Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] i [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't seen any show yet — all the books seemed to imply I should have had one by now . |
| 2 | ‘ Two months before the bullying started an appraisal seemed to say I could walk on water . |
| 3 | If any House of the Dead notebooks had survived I would expect them to contain sudden leaps of discovery and creative arrivals like ‘ Most important — it 's a chronicle 'and |
| 4 | The colours of the countryside as we pass are English colours , greens , golds , the high washed blue bag sky , but as my eyes become adjusted and my mind learns to relax I can see them change and become , in the blue grey light , more obviously French . |
| 5 | The door of the pillbox opened and Cawthorne stepped out , so close to me that if the wind had changed I could have sniffed his after-shave . |
| 6 | So if my pens go missing I 'll know where they are . |
| 7 | He put in a kitchen and he thought there was something funny about these people erm they did n't want to give him money up front for the fabric , you know , the woods and things and he was n't asking the full amount anyway and he said , you know , a things are very tight in business and I do not want to run up any more debts if you will let me have some of cash , some of the cash fo for the wood as soon as the wood 's delivered I 'll come and do the job , it 's not as though your money is going to be tied up in any way and there was a bit of a face pulling and saw this woman drop to , sort of , always hovering around always putting her motty in and erm when th when the job was nearly completed madam steps forward with the cries of that is n't quite right and that is n't quite right and Nev was putting hours doing nit-picking fussing about getting things absolutely perfect got it absolutely perfect but when it came to the final bill they knocked off six hundred because there was the tiniest little scratch on one of the panels ! |
| 8 | N well I was I was erm I would have been called up in another two months after the War was over , if the War had continued I would have been eighteen in in that in the following January . |
| 9 | Baldwin saw Chamberlain and said , ‘ Austen , when Sam has gone I shall want to talk to you about the Foreign Office . ’ ’ |
| 10 | If your wife had answered I would have given her a load of old cods . |
| 11 | The King had decided I would stay in the largest available building , just outside the city gates . |
| 12 | Should the FA come calling I would take any managerial post offered , even Coventry City . |
| 13 | The local vet kept saying I should put her down — he 's not a patch on old Pat Farrel — he was marvellous with dogs . ’ |
| 14 | Gav has said I can use the listserver if I want . |
| 15 | The army had said I would manage no more than fifteen miles a day . |
| 16 | Cos now that we 're in the swimming pool getting changed I 'll turn this off . |
| 17 | Er I should get the doctor to call said I 'd get things |
| 18 | ‘ Once the children have gone I 'll talk to her . ’ |
| 19 | When the hour does come I shall need a good , clear cause , every man I have and all the speed I can muster . |
| 20 | When socialists in the north grew dispirited I would say to them ‘ When you die you shall go to West Ham ’ . |
| 21 | Boys to get dressed I 'll put the washing out and get myself |