Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [pron] i [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 How could I do that after what I 'd read in Billy 's bedroom ?
2 Oh no , I do n't think I should use all of them , about half of them I should think .
3 Er it seems it seems that there were a lot of students , from one of the bigger un er er top class universities which were handling this train , er but er there were quite a few er things done , some of them I would think dangerous .
4 They did not have electricity , it would be oil lamps and some of them I can not mind when gas would come .
5 Some of them I will try to deal with as part of the presentation .
6 Some of it I ca n't disclose , some of it would have been on the lines of : ‘ Make sure you do this or that ’ .
7 Sorry , when I say in the main , some of it I might , I just want to clarify with the quality committee as to whether they agree or not .
8 And some of it I can only get in Stowmarket anyway because it 's heavy .
9 Should you wish to discuss this with me I may be most easily reached via telephone .
10 But I will trust you , because there are few with whom I can talk as I can talk to you .
11 I enjoyed what little of it I could manage , though .
12 I should make it clear at the outset that I act as a parliamentary consultant to the Professional Association of Teachers and that much of what I shall say tonight will be based on the practical experience of PAT members .
13 ‘ If I 'd known why it mattered so much to you I 'd have tried harder to make you accept the truth , ’ she said , yielding to her own regrets for a moment .
14 Leave that with me I 'll I 'll get in contact with Steve and I 'll try and get this list sorted .
15 Colleagues , to all of you I would say , support the Health and Safety Review , come back next year , let's do a good job throughout the next year .
16 Among them are a surprising ( or is it ? ) number of aeroplanes bearing Cayman Islands letters , many of which I 'll bet have never been near that tax ; haven , the late Cap'n Bob 's pair of liquidator-awaiting , Bermudan-registered Gulfstreams , appropriately VR-BOB and VR-BRM , and a host of N-numbered machines which no doubt the Gatwick-based FAA inspectors looking for illegally operated U.S.-registered aircraft will find enlightening .
17 A a as you and various other people likely said erm a lot of people regarded it as a kind of act of erm racial er disloyalty I 'm not bothered about what race I am , I 'm just bothered about the truth , and the truth is that I think erm Moses was not Jewish well who 's to know , who 's to know erm as I said it 's a fascinating book and if , if you like that kind of detective story approach to history , you , you might , you might enjoy reading it , erm there are , i it raises a lot of other issues , many of which I 'll talk about in the , in the lectures , so I , I wo n't waste time say repeating it all here .
18 Some indication of the immense editorial difficulties that arose , many of which I may say were not solved until the , the Pléiade edition in three volumes of nineteen fifty-four , some of the difficulty I think is hinted at , at any rate , in a recent description of the state of Proust 's papers at the moment of his death , and I quote : ‘ Huge packets of type- and manuscript , the pages festooned with half-illegible addenda , and blackened with savage deletions which had swallowed up entire paragraphs , heaped the ugly little bamboo table that stood near his death-bed , and overflowed from the shelves of the table along the top of the nearby chimneypiece .
19 At the same time these original articles , which were generally sympathetic to the Princess of Wales , proved to those around her , many of whom I would meet later , that at last her side of the story could be told fairly .
20 I want time to look for my children , and see how many of them I can find .
21 Can I make a suggestion rather than re-numbering all those , its going to be quite a long job , is that from what I can see at the moment there is no reason why that ca n't be added on as a last sentence to nine anyway , cause nine says you records the outcome of the enquiry , .
22 Knowing general family traits provided a good starting point and from assorted references I began to get an idea of the species I could hope to find myself and those for which I 'd need help .
23 Ten more of them I might be .
24 I am becoming more and more of who I can be .
25 ‘ For good reasons which you may or may not understand , I desire to remain here in the wilderness away from those to whom I may inadvertently bring catastrophe .
26 After all , I had no real claim upon your attention , and I knew I meant so little to you I could be dropped at any moment without a second thought .
27 But in case he shall die in my Lifetime then I desire that my Coffin be made by his Son in like manner as his Father was to have made the same for which I Will he shall be paid the Sum of Ten Pounds and that in such Case the said Legacy of Ten Pounds so given to his father shall cease and not be paid .
28 On the other hand , it will not be the same for what I shall call " simple " things , such as rocks , clouds , rivers , galaxies and quarks .
29 ( No car of my own of which I could boast ) ,
30 I would have liked to have checked at once on the state of the horses , but I supposed if there were something wrong with any of them I would hear soon enough .
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