Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Serve the food properly or let me do it . ’ |
| 2 | To compensate , she took a secretarial course : ‘ So that meant I had something to fall back on if the athletics failed . ’ |
| 3 | There is a hand-out on professional telephone behaviour , a hand-out on the pleas from the switchboard supervisor , and also a form , a course form , if you could take that with you fill it in and let me have it back sometime . |
| 4 | The Citizen 's Advice Bureau has got a pro forma which if a person goes in and says I think I ought to be getting , I think I , I do n't think I 'm getting sufficient income support or I 'm going to apply for income support . |
| 5 | To me , in a book containing so many emotions , I find dialogue really important because it lets me know exactly how the character is feeling rather than leaving me to make my own assumptions which are often wrong . |
| 6 | Rather than decorate I think we 'll just |
| 7 | Rather than let me do it . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Go away and let me do my work , or we 'll be running on one staff nurse and half an aspirin . ’ |
| 9 | This time in the hotels I particularly noticed how many people of different tongues were also staying there — all babbling away and making me wonder who they were and where they had come from . |
| 10 | Sorry , yeah I said Mark 's gon na come over and help me dig it . |
| 11 | Did I think the big flanker was offside and did I think I was half-held . |
| 12 | off and said I want them back ! |
| 13 | you want to cut a piece off and let me see what it 's like |
| 14 | The vet also explained Luke had to get some weight off and instructed me to change his diet of cooked chicken and switch to a dried food called Eukanuba . |
| 15 | When I meet people I like , instead of saying more and showing I like them and asking questions , I sort of clam up , as if I do n't expect them to like me , or as if I 'm not interesting enough for them . |
| 16 | I rang Gerard up and said I think I 'm going to condense your typeface and he said yes , yes , condense it by seven percent , I do n't mind , which I thought |
| 17 | She rung me up and asked me did I want a microwave oven ? |
| 18 | Indeed I am always immensely flattered when somebody a long way down our hierarchy rings me up and asks me to do something which they believe I am in a particularly good position to do . |
| 19 | You see this is the thing that worries me because , you know , when I stand up and say I like what John Dreyfus did and I think his looks very good and I maintain the traditions of the Oxford University Press , I can suddenly feel that I 'm being typecast as being in the English tradition of typography as a revered art and the Morrisonian thing and the whole thing separate from , you know , a culture within a culture and a separate thing . |
| 20 | right , two things first of all I mean I think this is the first one and once Napier get it up and running I think it 's exportable |
| 21 | ring me up and asking I understand you Anyway to cut a long story short , he was basically saying well do you know of any computers ? |
| 22 | But he came back three days later crying his eyes out and begging me to forgive him , he looked like a helpless puppy . |
| 23 | But you can take it back and say I want my money ? |
| 24 | ‘ No , Nina , I was n't in love with David Markham , ’ said Rachel firmly , then , seeing that Nina was still slightly bemused , she added , ‘ In fact , I think you could go so far as to say I detested him . ’ |
| 25 | She accused her husband of fucking around and retained me to prove it . |
| 26 | ‘ When your mother came to live here and asked me to advise her , ’ he said uneasily , ‘ I naturally wanted to know some background . |
| 27 | anyhow that made me feel there was no future in Plymouth for that , so this opportunity came , I came and when I got here they did n't carry any sergeants so I would of had to move again if I wanted promotion , which I was n't prepared to do for this , mainly for his education , unfortunately the |
| 28 | I do n't want to come there and find I have nothing to do . ’ |
| 29 | Well I do n't yet she 's gon na come round and see me to tell me what sort of job . |