Example sentences of "[coord] i [modal v] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would make comments about them ‘ in the same way you or I would comment on a pretty girl and a wonderful pair of knockers ’ . |
| 2 | Or I can go for a brand new what I 've had before , you know not the special edition |
| 3 | At this point in the proceedings I was offered a choice ; either I would have to undergo a major operation , knowing that the surgeon did not know what was wrong , or I could go into a residential physiotherapy hospital , Farnhan Park , one of the largest of its kind in England . |
| 4 | You can see er , at the top , of course the profits were down but nonetheless er , I think quite encouragingly , we have higher operational cash flow and I 'll go into a little detail of that later . |
| 5 | You hang around here and I 'll go on a head ! |
| 6 | You hang around here and I 'll go on a head ! |
| 7 | You hang around here and I 'll go on a head ! |
| 8 | And I 'll think of a function . |
| 9 | I have a theory that one day I 'll just be sitting there moving the pencil around and I 'll hit on a brand new character for a strip . |
| 10 | Let's go in there and I 'll put on a cassette . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You have them next weekend and I 'll look for a house . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ There 'll be the most almighty fuss and I 'll look like a prize prick . |
| 13 | So Liz , in particular , and I 'll join in a little bit , we 'll sort of itemize some of the aspects , just to remind you and , and focus a little bit on this , and then we move into another mode where you get very creative and very constructive . |
| 14 | First of all we wanted that product to be totally open , and I 'll qualify in a minute or two a little bit more what I mean by totally open . |
| 15 | And I would realise with a pang that I had forfeited my right to concern . |
| 16 | I made him understand that he was to stay where he was and I would return in a few minutes with a tin of tobacco . |
| 17 | But it is of great interest , because it demonstrates a familiar mode of argumentation that has been more widely used in historical descriptions and that can be found in many places , and I shall comment on a similar case in ME below . |
| 18 | And I shall sell at a hundred and sixty pounds . |
| 19 | Then , just as I 'd half a mind to twiddle with the radio in case Marlene Dietrich was still on , there would be another lurch of the Tardis-like mood and I 'd come upon a garishly-lit motel , freshly shipped across from the West , or else be smartly overtaken by a monstrous new Mercedes doing 200 kph or more with effortless abandon , at least until the next plunge into potholes and waterlogged scree . |
| 20 | It was a bit of a squash but he did n't seem to mind and I 'd put on a tape of golden oldies ( stuff from around 1985 ) for them to sing along to . |
| 21 | Ooh your dad and I will sleep like a top . |
| 22 | Now it it just possible and I will explain in a moment why , that the necessity to avoid the greenbelt may not be exactly the same as being beyond the outer boundary of the York greenbelt . |
| 23 | ’ It 's no exactly my own idea of good taste and I could do wi' a suit that 's a better fit , but beggars can nae be choosers , as they say . |
| 24 | The inner side of the track was almost sheer at this point , brown broken rock glistening with water , and I could see at a glance where the rock had come from , a gaping hole oozing mud as though a giant molar had been extracted . |
| 25 | And I could ride like a red indian . |
| 26 | And I can tell from a half-hour 's converse with him that he 's in good hands . |
| 27 | Er I 've been able just this week to set up a little er programme at er at work whereby er I have a list of all the newspapers and T Vs and radio stations on a file , and I can tap in a press release , press the button and it would fax them all one after the other , to the various interested bodies . |
| 28 | On the basis of her understanding , it appears that any artist in the USA who uses the conventions of the mass media in such a way as to produce a critique of the media ( and I can think of a good many ) is veritably a ‘ quasi-situationist ’ . |
| 29 | Now in those circumstances , and I can think of a number of schools where that works very well , the governing body is a very powerful force , for links out from the school into the outside world , not only into business and industry , but also into the L E A , and it 's actually quite a lot of schools quite like to have a County Councillor on their governing body because it gives them an in to the L E A at a policy-making , or an individual decision-making level . |
| 30 | And I can remember as a child my mother had to go , my sister , myself , and my father . |