Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [conj] i [vb base] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had hinted as much more than once , just vaguely , just enough to entice me so that I want to ask what , so that he knows that I want to ask . |
| 2 | I am not happy when something unfair happens to someone else and I try to stand up for what is right . |
| 3 | She alerts the reader in her introduction to what she finds offensive in these genteel concoctions of tea and adultery : … if a comic charlady obtrudes upon the action of a real novel , I will fling the novel against the wall amidst a flood of obscenities because the presence of such a character as a comic charlady tells me more than I wish to know about the way her creator sees the world . |
| 4 | " Why on earth do n't you back me up when I try to get rid of him , mother ? " |
| 5 | On one occasion a New Bradwell man , having been unsuccessful in boarding the first two ‘ buses to Bradwell at lunch time , expostulated ‘ I 'll get a seat on the next one even if I have to stand up ’ needless to say he never lived that statement down . |
| 6 | Say them now for I want to hear them . |
| 7 | Come on car , do n't start playing on me now when I want to get home . |
| 8 | Oh , yes , I know I 've got tomorrow off as well , but David 's off today too , and he 's promised to ferry me around if I need to go from place to place . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I have to be getting along now , Lee , that 's the damp man and I 'm going to leave him here while I go to visit a dear friend round the corner . |
| 10 | The situation has thrown me a bit and I shall be talking to him again because I want to know exactly what 's going on . |
| 11 | I 'm with you yeah , see Sam 's got some learning , when he comes to spellings to me , again I would , I would print yeah , he only scrawled that down last night , he says I 've got some spellings on sports mum , I said do you know any of 'em ? , he said no , I said when 's you test ? , he says Friday , well I got ta book on all sports and then I read it because sports and you think hockey 's one of them , oh yeah , racket , which is spelt wrong I 've had to , I think it 's got a U in , but again I mean sometimes , I mean I 'm a good speller , I do n't know about you , but I look at them sometimes and I have to go and get the dictionary have to check em |
| 12 | ‘ I like it here and I want to stay for a while . ’ |
| 13 | I 'm doing it tomorrow cos I want to leave it a little bit |
| 14 | try it again and I want to do two things for the rest of the morning . |
| 15 | See John when he we as soon as John arrived he said to me will you take me he said , I do n't wan na learn it proficiently but I want to know every job so I then took |