Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's a friend of Bertice Reading , who is working at the Prince of Wales Theatre , so I arranged to meet her at the stage door at 2 o'clock . |
| 2 | It would have been a foolish , bull-necked man who would have looked a gift horse in the mouth … so I like to see myself in a small way as following in his footsteps . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm one of those people who can eat and drink what I like and not put on weight , so I had to do it by weight training and build up the muscle weight , ’ he adds . |
| 4 | I was very hungry so I began to eat something at once . |
| 5 | I then could nt bear to listen to the radio for the rest of the half , so I decided to occupy myself for 40 mins . |
| 6 | He is n't here , so I have to take you to the hotel myself . |
| 7 | And one other thing : when I take my three-year-old daughter out , the child seat gets pushed sideways by the back-seat cushion , so I have to straighten it by putting a book under it . ’ |
| 8 | The usual stratagems and repositionings have failed to induce narcosis in me , so I decide to settle myself against the soft zigzag of her body . |
| 9 | Yes , that is what I should do , if I wished to match you in devious cunning . |
| 10 | Si tendria que hacer una cosa como ésa , me gustaria [ POSSIBLE ] — ‘ If I had to do something like that , I 'd like it ’ |
| 11 | ‘ My mother is almost here and she would be startled if I had to kiss you into silence . |
| 12 | ‘ And if I could make one more suggestion — if I ask to see you at ten in the morning , and you wander in at ten-thirty , you will be looking elsewhere for employment . |
| 13 | ‘ Then you would n't say no if I asked to take you in my arms under the pretext of inviting you to dance . ’ |
| 14 | If I wanted to do something like three add six I could put brackets round the three and round the six and it would n't make any difference . |
| 15 | I never knew his name ; if I wanted to quote him by name , I would have to get permission . |
| 16 | If I wanted to have something like that , I 'd get a good programmer in on the project . |
| 17 | If I need to explain anything at all , it will be for his benefit , not yours . ’ |
| 18 | No , I mean , there 's nothing to stop him arresting more British people , or er , any nationality , come to that , and saying well , they did stray into our territory , I 'm sorry about this , but er , we ca n't have that sort of thing , you 'll have to er , come and see if I want to release them in a few months . |
| 19 | I mean if you put your hand up to the sun you can feel it , you detect it , your eyes detect it , well you have detectors which detect them and , for example , if I want to detect something like an electron well then I can make a counter which is sensitive to charged particles like electrons , and I can allow these electrons to hit this counter and it will produce erm an identifiable electrical pulse and I can look at that and I can say this is an electron , or I can look at other particles , say , for things like helium nuclei which are called alpha particles , and I can make counters which will detect these and I can put a little piece of paper in front and I can stop off the alpha particles . |
| 20 | If I have to lift them for a match of that importance then I might as well walk out of the job . ’ |
| 21 | Not if I have to drag her through every court in the land … |
| 22 | Right people here at half past three , if I have to tell them about fooling about . |
| 23 | ‘ You 're remaining in that bed for at least another twenty-four hours if I have to tie you to it . ’ |
| 24 | But you 'll get in that darn cab and stop giving me any more hassle , even if I have to throw you in bodily like the little baggage you are . |
| 25 | I would save some money and then I would find a man to marry me , especially if I promised to bring him to London . |
| 26 | ‘ Supposing I offer to tell them about the Feargach Grian ? ’ |
| 27 | yeah cos I want to put them on top |
| 28 | And that caught the interest of everyone straight away er , budgeting , how to be able to look at banking etcetera , and I said well and I want you to do that first so I do n't mind mainly because I was gon na work wi with Anne about the , with the environments , and then it 's science , could n't cover with the with the environment that she would like me in tutorial to do and er she has n't , well it 's not her now , unfortunately , I think it 's Sue that is supposed to be working with me cos I want to do something on recycling of rubbish etcetera within the school and do a big sort of er project on it . |
| 29 | They brought , either bought them themselves or bought them posed to beworking with me cos I want to do something on diaries they 've got weekly diary , little |
| 30 | But some of my structure is unique to me , my history for example , and no one else can know much of this unless I choose to relate it to them . |