Example sentences of "[to-vb] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also used to restore I breathing following a barbiturate overdose |
| 2 | And I wanted to pretend I had n't seen it . |
| 3 | I thought it better to pretend I had forgotten the incident , as if it were of no importance . |
| 4 | In the end , just to save myself from socking him one , I had to pretend I 'd been using the term ironically . |
| 5 | I 'd be a liar if I tried to pretend I knew the answer to that one . |
| 6 | I had to pretend I knew how to mark up blocks . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I just … wanted to pretend I 've got a garden . |
| 8 | In fact , the only social folly I committed was to pretend I understood about contraception . |
| 9 | It 's just that I like him and it 's silly to pretend I do n't for the sake of pride . |
| 10 | And I 'm not going to pretend I have n't said this . |
| 11 | I 've been trying to ignore it — scared to face it — trying to pretend I did n't care . |
| 12 | Not going to school , and having to pretend I did n't live on the island all the time , has meant that I did n't grow up with anybody of my own age ( except Eric , of course , but even he was away for a long time ) , and about the time I was thinking of venturing further afield and getting to know more people Eric went crazy , and things got a bit uncomfortable in the town for a while . |
| 13 | I had to pretend I wanted to go back with him . |
| 14 | Now with this one the one we 've just done you do n't really know how far to go I mean I might have been going to ask erm how long has he been travelling if he 's been riding for a thousand hours . |
| 15 | I mean I think if you 're not sure whether you want whether you 'll be able to go I mean you can still you can still be a delegate then if you do go then you 're able to vote so . |
| 16 | I wo oh , I mean I with Chris if I tell her where to go I mean |
| 17 | Well I mean when we to go I mean the tourism and they were just |
| 18 | I 'm going I get to go I get another go ! |
| 19 | With only one hour and 30 minutes to go I squirted out a cheap-looking burning skull design , slapped on a logo and sent the damn thing off with only minutes to spare . |
| 20 | She 's had a lot of ups and downs , Christmas , New Year 's Eve night Rudy and I went to a party , Pam 's daughter 's party , it 's her eighteenth and at quarter to twelve when they started getting ready to ring the chimes in , at midnight Wendy said I ca n't stay Joy I 'm gon na have to go I said oh alright then , I said I see you alright , are you alright ? |
| 21 | Mm , I said to Tony if we ca n't afford to go I said do n't worry about it , we might just go back down to where we went last year for a week because , it 's like I was saying to Joanne this morning , that this year they wo n't , they 're not gon na worry whether they do n't go on holiday but next year when Charlotte 's at school and got all her school mates saying oh where did you go and |
| 22 | Well , it must have been my day as with half an hour to go I had just got to the end of my swim when the float buried and the elastic shot out . |
| 23 | He went up there this year , I was up , this is true on God 's , I 'm in this chair he said , come on I 'll I 'm going now I 'm gon na get my , I had to go I had to go and get Rififi , a filly called Rififi I did . |
| 24 | Anyway , when I went to go I had to go to the desk give you a token , this token lifts the barrier up . |
| 25 | I need to go I 've got ta see her |
| 26 | ‘ I felt for a lot of years I did have a lot to lose , when there was only one way to go and that was down , and when things did n't go the way I wanted them to go I blamed others . |
| 27 | So I says , I I do n't like there I want to go I want to come back . |
| 28 | Oh , I 'm careful with the brush , I 'm careful , obviously with a brush and comb , I 'd hate to , hate to jab it well we 've got to go I suppose . |
| 29 | But er I used to go I did n't eat with the men you were n't allowed to eat with the men you see , it was only the full men that sat round this table well |
| 30 | I said to Cheryl please do n't go and invite to come to yours for dinner now and because insult us cos we 're not without him cos I 'm prepared to go I look forward to that . |