Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [conj] i [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd refuse them admission altogether if I could afford to lose the business . ’ |
| 2 | I 'd go to the SS Great Britain and sit by the breezy river , and I 'd compose my stupid self and compose my story so that I could tell lies confidently instead of giving myself away . |
| 3 | I would like to fit a built-in dual-fuel hob in my kitchen so that I can cook with both gas and electricity . |
| 4 | When a kestrel I was looking after died recently , I put it in the freezer so that I can use it for ‘ spares ’ if necessary . |
| 5 | So that basically is it how would we see the course 's structure I do n't think we 've got time to do that today I wanted really to just to throw some ideas with you good folks and get the benefit of your thoughts and experience so that I could go back to Napier and say this is what my committee says |
| 6 | I know many children and I enjoy looking after them I plan to do this for my career as I have applied to Suffolk College for a place in the Nursery Nursing course so that I can go on to be a Nanny . |
| 7 | ‘ Just take these other duties off my shoulders and give me a day a week for the next year to attend a decent training course so that I can master it , and I 'm yours . ’ |
| 8 | who speaks to you , er it 's easy enough to just er have the microphone handy that they do n't see and just switch the tape on and I 'll record what they 're saying , come away , see , do it secretly like that , they do n't have to know really that they 're on tape and it does n't really matter , I mean the people who will listen to these tapes are er anonymous you know |
| 9 | And my pictures were upside down but I could see the rings of Saturn with it , which was more than what Galileo saw first when he looked , he thought there was two stars at either side of Saturn . |
| 10 | I catapulted the tiny beasts across the creek and into the mud on the far side so that I could have funerals . |
| 11 | She was talking very softly and I yelled at her ‘ Do please talk so that I can understand you ’ in a very irritated voice . |
| 12 | At one time my major ambition was to have my father buy me an excavator so that I could make really big dams . |
| 13 | Later I put one on the wall of my study so that I could watch these changes in my appearance . |
| 14 | I should be grateful for a prompt reply so that I can present it to the Parish Council at their next meeting on 27th August . |
| 15 | I should be grateful for a prompt reply so that I can report on this to the next meeting of the Parish Council on 16th July . |
| 16 | I get into a No Smoking carriage and , since the station interior is rather dark , switch on a light so that I can read Berlioz . |
| 17 | I suggested that it might be a good idea to get it in midsummer so that I could get plenty of practice in before the skiddy weather set in , but he thought there might be too much tourist traffic going through the town and on the roads around it in the middle of the summer . |
| 18 | Determined to shoot one with a really fine head , I decided to spend a night near the mountain-top so that I could hunt for them in the early morning before they lay up for the day . |
| 19 | hoping he would n't ask me to turn the telly over and I 'd have to get up . |
| 20 | It finally bit me , twisting its neck more than I would have thought possible and catching my right index finger right on the knuckle . |
| 21 | pass my handbag up and I 'll give you that money for the cat food . |
| 22 | Go on , Hepzibah , I 'm strong as a horse now and I could do with some air . ’ |
| 23 | I 'll leave that gap there and I 'll crossed out six , eight tiles there , OK ? |
| 24 | What I was going to tell him , if he was to come over , take my car there when I 'd have taken this car over , I would have had a car to come back . |
| 25 | It would make the writing of this chapter easier if I could call a halt on this discussion of the relationship between dramatic playing and performance and change the topic . |
| 26 | Plus Thomas 's wedding an'all and I 'd like to buy him a decent present like considering His flat 's nice . |
| 27 | ‘ It would have been another 17 or 18 years before we could have had this vote again and I would have lost my chance . ’ |
| 28 | At least they had told me of their bad luck already or I might have succumbed to the old tales of women on ships and the bad omens they can bring . |
| 29 | He rings you up and goes he goes hello it 's Jonathan and you go oh right hello Jonathan and he does n't say anything so you talk to him for about half an hour or so and then you go alright Jonathan , better go , you know and then he goes no no I 've got something to tell you and you go oh alright what is it then and he goes I ca n't remember it man , just talk to me for a bit longer and I 'll remember it then and it goes on like that for hours and hours and it 's so boring . |
| 30 | ‘ I run the kitchen just as I would run it in a hotel or restaurant , ’ he says . |