Example sentences of "[pron] i [modal v] [vb infin] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Annie told me I 'd get a bike for Christmas — a red one with a basket . |
| 2 | This told me I could have a flight to America , if I was quick , a copy of Flight Stimulator too ! |
| 3 | A policeman told me I should pay a policeman to escort me to a taxi . ’ |
| 4 | So I was determined to show them I could take a joke and the next time a big stork went over I pretended not to know what it was called and asked my girl . |
| 5 | It spoils them dear , you should n't throw them I can smell a smell |
| 6 | He wanted me have a go , but I 'm not no I I 'll have a go another time when it 's quiet , not when there 's be been showing me . |
| 7 | Helena , I do n't really know how to put this but I I 'll have a go . |
| 8 | I I I 'll have a look at the question . |
| 9 | I I would buy a bubble-jet . |
| 10 | I I would climb a tree where |
| 11 | I I I 'd take a drop of a hundred , yeah . |
| 12 | Apart from doing the job of Principal ( for which I shall need a lot of help from the Lord ) , and living as a Christian I do n't yet know what the Lord wants me to do out there . |
| 13 | He promised to bring me a few notes from which I could prepare a draft but he never did . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I have a stove on which I can cook a dinner , and a paraffin stove for heating . |
| 16 | Though I might , in working for a different future , find the struggle of women politically inspiring , I am unlikely to find a community in which women were not counted equal a medium through which I can gain a glimpse of God . |
| 17 | What I really want is to meet someone who I can have a bit of fun with , but who is in it for the pleasure and does n't want paying . |
| 18 | If you say no , the next time I see you I 'll put a bullet in your back . |
| 19 | Of you I would make a fuss |
| 20 | I tell you I will make a gentlewoman of you if you be obliging and do n't stand in your own light . |
| 21 | ‘ If I were you I 'd make a list of tall men and women in the village with bad characters and check their alibis , ’ advised Miss Tilley judiciously , one professional to another . |
| 22 | Kent or something I 'll take a chance and I 'll go this way and I went , and I came out there 's a garage on the way to Beckenham . |
| 23 | There 's a whole group on me then I 'm not gon na stand about erm , but if it 's a one on one I might stand a chance . |
| 24 | you get a bit of paint on it I 'd have a job to get it off so I take them off , then put them on just as it 's going off , you know , so you got ta |
| 25 | Dealing generally with the question of art teaching , when addressing himself to the abortive attempt to found a Fine Art course at Oxford in 1922 , he postulated that art schools should , above all else avoid , ‘ The temptation to consider the number of students as a test of success , what I may call a kind of moral and social capitation grant . |
| 26 | Good I 'm pleased about that , so I did n't really want somebody coming all the way down from the West End cos I 'm I , I 'm what I would call a buyer , I 'm only going to be a buyer if I can get money from somewhere that I do n't know you know what I mean . |
| 27 | When you walked into the well what I would call a cupboard but they classed it as the bathroom . |
| 28 | And he wanted to make similar remarks about our initial belief that though we use the same language and agree on the words with which to describe the colours of the objects around us , still we might for all we know see the objects completely differently ; an object that causes in me what I call a sensation of red may cause in you what I would call a sensation of blue , though we can never know this since we will continue to agree on what to say and on how to act in our differently coloured environments ( we will all stop at a red traffic light , for instance ) . |
| 29 | That much sooner and in the last hour , couple of hours we 've seen what I would call a Tweedledee and Tweedledum amendments erm because quite frankly there is n't that much difference between them er at the end of the day the impact on the people who 've had to pay the bill is virtually the same . |
| 30 | Next time we meet a Hun , I know what I shall have a pot at . ’ |