Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] i [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I wo n't know that until I meet her at lunchtime . |
| 2 | Now we 're fortunate with with this that if I turn it on it 's very quiet but if any of you had and I 'm sure Jeff you 've probably seen it where you get some older machines and the fan in there rattles like mad and there 's nothing worse than having that thing rattling all all the day . |
| 3 | I suppose I knew what your reaction would be , but thought in my arrogance that if I presented you with a fait accompli , the sale of the land , your money back , you 'd be so overwhelmed with gratitude that you 'd immediately fall into my arms . ’ |
| 4 | It was because he told me he had seen a woman more beautiful than me , and said that if I wanted him as a husband , I must marry him at once ! |
| 5 | ‘ Alex felt that if I selected him for the Poland game , he should play and try to help us get the result before announcing his retirement , and that was Bryan 's intention . ’ |
| 6 | At the back of my mind I must have hoped that if I telephoned him in advance , Helmut would help in this way . |
| 7 | At first he was really quiet but I kinda changed that because I treated him like my brother by punching him ! ’ |
| 8 | And I do that say that because I want you to be feel my commitment to what what we 're trying to do here . |
| 9 | After all , he refuses to mix with boys of his own age , and rarely leaves this house except when I take him on my rounds . ’ |
| 10 | I swear to you that when I kissed you in Ib 's Club it was simply because I could n't resist the temptation . |
| 11 | Then , when I see there is the doubt , that when I tell him about the baby . |
| 12 | Your Grace will therefore be so good as to allow me to ask you most humbly for my discharge … seeing that when I asked you for permission to travel to Vienna three years ago you graciously declared that I had nothing to hope for in Salzburg and would do better to seek my fortune elsewhere . |
| 13 | I did erm , mention , I think on one of them which was the erm Tim , this is the upstairs , I did actually mention that when I saw it to Roger . |
| 14 | Yes , you said that when I saw you at the station , ha ! ha ! ’ |
| 15 | I knew that when I sold it to you . ’ |
| 16 | I asked that when I bought it of course . |
| 17 | She said that the increased charges to her , and she is totally immobile , except as I understand it from being able to move her head , the increased charges to her would be thirty seven per cent of her total weekly income of eighty pounds . |
| 18 | so Sure Start rang him up and said how 's your car er Mr , he said it 's no better now than when I fetched it to you , three oil changes since and two months since and they said well what you gon na do about it ? |
| 19 | It 's one of these things that sound much more complicated than when I explain it to you . |
| 20 | I can see the range , where it is , and where I want it to be . |
| 21 | Er , and if I said it about any television programme you had watched . |
| 22 | I make my living out of explaining things to a lot of dum-dums , and if I do it at all I expect to get paid . ’ |
| 23 | But erm so , so it 's difficult to know exactly what 's happening now , and unless I see it in the office . |
| 24 | I have just bought a Wood catfish , but I can not find any information on it and since I introduced it to my tank , I 've never seen it . |
| 25 | There was about her something inhuman , and while I saw her as fey rather than remote , I was aware of my own inhumanity : something in me which was arid and incapable of desire . |
| 26 | ‘ Knowledge , ’ he insisted lightly , ‘ I have to confess that I still find you an unusual and delightful companion — an astonishingly beautiful young woman ; and while I watched you in Wexford market I felt — drawn . |
| 27 | As I say , I only get 36 off the social and when I get it on a Monday , I usually spend 30 right away on food for the kids . |
| 28 | These I knew well were not what her whim had remembered , and when I brought them to her she said nothing , but put them aside , sadly shaking her head . |
| 29 | I had been horrified at his scarecrow appearance when I first saw him at the clinic , and when I met him by chance in Tala-Tala I felt so sorry for him that I asked him if he would like to come for dinner . |
| 30 | ‘ And when I make it to the charts , then I 'll have to admit that I will have owed it to the world 's greatest entertainer ever — Elvis the King of Rock . ’ |