Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] i [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their captain ( for so I must term him — though their forces understand no battle order and hurl themselves pell-mell on us like mere animals who must quench their parched throats with blood ) , a certain youth who is called Dulay to his people , with a trick of the eye that makes him seem to look at you and yet not see you ( and other tricks beside — I have seen this same swart creature climb a ladder into the air as if it were a tree planted there foursquare ) , we apprehended as he fled from our justice . |
| 2 | about fucking I 'll have a pint of lager please . |
| 3 | ‘ For tonight I will put a chair by her door , out in the passage where she will bump into it . |
| 4 | Er combination of both I should think . |
| 5 | So the very thing that was supposed to wake them up , the noise of the alarm bell , was turned in the dream into a wishful of now I can go on sleeping , okay there 's a bell , but it 's Sunday morning , you know , the bells are ringing , the church bells are ringing , I can go on sleeping , so they went on sleeping and they were late for the exam . |
| 6 | ‘ And if you do n't get out of here I 'll tell him you 've been up in the woods with a dog . |
| 7 | ‘ Whenever you wish to get out of here I will come and fetch you , ’ he said quietly . |
| 8 | For years I cut the grass — and living on water , grass grows at a prodigious and unnatural rate — and while doing so spent hundreds of man hours considering how I might stop it growing . |
| 9 | Soaring out thought the airlock into the Fraxillian sunshine , I thought of how I must have looked to nay people below . |
| 10 | I thought of how I must seem to them , the people I 'd grown to know . |
| 11 | The shelves are full of wonderful food at this time of year and I thought of how I could binge and throw up all day long . |
| 12 | And it gives a rudimentary account of how I can do this . |
| 13 | I am interested in leaving a bequest to RAFA and would like to obtain further details of how I can help . |
| 14 | May I appeal to anybody who might have information , or might know of where I can find information , on Alton in this period . |
| 15 | ‘ After the Kentucky Derby , we will make a decision on where he goes , but I 'm a Yankee and that might give you a fair indication of where I 'd like to see him run , ’ he added . |
| 16 | That 's what I 'd be scared of otherwise I 'd put one . |
| 17 | And it was made of a sort of very I would think cheap starched er cotton . |
| 18 | And I 'm angry that I 'm not doing anything , ’ so I thought maybe for once I could use my name — my fame — in a constructive way and maybe make it heard above that dreadful silence . |
| 19 | Just for once I 'd like to do what I choose . ’ |
| 20 | Just for once I 'd like to be able to do something properly , but I never will . |
| 21 | And I was thinking awful things — like how I could get my revenge … ’ |
| 22 | It 's probably a six high inch pipe underneath there I should think |
| 23 | Erm , I 'm in favour because I had a walkabout with therefore I would like to say on five point three the and on five point six I would like to say B can we just have some traffic calming on the boundary , such as Lane , Road ? |
| 24 | But for now I 'll go along with you . |
| 25 | For now I 'll leave this in your hands . |
| 26 | For now I would like to describe two lesser known parasites under the letter E that fishkeepers should be aware of : |
| 27 | But I do think if I do n't have a break , then before long I shall blow my temper . |
| 28 | I had five shots of local anaesthetic , and after about 10 minutes the surgeon pulled out this wriggling black larva and everyone burst into applause , but the photographer said , ‘ Oh , I missed that , can you put it back in so I can take a shot ? ’ |
| 29 | We 'll find , while he 's just finding that look there 's just one more item that 's erm a Christmas card from so I 'll pass that round so you can have a while we 're just trying to find . |
| 30 | I am now looking forward to coming home , and am thinking that a fortnight from now I should have arrived in Hong Kong . |