Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb mod] i [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I feel that never can I join you , for I have found that I have left my training so late that it is ‘ work or else ! ’ |
| 2 | In fact we 've had an underwhelming response , I think at this present minute , and so could I put out the er , request again to members er , to consider coming to this seminar . |
| 3 | They 're over the river by this time , and so should I have been if you had not come so prompt to your hour . |
| 4 | ‘ And long may I remain so . ’ |
| 5 | And finally can I reemphasise that we have not come to any conclusion as to which road we shall go down on this one . |
| 6 | And now may I go to comfort the living ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ All that I have done today has gone amiss ’ , he says ( II , 17 ) ; ‘ Since we passed through the Argonath my choices have gone amiss ’ ( II , 28 ) ; ‘ And now may I make a right choice , and change the evil fate of this unhappy day ! ’ |
| 8 | And now can I see all those against ? |
| 9 | ‘ And then can I come back to Robinsgrove ? ’ |
| 10 | and we do have , some of this slides which , I 'll show at the very end , alright , but it means it er , erm , the first part of the talk we 'll keep the lights on and then could I ask you , you know to look and then pass it around like school |
| 11 | ‘ Wh-where else would I go ? ’ |
| 12 | And you then have to say to yourself , ‘ okay , now what — what sort of information are they are going to want and how crisply and briefly can I give that information ? ’ |
| 13 | And incidentally may I point out that the proper term for the external female genitalia is vulva . |
| 14 | There are many accounts of the death of Richard , this is from Darts History of Canterbury Cathedral 1726 : " The manner of his death is thus reported by Birchington and Gervaise , and confirmed by Geraldus , " That being at his seat at Wrotham he had a vision of a very terrible person , who asked him , in fierce manner who he was , to whom when he , for fear made no answer , thou art he , continued he , who destroy the church , and therefore will I destroy thee from the face of the earth " at which words he vanished . |
| 15 | The simple diagrams clearly showed the differences between Volvic and Spa water but nowhere could I find how actually to construct these dramatic demonstrations . |
| 16 | As well might I have risen and said , ‘ I will tell you what really happened , for this trial and the real issues involved will one day become the subject of a great novel , and I am a man from two centuries into your future who read that book as a lad … ’ |