Example sentences of "[verb] i [conj] i [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ And may I ask if she will be so delighted to see me because I happen to be a male member of the human race … ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It upsets me when I think of how they think . ’ |
| 3 | No , triumph will not suit me till I get to heaven … |
| 4 | He showed ‘ excessive ’ courtesy to the House of the Senate , saying once ‘ You will , I hope , forgive me if I trespass on my rights as a senator by speaking rather more plainly than I should . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Forgive me if I seem to be playing the amateur sleuth once again , but something else occurred to me the other day , which might or might not be of interest to you . ’ |
| 6 | They tell me if I walk in a certain direction for an hour I 'll come across a road and by the time I set my watch and compass they 've vanished over the dunes . |
| 7 | just tw okay now , just keep , stand here and tell me when I come to the good bit . |
| 8 | three million books on the shelve , and we do n't have time going properly at the price so we go anything you want , bung it on the trolley and soon as the trolleys full it 's taken away and another one given , and you poke around and then in the evening , you stay in a hotel overnight , and then the following morning , they get and you just sort of send up the money and they just shout up the money as we go , then , every time I get to a thousand they say one , two , and you say right , tell me when I get near three , and I 've got this erm , I 'm dreadful at maths , I failed maths O Level three times and I do n't think about prices , I 've never been more than fifteen pounds out . |
| 9 | He slaps me and I swear at him , growling now , guttural . |
| 10 | I remember once when he was talking about acting on the continent , he said , ‘ They like me because I act like a German . ’ |
| 11 | Oh when I come in she said will you miss me when I go to Manchester . |
| 12 | During the week he come back asking me if I forget about it and withdraw my notice but stubborn as I was I refused . |
| 13 | And as to Spasov and being saved — ‘ Il me semble que tout le monde va à Spassof ’ — there is still some comic devillife in him as he quotes the Saviour against his bible-selling saviour because she is taking thought for the morrow , and as he turns the gospel on its head with ‘ Happiness does n't pay me because I start at once forgiving all my enemies . ’ |
| 14 | That reminds me when I go in town tomorrow I 'm going to take one of yours . |
| 15 | There are five T'yungunz in the nest to feed , but if Steg takes too long catching dindins the young 'uns die of starvation ( as do I if I do without food for more than 15 nanoseconds ) . |
| 16 | Now correct me if I 'm wrong , I 'll look in the other r Excuse me while I look in the other room . |