Example sentences of "[vb past] and [verb] i [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ A few years ago Graham Taylor , then at Aston Villa , rang and said I should join the old organisation . |
| 2 | Old Mrs Gardner , who ran the post office and general store — the only shop in the small Scottish village — knew where most of Mom 's widow 's pension went and suggested I should persuade her to sign a consent form , allowing me to collect the pension . |
| 3 | Everybody knew and said I should leave , but it 's not so easy to leave your home and all the furniture I 'd bought when I was on the railway . |
| 4 | And when I asked him what would happen if it got known he just smiled and said I could talk if I wanted to . |
| 5 | And as I became more intoxicated and frustrated I 'd throw open the bedroom window as the dawn came up , and look across the gardens , lawns , greenhouses , sheds and curtained windows . |