Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | I want to show I can succeed at a bigger club in the future and fulfil my footballing ambitions . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , I nivver said I could read Indian signs , but them 's some make of jeep thing . |
| 7 | When it comes to choosing which machine to buy I would suspect that our requirements would be rather different from your own . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | You throw insults at me left , right and centre , and seem to think I should say thank you . ’ |
| 10 | that and then , you know like if I get inundated I can let Jim do some . |
| 11 | ‘ I like to think I could do a good job at a higher level , ’ he said . |
| 12 | I like to think I can do what she does , but perhaps not as well . |
| 13 | He sat in silence for a minute then said : 'l think I 'd like just a small whisky now , Mr Dalgliesh , if it 's all the same to you . ’ |
| 14 | When they get married I 'll tell them to use family planning because prices get higher every day and it 's impossible to support a large family . |
| 15 | When I get married I 'll get a hat . |
| 16 | No it 's to much of a , I hate saying I 'll go out at eight o'clock and tell him to be home and at quarter too eight he has n't come and oh , I 'm to tired really , but , so I 've always played it that I will help when I when I can , but uhum , I do n't go on the committee , cos then your stuck , you 've got to go . |
| 17 | ‘ Providing I stay fit I will get the record because I plan to keep on playing for some time yet . |
| 18 | I work for Team Sport Scotland and part of my reignement is erm coordinator for women and girl 's football and I find that with the equal opportunities policies of many of the education regions now that more football is being played in primary and in secondary school and the district councils I go to visit I would say that the majority of them are definitely wanting to put money into promoting girl 's and women 's football . |
| 19 | You can hear them from a long way now what you do is you sit them down and let them take up their own particular position , you can , if they 've got their medication their Ventilin or whatever , you can put it beside them , they will know if they need to take it or not , get them with the fresh air and let them take up their own position which is usually leaning forward so that it expands their lungs , talk to them about something different because sometimes well they 've got to think of what to answer you , it 's relaxing those tubes , now if they 're taking their medication and it does n't work within about five minutes get them to hospital , because the only people that really die with asthma are those that have taken medication and keep saying I 'll give it a few more minutes , give it a few more minutes and if they 're getting worse and worse they 're leaving it too long . |
| 20 | I keep thinking I 'll put a padlock on , but I never get round to it . |
| 21 | So if my pens go missing I 'll know where they are . |
| 22 | Do think I 'll get five ? |
| 23 | something which , that interested me but I do think I 'll find it boring or something . |
| 24 | ‘ I do think I 'd like to miss it . |
| 25 | Ca n't wait to get this bedroom sorted out Do think I could have my desk ? |
| 26 | ‘ I would n't say I do think I can beat her , but you 've got to pretend you can . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't have any argument with the players who have received wild-card entries but I do feel I should have been one of them . |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't have any argument with the players who have received wild-card entries but I do feel I should have been one of them . |
| 29 | I do feel I 'd like to say one point about the people who were in this house , that it 's quite clear , all of them I believe were under care of the social services , erm and I do n't know enough about their history to say whether they , where they 've been before , whether they 've been in some half-way house , or just been thrown out of some mental institution . |
| 30 | If one of my staff had done the same thing I do believe I 'd have fired him . |