Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] i [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you ask me what you want to know I 'll see if I can tell you . ’ |
| 2 | If you want to leave I 'll understand , but you 're the only one I can trust now . ’ |
| 3 | " You want to run I 'll run with you . " |
| 4 | if she wants to swap I 'll swap her . |
| 5 | My secretary said that Lindsay had just rung to say I should send over the goods ( our agreed coded message ) as soon as possible . |
| 6 | Money and effort that should have been devoted to supporting the ordinary people in Highfields has been wasted on power politics and I agree that it 's time surely to put an end to that disgrace now there is a certain logic in Mr amendment , it basically says let us put the implementation of council policy in the hands of the director of education , let him take executive control and let us take politics out of it and if I thought that that would do what both Mr and myself want to happen I would support . |
| 7 | I want to show I can succeed at a bigger club in the future and fulfil my footballing ambitions . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I had n't seen any show yet — all the books seemed to imply I should have had one by now . |
| 10 | Seemed to think I should have known it for myself . |
| 11 | ‘ Two months before the bullying started an appraisal seemed to say I could walk on water . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | When it comes to choosing which machine to buy I would suspect that our requirements would be rather different from your own . |
| 14 | You what you 're going to do I 'll explain briefly . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | I 'd like to think I 'll get better . |
| 17 | I 'd like to think I can call you at home if there 's something I need . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ They seem to think I should stand on my own two feet — which is only right and proper , ’ she added hastily in case he should think she was whingeing . |
| 19 | You throw insults at me left , right and centre , and seem to think I should say thank you . ’ |
| 20 | I think I 'm going to have I will have gained weight when |
| 21 | I mean I 'd like to get I 'd like to get some more pots and things for the patio and fill them up and I 'd like to get a trellis on the side of the house with all flowers and that on there but |
| 22 | If you 're in a restricted area and you want somebody to do something you ca n't get to cranes in there , you 've actually got to say I 'll do that one and then I 'll do that one . |
| 23 | I also I I also erm er what was I going to say I would take the disc but I ca n't find a way of getting into this machine actually it 's broken erm . |
| 24 | I was going to say I 'll ask Glenda on Friday |
| 25 | And they have to move to other industries , er productive industries and service industries and er communications for example which is very run down , and that 's going to take I should think , six to nine months of really hard work and suffering , and and a political clean up at the same time , because in the schools and universities for instance , er nobody could get a job in the old days , who was n't politically reliable , and all those people have got to be moved . |
| 26 | It 's just that , as a nome who is probably seven years old and feeling a bit creaky , I 've got to admit I 'd find it sort of comforting to have a few of the good old signs around the place . |
| 27 | You look the model for all virginal brides , and I 'm beginning to wish I 'd let that awful shroud remain in your case . ’ |
| 28 | It was then I began to believe I might have a future as an artist . |
| 29 | ‘ I was beginning to think I might have to be the one to raise the question , ’ she returned demurely . |
| 30 | I was beginning to think I might have an idea about that . |