my view , infinitely better than , any " national " crew , one of the reasons , possibly , for the high proportion of Commonwealth crews was my established policy of spreading my selection net as widely as I could in view of the poor cooperation of the Groups ; to this end I literally plagued the various HQs in London — the Aussies at Kodak House etc . |
| 16 | if I 'd only been there when he died , I 'd of hold his hands , blah , blah , oh God , poor lass |
| 17 | Anyway I 'd of beat you anyway . |
| 18 | I used to stagger off to work like a complete zombie until I decided to take a lesson from the Chinese . |
| 19 | And I used to dress er rabbits |
| 20 | Erm , er so of course there was always people coming to the house connected with the Co-op educational side , you know and erm I used to sort of you kn understand it all , mother was the treasurer and sometimes the secretary would come down to see her . |
| 21 | Er anyway the that was the cook 's job and that was my job , I used to sort of go across and fetch this tea and have it ready by the time the men gave up work at nine o'clock . |
| 22 | you know I used to sort of bellow out |
| 23 | And I , I used to sort of sit in er put sit myself in my little erm bunk you know ? |
| 24 | Oh I do n't know I used to boyfriend . |
| 25 | I would outside school |
| 26 | Three months is the maximum I can impose as you have never been in jail before , but if I could give you more , I would without hesitation . ’ |
| 27 | I would with goodwill repay Master Parry his daughter 's dowry , but at this moment it is out of my power . |
| 28 | Mind you I would at Christmas . |
| 29 | He was referring to the times at Achnacarry when I would on occasion meet the trainees returning from a speed march and pipe them the last two miles back to the camp . |
| 30 | I would of course have to write to Miss Kenton to tell her I might be passing by ; I would also need to see to the matter of the costumes . |