Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb mod] [vb infin] for " in BNC.
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1 | If you could find me a garret somewhere near you , where I could live for the next three months , I could finish it , and perhaps get it Published . |
2 | Her nightmares had deeply affected Richard , and so Beth had told her husband , ‘ Either they stay close by where I can hear them should they need me … or I 'll arrange for the children , and myself , to move to the east end of the house . ’ |
3 | ‘ Walk with me , or I 'll charge for every swish . ’ |
4 | Bloody get out , or I 'll swing for yer ! ’ |
5 | Or I would apply for er , family credit straight away . |
6 | So tell me , or I will arrange for others to take over the questioning . ’ |
7 | Or I can go for a brand new what I 've had before , you know not the special edition |
8 | Well I think as an early potato Stefan , I would chose from Rocket for the earliest , I would grow I think for as well as that I would go for Foremost but if you want a real waxy potato it would still be Arran Pilot cos now whenever you eat it it got a strong taste , whether it 's young or whether it 's old . |
9 | Well Fred 's got my Graham Thomas because it really is a superb rose but as well as that I would go for hybrid musk and I think of all the hybrid musk , my favourite is Felicia because of that silvery pink , lovely double shaped flower and that is very very heavily scented and I would have to have the bourbon rose the th the double white creamy white bourbon rose , if , you could almost eat that , that wo n't get more than about six foot and you can prune it to keep it in shape a bit if it begins to get too straggly . |
10 | Sun flower limping , water less vase , suffering eyes , desperados in caged , so from , from that painting I had a tremendous feel of something undergoing tremendous suffering and seem very desperate about the situation , and I did n't just see that in , in the picture of Van Gogh , but I could see that in the sun flower , so as , as a writer its images like that , that I would look for and open up and turn into characters or a way of portraying a particular mood , erm , the next one , were doing very well |
11 | Although it 's not a shape that I would recommend for a large picture , it can look very attractive used to decorate cards and calendars . |
12 | I also wore my own garments with pride and let it be known that I would knit for others if they wished . |
13 | For the things that I would like for my birthday . |
14 | I expected you to come after me , I prayed you would so that I would know for sure that you really wanted me , but you did n't . |
15 | I append a list of the 15 drawings that we should like to borrow , and should be grateful if you would assign individual values to them so that I may arrange for them to be covered by government indemnity while in our care . |
16 | I feel confident because I know I came out to help : directly , by leading them as well as an officer can ; indirectly , by watching their sufferings so that I may plead for them as well as I can . |
17 | You ca n't tidy up the house until after the fingerprint team have been , and I 've already told you that I 'll arrange for that to be done . ’ |
18 | Imagine my disgust when I told the car park attendant of the delays , only to be informed that I must pay for two hours parking , as ‘ That is what is on the computer . ’ |
19 | This was a bit of a poser , but Sally-Anne , never at a loss , said , thinking of kind Uncle Orrin who would surely look after her and her three younger brothers if anything happened to Papa and Mama , ‘ An uncle took them in , but he said that he was n't prepared to keep a great girl , and that I must fend for myself , and find employment , which I have done , ever since . ’ |
20 | What my Commander-in-Chief had to say to me is something that I will treasure for the rest of my days — and has only been shared with one other . |
21 | Please could you tell me something about this fish , such as how large will it get , so that I can prepare for rehousing it ? |
22 | ‘ I hope you agree that I can go for my regular swim again , Shelley ? ’ |
23 | Is there anything else that I can do for her cos she says she is in quite a lot of discomfort at the moment . |
24 | Oi think of a project for me that I can do for the next seven weeks . |
25 | In time these three will form a screen so that I can arrange for a complete change of scenery on either side . |
26 | It 's about lifestyles that I 've lived and lifestyles that I respect and that I can speak for because I 've been there . |
27 | The best that I can say for a personality explanation is that it prevents executives from thinking about changing their behaviour , because it understandably makes little sense for them to undergo some kind of therapy . |
28 | There is no ground that I can see for making any such substitution . |
29 | So it seems to me that what Williamson has shown in one particular case is clear evidence of punctuation , but no reasons at all that I can see for supposing that the mechanism of change was any other which Darwin described over a hundred years ago . |
30 | " D' you know " , he told me , " that I can ask for the check in seventeen languages ? " |