Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [vb infin] a [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Herbert 's daily life at Bemerton can be envisaged from his book The Country Parson ( later published as The Priest to the Temple ) , which he wrote , as he explained , ‘ that I may have a mark to aim at ’ . |
| 2 | I thought all the world smelt of onions ; I should expect a writer to choose a less ubiquitous smell to show observation . |
| 3 | A policeman told me I should pay a policeman to escort me to a taxi . ’ |
| 4 | You will understand when I say that I should like a poem to stand as preface to your book , a poem which we have both admired so much , Thomas Hardy 's ‘ Afterwards ’ . |
| 5 | LADY DAVERS : Did I not tell you , Jackey , that I should have a wit to talk to ? |
| 6 | ‘ I never thought I should have a friend to play with and a pony to ride , Aunty ! ’ she said happily , as she got ready to go out and call for Angela Yatton . |
| 7 | Flavia said happily , ‘ It would be quite wonderful , I should have a family to come home to in the holidays all my life . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll start a publication to fill the gap — let's call it Stepping Out — which could possibly be free . |
| 9 | I 'll make a stew to take with us . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll send a waiter to take you over . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll bring a robot to see what 's really there . |
| 12 | Rather than marking the person down as a supporter , try a follow-up saying : ‘ Thanks , I 'll get a colleague to call round . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Come on , I 'll get a car to take you back . ’ |
| 14 | And I 'll need a taxi to take me to the airport . |
| 15 | I 'll have a word to say to her when she gets back . |
| 16 | Well one of the obvious pluses is that I 'll have a chance to do what I want to do when I want to do it . |
| 17 | Since you 're obviously a young man of ardent passions , perhaps I 'll have a chance to show you personally what I mean — and sooner than you think . |
| 18 | I 'm taking here about pure , blind betting of someone who is not attempting to exercise any skill but is just looking at the odds offered by the bookies , and pointing out — and I 'll have a table to demonstrate this in the talk I give at the Open Day — the way in which the rate of return on bets made in this way decreases steadily the longer the odds are offered . |
| 19 | Perhaps I 'll have a bath to see if that helps this backache — oh no not again — I 'll never get dry in time — |
| 20 | I 'll find a way to make you run in harness , see if I do n't ! ’ |
| 21 | Now I 'll put a line to do a transcription transcription goes in an appendix , put your transcription at the back of your work , in according to Appendix A and number the lines , so that you can refer to them in the body or wherever . |
| 22 | Perhaps I could wear a mantilla to hang nappies on the line ? |
| 23 | ‘ I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not unreal , ’ wrote Shaw . |
| 24 | Ooh then I went to the B and Q to see if I could get a blind to match , but I spent , so I |
| 25 | I guess his leaving coincided with my dad stopping taking me to Elland Road so maybe I 'm just been sentimental for the happy days when I could get a parentr to pay for the tickets ! ! |
| 26 | So I do n't know whether you want to go and see her rather than , I could get a doctor to go and see her and phone , . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'd give a lot to know what forensic evidence they 've found . ’ |
| 28 | actually we , mm , at some length and had a few ideas , erm I 've got an appointment with someone at the Arts Council in a couple of weeks that the Arts Council 's got a new fund called erm consultants in research and I thought I 'd make a bid to see if we can get someone |
| 29 | ‘ I never thought I 'd beg a man to do anything , but my pride has all gone ! ’ |
| 30 | Finally I dragged myself away , telling myself that I 'd get a chance to use it properly soon enough . |