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Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] i [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	So she went like this pulled our her note card and said I can put it on now she said .
2	As the two women shook hands Didi added , ‘ I heard voices and thought I 'd pop in to say hello . ’
3	Most people said I should get probation , but I was looking on the black side and thought I would get a sentence of three to five years .
4	Erm I think if someone er told me I need to control my car whilst driving I would have erm one hand on the steering wheel .
5	I said give us the keys and said I 'll take the bloody car .
6	He started telling me that I was an emotional cretin and to improve I 'd have to pay them a load of money to get into their reading room — at £10 an hour .
7	Cos I I got the two science lectures and thought I 'll try and get a couple of arts lectures ,
8	Then I overcame my shyness and said I would like the coloured wool from the trunk upstairs .
9	Dublin said : ‘ I hope my first goal will now help me settle and show I can score more for the club and the fans who have been so good . ’
10	He had said : ‘ I hope my first goal will help me settle and show I can score more for the club .
11	This morning rang up my sister and said I would visit her tomorrow .
12	I gave him to Nonni who was clucking round the kitchen and said I must go and clean myself up .
13	‘ My husband and I have recently returned from our holiday in Czechoslovakia and felt I must write to say how much we enjoyed it .
14	That evening I wrote again to Mrs Girdlestone and said I would come and see how things were with my aunt , and if possible arrange for something to be done .
15	I felt shy of talking about my feelings with Terry and Tom and wished I could have half an hour alone with Brian .
16	As we sat in the garden behind his surf shop and talked I could feel the long grass beneath my feet with a sensual awareness I 'd never experienced before .
17	The clash of ginger on pink as a small skipper butterfly lands on petals of camp ion ; gorse pods popping in the hot sun ; small striped snails creeping out on to the wet path after a cloud burst ; soldier beetles gathered on the white umbels of wild carrot : these sights and sounds I can enjoy at my pottering leisure — whilst the hordes of laden hikers tramp by with stern faces and never a glance to left or right .
18	‘ But this gives me confidence and shows I can do well on grass . ’
19	I also told him about the new hip and thigh diet and said I could do with some more volunteers to try it out .
20	so I rang up the place and said I would like to go are you having another ?
21	Sir Sidney Barton was apprehensive for my safety and suggested I should join him and Lord Airlie on a short hunting trip near the Awash Station .
22	But I have been divorced 30 years and know I 'd feel the same as the man who was jailed if I found my wife in the arms of someone else .
23	‘ I might do the tennis stuff for three or four years and decide I can do it sleepwalking and turn to something I really care about and like to pursue , which is politics . ’
24	In the pages that follow I will characterize some of the more obvious signs of a badly organized and motivated operation .
25	I was basically told that there was nothing they could do about it , and that if I wanted a harmoniser that worked I would have to buy a separate rack unit .
26	I 've been looking at them every day and hoping I 'd get one and he knew that 's what I was hoping .
27	Well yeah , I 've had a come for one day , pay for a day and hope I can sneak in on the two day .
28	However , the head persisted and so I quickly racked my brains and said I would do the sort of thing I do in my classroom at home .
29	And this is the other aspect of Freud 's debt to Darwin which I mentioned at the beginning but said I would hold over for later .
30	I met Chapman on his way to the Zandvoort prize-giving and said I 'd take the job — basically to turn Lotus into an engine manufacturer — if it was still available .