Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pron] i [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sapt talked to me for three hours about what I must do and what I must say , what I liked and what I did n't like . |
| 2 | There 's a telephone on the wall just by my table and I think for a bit about who I 'd like to phone . |
| 3 | To escape this branding of myself as a bodily failure , I longed to be able to attach myself to an organisation stronger than myself , an association through which I could derive a feeling of physical achievement and personal status I would not otherwise possess . |
| 4 | Every evening , as I lift my key towards the lock of my own front door , the same thoughts formulate themselves — the same sudden loss of courage , in my case , the same leaden fear about what I shall find . |
| 5 | Write Ellen and by express even telegram for which I will pay in order that I might have the relief of knowing you have understood and all is clear . |
| 6 | Yeah we should get sixty pound for them I should think . |
| 7 | Well erm you see although I learned shorthand and typing it was better money and that was the reason I had to do it , I 've passed my exams in shorthand but er probably there were n't enough offices then to employ a good many clerks , but erm they er it was a very big fellow who used to ring the bell and the bell was on the outside , he was named Tom but I ca n't for the life of me think erm what his other name was but , erm it used to put the fear through us I can tell you if we were around the corner and we heard that bell ringing but erm they , they were a good firm to work for and , but they were strict but everywhere was strict in those days , we had to accept it but it was a long long hours , but erm they knew I had some , I , I enjoyed it and I 'd go back again only I 'm too old . |
| 8 | I came away from the Oxford seminar with a clear idea in my mind about what I should do to stimulate discussion on this subject in Wales . |
| 9 | ‘ Maybe if I played with another side I 'd get more recognition for what I can do . |
| 10 | I decided to make one last attempt after which I would start looking for a place from where I could obtain a map of the city . |
| 11 | Well I suppose erm well I I I I mean I remember er ludicrous really , sort of thinking of what I would say at the Tory party conference while I was lying in that hospital in Venice . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's no good thinking of what I might have done , Carrie . |
| 13 | Perhaps the slightest pleasure of which I can conceive is that of sucking a boiled sweet . |
| 14 | As with other books I have collaborated on , I was particularly fortunate in having a co-author with whom I could work closely and well , though not without disagreements . |
| 15 | I have always had very limited sympathy with what is rather mis misdescribed in my er er view , as industrial action , but there is one in history , one instance of industrial action with which I must tell Your Lordships I feel an increasing sympathy . |
| 16 | IMHO there are only 3 possible contenders from what I would call the ‘ managerial school ’ : |
| 17 | I would begin Spanish now just to reassure myself that I expected a future in which I could pick up past threads . |
| 18 | The Irish have settled into this country and there are communities of them all over do they go and see your concerts and if they do that must mean a great deal to them I should think ? |
| 19 | Well I went and worked in a factory for about nine months I suppose , and the man himself , cos it was casting , brass castings , the man himself says , he says look son , this job 's no good to you I 'll tell you that . |
| 20 | Perhaps , too , he may have believed that once the gloss on my love affair dimmed , his money would act as a reminder of the comforts to which I could return . |
| 21 | However , while this tells us how not to solve the problem , it is less clear what positive steps we are to take — a dilemma to which I shall return later in the chapter . |
| 22 | Is there no gentleman or lady of virtue in this neighbourhood to whom I may fly only till I can find a way to get to my poor father and mother ? |
| 23 | Not all objectors to the Hinkley C plan supported such a straightforward advocacy of coal , especially with the growing problems of acid rain pollution and the greenhouse effect to which I shall return in Part Three . |
| 24 | Non-tidal and desperately steep , they 'll be too hard for an old fart like me ; but round the corner is a huge , blocky , roofed sweep of rock on which I 'd reckon to stand a chance . |
| 25 | They had been thinking of a job in Parma to which I would commute daily ; but this one sounded very interesting , something after my own heart . |
| 26 | If you want to make a fight of it I should warn you that they were not his to give . |
| 27 | And yet I risked everything I had worked towards , all the hope of what I might do in a position of real power , for something that was obviously doomed to failure from the start . |
| 28 | ‘ By the look of it I would think so . ’ |
| 29 | For instance Balibar ( 1970 , p. 214 ) writes that the ‘ double function ’ of the capitalist ( at once exploiter of labour power and organiser of production ) ‘ is an index of what I shall call the double nature of the division of labour in production ( the ‘ technical ’ division of labour and the ‘ social ’ division of labour ) . ’ |
| 30 | But rigging and sails did , and once I was on deck , coiling and sorting the ropes and making notes of what I would need , I barely noticed anything else , time slipping by and my mind so concentrated on the job that I barely felt the wind force rising , small frozen particles of snow driving almost horizontally . |