Example sentences of "i [modal v] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I want to allow a bit more time for questions so I 'll just end if I may with a funny story which , did n't happen to me , it happened to a colleague of mine , erm a young lady , who went to give er a talk like this to group of adults like yourselves and at the end of the meeting the treasurer went up to her and said do we owe you any fee or expenses ? |
| 2 | The I 'm your representative for the minster governors and I 'll be slipping out later on this evening if I may of the installation of the new headteacher , that will be seven minutes time so if you 'll excuse me . |
| 3 | ‘ I must at the outset declare and interest . |
| 4 | I must as a matter of honour remove all possible ambiguities of expression , avoid any taint of pretence , or dishonesty , or literary sleight of hand . |
| 5 | It seemed an hour , was perhaps only five minutes — and he left , saying only , ‘ I must to the arms of Morpheus . |
| 6 | I know that some colleagues are aware of this but sadly recently passed away and I must by the colleagues in the Midland and East Coast region er to thank everybody who put into the er the collection on behalf of the . |
| 7 | No I think I might in the box . |
| 8 | I think I 've suggested the problem now , and now I 'm going to leave the parties to think about would be a need for expansion , expansion involves built developm think I 'll under the circumstances I 'll give you er the the normal time , and I will adjourn now until two fifteen to have a chance to think about that . |
| 9 | So what I 'm gon na do is use the , let's see , it 's minus three , plus I 'll minus the square in B square , sixteen strand , minus four times the eight , nine C , well I 'm gon na do that , four times eight , nine C , equals plus nine all over to A , just two . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll post a guard . ’ |
| 11 | I 'll have to tell him that I 'll post the card on to him . |
| 12 | I 'll in a minute ! |
| 13 | I 'll in a minute . |
| 14 | So I 've just made a note , the next C S N T , I 'll in the report back from the staff consultative committee , there 's two or three things we need |
| 15 | I 'll in the eye , do n't want this waste my expensive deodorant ! |
| 16 | But if I do n't pick it up , cos if I do n't take it in I 'll in the morning . |
| 17 | Armed with the phone number of the vicar of All Saints , I determined to find out all I could about the mysterious stone . |
| 18 | My immediate concern on that first morning in Punta Arenas was to learn all I could about the ship . |
| 19 | I found out all I could about the various parties including the Fascist party . |
| 20 | Erm I 'd like just to re remind the county if I could about the question I did put in my opening er remarks that er we would like some view from them as to whether if their if their strategic exceptions policy is n't er ultimately included in the structure plan they would object to the principle of us er pursuing this sort of approach through our local plan . |
| 21 | And I walked as normally as I could into the playground , my private pain overcome for fear of discovery . |
| 22 | The quietness seemed somehow to be incredibly loud , perhaps because wherever else I have been I could at the very least , listening hard , pick out some distant sounds of life , or even the wind in the trees . |
| 23 | And Gregory : ‘ I found it a tremendously exciting challenge to depict the past as convincingly as I could for the mass-market audience of today . ’ |
| 24 | I had discovered all I could for the moment . |
| 25 | ‘ Not too good , I 'm afraid — I did everything I could for the moment , but his kidney failure is almost complete . |
| 26 | I watched the distant cloud from the explosion drift away over the firth , dispersing , then I turned and ran as fast as I could for the house . |
| 27 | If it had been impossible for one reason or another to use a boat on the water I would have done the best I could with a plummet and noted what I could see from the banks . |
| 28 | Cos I could with a bit . |
| 29 | I did the best I could with the five keys that would produce a sound and vowed never again to sit in a cupboard . |
| 30 | By the way , this was the period when I could to a milk shop for a hape'orth of milk , but it 's not the halfpenny that people think now , cos the currency 's been altered quite a lot , it was very trifling , but it 's true . |