Example sentences of "that i [vb mod] [vb infin] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the things that I would like for my birthday . |
| 2 | I append a list of the 15 drawings that we should like to borrow , and should be grateful if you would assign individual values to them so that I may arrange for them to be covered by government indemnity while in our care . |
| 3 | I feel confident because I know I came out to help : directly , by leading them as well as an officer can ; indirectly , by watching their sufferings so that I may plead for them as well as I can . |
| 4 | This was a bit of a poser , but Sally-Anne , never at a loss , said , thinking of kind Uncle Orrin who would surely look after her and her three younger brothers if anything happened to Papa and Mama , ‘ An uncle took them in , but he said that he was n't prepared to keep a great girl , and that I must fend for myself , and find employment , which I have done , ever since . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I hope you agree that I can go for my regular swim again , Shelley ? ’ |
| 6 | Is there anything else that I can do for her cos she says she is in quite a lot of discomfort at the moment . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | What I had so far seen of Binbrook held no charms for me — it was bare , isolated , and I did n't really want to seek out yet another Met Office with another set of people to get to know , now that the war was over , and there was no reason that I could see for us to continue plotting charts and reading instruments . |
| 9 | Previous to the Revolution Ras Tafari expected daily that he would be imprisoned which , in his opinion , would have been the equivalent of a death sentence ; and accordingly he confided his will and all his available money to me in order that I should arrange for its transmission to the Bank of England in trust for his children . |
| 10 | Still , ‘ do n't be negative ’ means that I should go for it . |
| 11 | Various jobs followed in sales and marketing , with the shadow of my father always looming , together with his wish that I should work for his company . |