Example sentences of "i [modal v] [adv] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As my hair turns grey and falls out I must also put in a plug for senior sailors with earlier retirement |
| 2 | There is nothing I can do about that for he harms himself , but I must still behave like a dutiful son and observe a son 's obligations . ’ |
| 3 | Yet in the next sentence he says , " I should strongly object to a bar being placed on the employment of women " . " |
| 4 | That is a point of view which I understand , but which I should not commend against a background in which Parliament , when removing the unfettered right of a land owner to develop his land as he wished , thought it right to enable a land owner to get a second opinion if the local decision on his application was adverse . |
| 5 | I would never go out like what Tony was saying you know he does n't drink at all and like he 'd be in a pub maybe seven days a week but I would take a drink now and again and I might n't go into a pub once in a month maybe . |
| 6 | ‘ If I might possibly butt in a moment … |
| 7 | Much as I might personally long for a world where sun and moon danced together and all the trees clapped their hands , it remained intangible . |
| 8 | Secretly , I might still yearn for a bumper-sized twelve-inch member . |
| 9 | That 's so funny on the , have you seen that erm advert on John Smiths where he goes , , not me I 'll just settle for a can of John Smiths , and dandruff |
| 10 | Group pick up , which I 'll just mention in a second , and call forwarding . |
| 11 | There 's no point in phoning , nobody else 's mother will be phoning , they 're all allowed to stay without any of this fuss , I 'll just look like a complete idiot , and anyway , what do you think 's going to happen , we 're not going to have an orgy or anything . ’ |
| 12 | fact if you do n't inhale at all you 're doing yourself a big favour , but you nearly always get some down ion to the system and really the o the only thing I could ethically recommend as a doctor , is stopping . |
| 13 | This was something so endearing I could n't speak for a moment . |
| 14 | I could n't cope with a relationship that was so physical , I started to freeze up when you touched me . |
| 15 | Oh I could n't walk through a wood on a night time . |
| 16 | Peering through steamed-up glasses , I could n't differentiate between a sheep and a hedge , let alone identify the coloured rectangles of the course markers . |
| 17 | Putting his arm around his wife 's shoulder , he added : ‘ When I came down the drive to see you I could n't think of a good reason to give you for splitting up . |
| 18 | ‘ I want to have a full career here and I could n't think of a better way to do that . |
| 19 | ( All right , I could n't think of a footballing Z. ) |
| 20 | I could n't think of a single thing to say , but dimly realized that I now had my role for the evening ; I had done nothing to bring this off ; but I was to be the identifiable face of the campaign . |
| 21 | I could n't think of a better place to end this leg of the tour than Belfast . ’ |
| 22 | I could n't think of a good reason why not so I ushered him towards the stairs and told him I lived in Flat 3 . |
| 23 | I could n't think of a nice fellow to give it to . |
| 24 | I could n't think of a nice fellow to give it to . |
| 25 | but thing is there 's a lot lot of like Lee 's friends and that and they say well I could n't work in a shoe shop and I would n't work in a , and I say why ? |
| 26 | I could n't work in a car factory |
| 27 | One of the books I re-read forever is ‘ Robinson Crusoe ’ and another is ‘ Treasure Island ’ and these , to me , are the great examples of the plain style , I could n't write in a baroque style . |
| 28 | You 'd have to get rid of a lot of your assumptions before you could fully appreciate why I could n't live with a man I do n't love , or I do n't think you could ever understand why I ca n't accept to be maintained , to put myself at the disposal of another , be in another 's company twenty-four hours a day , share another 's pleasures and pains — and so on . ’ |
| 29 | I said that if I was going to get into the guitar business , I 'd got to make a highly precision piece — I could n't live with a 32nd or 16th of an inch tolerance and then have some old violin maker filling up the gap with plastic wood , or just leaving a huge crack around the joint as some people do , I had to find a way of making precision wood parts . |
| 30 | I said that if I was going to get into the guitar business , I 'd got to make a highly precision piece — I could n't live with a 32nd or 16th of an inch tolerance and then have some old violin maker filling up the gap with plastic wood , or just leaving a huge crack around the joint as some people do , I had to find a way of making precision wood parts . |