Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] i [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At 13 or 14 , I should have been taken away from my family and placed somewhere where I would have felt loved and like a real person . ’ |
| 2 | By the way , is there somewhere where I can freshen up ? ’ |
| 3 | At that time I believed that the United Kingdom would be facing severe economic problems in the future , and I decided that I wanted to work somewhere where I could serve the community , and make a contribution to the resolution of those problems . |
| 4 | I replied rather coldly that I had not drunk alcohol since 1939 , and that it had been my hope that we should stop somewhere where I could wash up generally , relieve myself and have a little rest . |
| 5 | I decided to abandon my earlier plan of just walking around until dawn and instead to try and find somewhere where I could get some sleep . |
| 6 | ‘ You will speak to me politely or I will split my men here into two football teams with you as the ball . |
| 7 | ‘ Get his boots off and get him below or I 'll sail the lot of you straight into the reef . ’ |
| 8 | Yeah I would s I would guess so or I would think so as well . |
| 9 | Do you know if such a list exists and if so where I might get hold of it ? |
| 10 | ‘ If we 've been doing lessons all morning , they 've usually had enough by the afternoon , so we 'll sing some songs together or I 'll tell them a story . |
| 11 | ‘ She comes in first thing , but steer clear until about nine o'clock so I can have a chance to explain things . ’ |
| 12 | I 've gone to see my favourite players play — I 'd see them one night and they 'd be phenomenal and I 'd like the show so much that I would go the next night , drive two hours to see it and it would suuuuck ! and that 's just the way it is . ’ |
| 13 | So although I 'd assume a potential audience of mainly women who 'd be interested in this topic , the programme actually distanced that audience by addressing a hypothetical man who 'd think it rather ‘ odd ’ to select women candidates at all . |
| 14 | ‘ He asked especially that I should meet you . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I still rate the Alembics , though , and below that I would say carbon graphite models , in terms of longevity and playing consistency . |
| 16 | Although my certificate in Sociology had not yet come , I knew that my next and most important study must be Theology , only so I could understand the situation that my children would face in the future , and other people 's children would have to meet as well . |
| 17 | Many of the Dublin deaf have a smattering of BSL and can talk to me better than I can talk to them . |
| 18 | And , I that one , I 'll tell you what , you know , ooh god , no , yes , yes , leave it at that , I better than I 'd deserve to be . |
| 19 | Much better than I could have been in the role . |
| 20 | Well maybe it 's not really right , but , but perhaps that I 'd have thought it would be alright . |
| 21 | It will be said perhaps that I should have combined some principle of conduct with propositions about the flavours . |
| 22 | Also , academic life had not exactly left me well-off and it seemed like a good idea to try to earn a slightly larger salary so that I would have something to put towards my eventual retirement . |
| 23 | ) At school , so that I would have time to practise two hours a day , by the age of 15 , I had been allowed to drop Latin ( Greek did not at any point arise ) and Maths . |
| 24 | The plan was to look back at intervals after leaving camp to see how long it took for various features of the Land Rover to disappear , so that I would know how much longer there was to walk when they reappeared in the evening . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I like to rehearse the bad things so that I 'll know how to behave when they really happen . ’ |
| 27 | Erm so that I 'll have oh plenty of gathers you see but the pole will be smooth . |
| 28 | So you just watch out for everything for me , and take notice , so that I 'll catch up . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Arriving at the podium to a standing ovation , Jesse asked for the house lights to be raised — ‘ so that I may speak unto the people ’ . |