Example sentences of "[to-vb] i [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said you and I were man and wife , and to lose me would break or damage your bond with the King . |
| 2 | * IF * Wilko was ever to go I would want Strach as manager at Leeds . |
| 3 | If I had anywhere else to go I would leave this house . |
| 4 | I think you ought to go I 'll get you going real quick . |
| 5 | Well to go I 'll have se I 'm not gon na not gon na ignore it , I 'm gon na |
| 6 | I parked the jeep under a tree and then , looking at my watch , I decided that as I had a couple of hours to spare I would take a walk across to the other bridge where I had noticed a café on our first day into Normandy . |
| 7 | ‘ If you 've got a few minutes to spare I would like to see these fields that have caused so much bother . ’ |
| 8 | If there was water to spare I would smarten up and shave , regardless of where I was , and I might cook myself a treat , kippers or pilchards . |
| 9 | In the days when I had more time to spare I would read any book I could lay my hands on and particularly enjoyed anything about foreign lands . |
| 10 | One day when I have time to spare I must experiment with this method . |
| 11 | Oh he 's gone to the library to see I 'll have to get |
| 12 | I have to promise I 'll give it her back . |
| 13 | ’ I was thinking only the other day , ’ he went on , ’ that if I did n't have a wife and child to support I would throw in my resignation , take the voluntary redundancy on offer , sell the flat and go . |
| 14 | ‘ If you would prefer me to drive I can drive , ’ said the man . |
| 15 | So if anybody would like to write I 'll let them have all the addresses , there are about eight there , so erm , otherwise it 's just the urgent action network which is er a constant thing really . |
| 16 | ‘ If you ask me what you want to know I 'll see if I can tell you . ’ |
| 17 | It 's a great help to know I can rely on you for such last minute needs ! |
| 18 | Another Nottingham volunteer , Sue , said , ‘ I may not have lost a lot in pounds but it 's great to know I can lose inches from parts I did n't think I could ever reduce . ’ |
| 19 | I 'd been in the presenter role long enough to know I could do It . |
| 20 | Every weekend that they came to visit me would end in tears , and I was fourteen before I could manage without them , and before I stopped kissing my father goodnight . |
| 21 | Now I know there are some fish willing to feed I will cut down my feed rate to a dozen maggots only when I cast in . |
| 22 | ‘ The Masters is important also , but if I have to choose I would prefer the Davis Cup to be the next big thing to win . ’ |
| 23 | But if I was too drunk to remember I 'd have been too drunk to perform . |
| 24 | I work for Team Sport Scotland and part of my reignement is erm coordinator for women and girl 's football and I find that with the equal opportunities policies of many of the education regions now that more football is being played in primary and in secondary school and the district councils I go to visit I would say that the majority of them are definitely wanting to put money into promoting girl 's and women 's football . |
| 25 | He also had the cheek to suggest I should move into a flat nearer town . |
| 26 | When it comes to choosing which machine to buy I would suspect that our requirements would be rather different from your own . |
| 27 | In your letter dated Tue , 18 Jan 94 10:25:54 MET , you wrote : If I thought Wilko was going there with the intent to win I might feel a little happier , but with the form as it is I think we 'll wind up in one of those boring 1–0 or 2–0 defeats where nothing exciting happens in the game . |
| 28 | ‘ When we 're ready to leave I 'll go to the clinic , get my passport out of the desk and meet you at the airport . |
| 29 | If you want to leave I 'll understand , but you 're the only one I can trust now . ’ |
| 30 | But do n't forget this this is a very important time with the all the increase coming in they 've got a helluva lot to take on , not just learning the company but they got the new routes and everything and it 's going to leave I would 've thought very short in an exceptionally busy period |