Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] i [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rev Jim Caterer , vicar of Standish , said : ‘ I never say something is impossible but in this case I wish I could say just that . |
| 2 | You probably all knew this … but just in case I thought I 'd let you know . |
| 3 | In any case I think I can answer your questions without disturbing her . ’ |
| 4 | Em I think I 'll talk to you now |
| 5 | Anyway i , d' you wan na use your hose I mean I 'll put the car in the garage if you do . |
| 6 | ‘ I like the inside lanes , and if I get the right lane I think I can go under 20 seconds . |
| 7 | Having taught English Literature for a long time in universities , on both sides of the Atlantic , and having spent some years pondering the questions raised in this book , I have come to some very tentative conclusions about what might be done ; they are not , I might add , of the kind I thought I would come to when I began working on it . |
| 8 | I need bereavement , blackmail , earthquake , leprosy , injury , penury I think I 'll try stress . |
| 9 | Well , having talked about my interest in , in popular literature I suppose I should begin by saying I do n't much like the distinction between good literature and pulp literature but , on the other hand , I do accept that it has a function . |
| 10 | And er they happen came along er to tell us about the Aberystwyth trip we went off to Aberystwyth the students gave us a party and he said , Oh I like your meetings I wish I could come here more often . |
| 11 | With what little money I had I would try to wear unusual suits or hats , learning a combination of subtlety and the unexpected in order to gain attention . |
| 12 | Well I saw this present I thought I could find it sort of erm well I suppose I would off everywhere . |
| 13 | Not not not a great deal I mean I 'd like possibly to try and stay in erm the field of archaeology to some |
| 14 | The windows were obscured by curtains , but if I strained my eyes I thought I could make out the shadow of a figure standing behind them , never moving . |
| 15 | ‘ I get lots of film synopses sent to me and after this movie I hope I will get a lot more . |
| 16 | What I want to do wha with the bulldozer I got I would like to poke it that shovel one . |
| 17 | think to myself well it 's six months I wish I 'd have done it in August , now . |
| 18 | within six months I know I 'll have no more money problems . |
| 19 | which is enough to do four little little pictures I thought I might do for the craft thing in September , erm you know our flower festival and erm in which case I 'd have had to purchase a few of your little thingies that 's pretty . |
| 20 | They bring me dogs bones for the dogs and they like talking to my parrot I wish I could get rid of the bleeding thing though . |
| 21 | Actually Milky Bar I think I 'd prefer that tonight . |
| 22 | Yes , in poetry I felt I could stand at least as his equal , and indeed what started off that day as a sort of master-pupil relationship soon became a strange kind of poetic collaboration , in which we played equal parts . |
| 23 | ‘ As chairman of the community services committee I believe I should go to see all the community centres in Belfast as Seamus Lynch did when he was chairman . ’ |
| 24 | REAL LIFE After SIX miscarriages I knew I 'd get lucky WOMEN 'S LOOS The scandal no one talks about ! |
| 25 | Well old was , was er absolute er you 'd never think anybody 'd would buy anything out of his shop , er my father went in for something once and he , and he said you can see them hanging up ca n't you , I mean er salesmanship was on unheard of as far as he was concerned they were there , why ask him if he 'd got any , but erm course you must remember I was only a little boy I mean I can remember all this , I took it all in but I would n't say that I knew them er I knew Miss , from the grocer 's shop she was a Sunday School teacher , and er the Sunday School used to be at Road School we used to have a Sunday School there and a Mr used to take this . |
| 26 | if the ban on those of us who went to South Africa with Mike Gatting is lifted in July I believe I can win back a place in the England side . |
| 27 | That question I think I can answer . |
| 28 | It was Fergus who suggested I should ask you about LaMotte . ’ |
| 29 | a blood test he said I should think what 's happened , that guy who 's seen you , has , I , cos I said it was his understudy , yeah , cos he said Wendy had seen Mr Hudson so obviously the notes were n't in there were they ? |
| 30 | There is a profound inertia and part of that in many places surely with it there is a profound inertia on another matter Dr Stuart referred to , in an answering a question he said I would see this as the , the role of the elder . |