Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] i [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may regard me as an amateur but the fact is that , due to physical difficulties , I can not pull and twist in a horizontal mode and so I invoked gravity to assist . |
| 2 | I can not believe my luck that nobody else had the sense to carry you off but that you should still be there for me and that — ’ Well , that could be taken two ways , on second thoughts that might not be the thing to say , no ; ‘ my luck that you should want me in the same way that I want you . |
| 3 | Your article should reach me by the first Friday of the month . |
| 4 | After his energetic verse Cade 's prose shows that medium at its most laboured and puffy : ‘ Has my sword therefore broke through London gates , that you should leave me at the white Hart in Southwark ? ’ |
| 5 | They 'll finance me through a part-time degree or a correspondence course in accountancy . |
| 6 | Perhaps those of you , my readers , who are involved , like me , in curriculum design , might join me in a New Year 's resolution to keep our wishful thinking in check and face reality more consistently . |
| 7 | I had the radio on low , in case they interrupted the broadcast with any bulletins that might lead me to the new Night Mayor . |
| 8 | Lucky for me that I got out before you could entice me into the ultimate folly of going to bed with you . ’ |
| 9 | Enthusiasm for the idea is great but I wonder if you could provide me with the following information ? |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps you could drop me at the nearest bus stop or railway station , ’ she added . |
| 11 | You could cut me in a thousand pieces and lay them out on the street . |
| 12 | ‘ Your need 's greater than mine , ’ and then he 'd tell me about the new necklace he 'd bought for his missus . |
| 13 | If the authorities read that they 'd put me on the next bus to [ name of border area ] and keep me there . |
| 14 | What I saw that morning could spoil me for a sexual relationship forever . |
| 15 | After reading an article in your recent issue regarding older knitting machines , I would be interested to know if any of your readers could supply me with the correct manual for the KH585 as there do seem to be some differences in the controls of the two models . |
| 16 | I wondered whether there was anything in the teaching of Tai-Fing that could get me through the next half an hour . |
| 17 | Even before I had learned to walk my eldest sister used to dump me in an orange box on the pavement next to Granpa 's pitch just to be sure I could start my apprenticeship early . |
| 18 | She used to have me in a big feather bed with her … |
| 19 | My old mum used to take me to the fair there . |
| 20 | She used to take me to the local baths in Penzance sometimes , because my grandmother insisted I had to learn to swim , even if I would n't go into the sea . |
| 21 | He used to tell me about the odd trip to Eastern Europe on business . |
| 22 | I was his assistant and when he wanted flowers he would send me to the Old Covent Garden at 4.30am to buy hundreds of pots of chrysanthemums which would then be sold off at the end of the day , thus serving a dual purpose as decoration and a means of recouping some of our costs . |
| 23 | Gyggle would store me in a spare room of the hospital and keep me under twenty-four-hour observation while I was unconscious . |
| 24 | What I would find off-putting is the idea that people would see me as a divorced man 's bit of light relief . |
| 25 | He would meet me off the last train … . |
| 26 | I remember removing the name-tapes of the former wearers ( who had left the school ) with a savage feeling that these people had to be got rid of , otherwise they would possess me as a living person is possessed by a ghost . |
| 27 | I should have realized that Clive would dump me at the first opportunity , that he had in fact been looking for an excuse to do so . |
| 28 | I thought he would slide me into the strait-jacket right away . |
| 29 | My Higher Self was warning me that this project , though attractive , would take me in the wrong direction , and would be a costly mistake . |
| 30 | I could not pursue a conversation that would put me in the degrading position of having to ask Otto to fill in further gaps in my knowledge and understanding of my own lover . |