Example sentences of "i [modal v] [verb] [pron] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I ought to know what the scenario was . |
| 2 | ‘ I feel I must show somebody the parcel I 've just had , ’ she said , greeting Ianthe on the doorstep . |
| 3 | We have dinner reservations at Romolo 's , but first I must show you the sunset . ’ |
| 4 | The person whom I was going to take over the job from said to me at the end of the meeting well what do you think of that meeting and I must admit I the answer and luckily somebody else instructed with some other business and I felt I got off the hook here but in fact that got dealt with very quickly and he came back to me and said well what did you think of the meeting and I had to say to him just one word , was the way I put it . |
| 5 | ‘ But you were right when you insisted that I must give myself the opportunity to learn my true feelings , although … ’ |
| 6 | There is a small part of me that feels that , on behalf of my right hon. and hon. Friends , I should welcome what the Leader of the House has said . |
| 7 | The low style is surely recalled by the colloquial " " Hé " " given to God and St Peter as noted above , and the high by the description of the young wife in Les Trois Boçus : ( a beautiful girl So beautiful that she was a delight And if I should tell you the truth I do not think that Nature ever made Any more beautiful creature . ) |
| 8 | ‘ I should do what the man said . ’ |
| 9 | I should get her the ballet shoes cause it was a ballet dancing that would be very appropriate and I 'll get her some flowers . |
| 10 | I had the strange impression that he wanted me to believe he was death ; that at any moment the leathery old skin and the eyes would fall , and I should find myself the guest of a skeleton . |
| 11 | The Government are always making predictions , and in that sense the Chancellor may be described as the Mother Shipton — perhaps I should call him the Brother Shipton — of economics . |
| 12 | I might erm I might see what the sleeve 's like , I might er er wait and see how much wool I 've got |
| 13 | They 're my designs , I 'll do what the hell I like with them — ’ |
| 14 | I says , I 'll go next week This was after three weeks , I says , I 'll go on next week and I 'll take over the job of yard foreman , and I 'll do it the way I want it done , not the way that . |
| 15 | I says er , I want to take charge , and I 'll do it the way that I think it should be done . |
| 16 | Erm I brought in the old flurry tape , I 've I 've taped I taped our when you 've read my play for me , I erm I taped it and I made a copy for Dave I you know , erm Cybil makes a good effort in that so eventually I 'll lend you the tape . |
| 17 | Yeah that 's eventually I 'll lend you the tape for that erm we can pass it round . |
| 18 | What I 'll do , I 'll pass you the box and then you can take them out a bit at a time cos I 've sorted them . |
| 19 | ‘ Do as I say , ’ he replied , ‘ and I 'll make you the best-dressed , most beautiful woman at the ball . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I 'll send you the tailor 's bill . ’ |
| 21 | I 'll send you the cash . ’ |
| 22 | They take you there for twenty P if you reg he said I 'll bring you the papers . |
| 23 | I 'll bring you the scissors cos you have n't got them . |
| 24 | I 'll tell you what , meet me at the border and I 'll bring you the ways myself . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'll show you the queen in a minute , ’ said Finn . |
| 26 | This way , I 'll show you the animal house . ’ |
| 27 | I 'll show you the cloakroom … ’ |
| 28 | Come down when you 're ready , and I 'll show you the rest of the house . ’ |
| 29 | I 'll show you the rest of the house and you can live a dream for a while . ’ |
| 30 | well , if you can get on with doing that thing , sit down and look through those magazines with me and I 'll show you the prices that I can get them at retail I mean at trade , all the prices cos I 've got that two and a half thousand gallon job and that is only seventy quid , so I 'm just gon na have one of those , I 'm gon na have that with a U V A filter and eight er eight watt U V A filter which is fifty quid , that then , which is for one of those tanks which is for three hundred and fifty , but that 's not , I 've that 's |