Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [conj] i [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got on before I could change my mind and we bounced around for a few minutes . |
| 2 | ‘ At 13 or 14 , I should have been taken away from my family and placed somewhere where I would have felt loved and like a real person . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Sit down and I 'll explain . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Here , Will , sit down and I 'll warm the soup for you and then after you 've eaten perhaps you 'll deliver some repairs for me . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Sit down and I 'll tell you — we 're having another baby . ’ |
| 6 | Sit down and I 'll tell you in joined-up sentences what your brother has managed to inflict on us . ’ |
| 7 | Kenya mostly — sit down and I 'll tell you about them . " |
| 8 | Here , sit down and I 'll make that drink . ’ |
| 9 | Go on then sit down and I 'll sing it , and you have to do the jump up and do the yes I will , quick curl up , quick , quick , right , Jack in the box , resting so still , will you come out ? |
| 10 | Sit down and I 'll bring it through . |
| 11 | Here , sit down and I 'll get some tea on the go . |
| 12 | You shut up and sit down or I 'll kill you all ! |
| 13 | I would think so as I would have think so . |
| 14 | ‘ Sweetie , you know I said if there was anything heavy that needed doing you were to wait until I got in and I 'd do it . |
| 15 | ‘ He asked especially that I should meet you . ’ |
| 16 | And if people mention obstructions I 'll make sure I find out exactly what they mean so that I can identify the threshold of the runway correctly . |
| 17 | I know that if my feet leave the floor of the cave then I 'll float upwards and my head 'll hit the ceiling and my skull 'll get bashed in and I 'll die . |
| 18 | I was a little foolish in earlier years before the electric light , trying to read and sew by the light of an oil lamp and pressing on when I should have stopped and rested my eyes . |
| 19 | And er and they the the afternoon shift used to come on and I used to have to carry all these checks across then , the yard and take 'em and hang 'em up in the in the check-weigh on the pit top where they weighed the wagons of coals . |
| 20 | At that time I believed that the United Kingdom would be facing severe economic problems in the future , and I decided that I wanted to work somewhere where I could serve the community , and make a contribution to the resolution of those problems . |
| 21 | I think there 's a few times I was gon na pack in cos I used to do the same amount of work as everyone else and I got paid |
| 22 | Ten of that eleven people in the last two weeks , sort of , complaining about but they do n't always let me know so that I can document it , that 's the problem . |
| 23 | Now a bad habit that I got into , right , a customer will be talking to me and I do n't know if you 've noticed it , I wo n't let them finish what they 're saying , I 'll jump in because I 'll know what they 're asking me |
| 24 | The vehicles drew alongside and I could see their amber lights through the canvas and hear slamming doors and excited friendly voices . |
| 25 | " I 've worked until I 've dropped so that I should fall asleep with exhaustion and not lie awake remembering you . |
| 26 | Younger than me , yes , just slightly younger than me , two or three years , I do n't know exactly but I should say she 's two or three years younger than me . |
| 27 | Hurry up or I 'll start jerking you up and down and then your hair really will come out and we 'll have enough of it to stuff a sofa ! |
| 28 | Some of these we 've considered before but I 'll tell you how Mill feels on them . |
| 29 | Then he went erm into the Navy for a short time and for some unknown reason he managed to get out of the Navy and came as Mr 's Personal Assistant and erm one of his jobs was to erm get these pe children sorted out and I used to write no end of letters for him to erm places like erm Ilford and Wanstead and mainly the northern suburbs of London erm about certain children who had been attending central schools which were something , which were something that erm East Suffolk could n't offer and erm trying to decide whether they ought to go to grammar school or one of the area schools as they we then were |
| 30 | ‘ But I would always have regretted it if I had turned down the chance to find out whether I could make it at this level . ’ |