Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb base] [vb pp] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was always a bad correspondent , ’ berated Lear , ‘ but surely you are still more unconscientious , for when I do write , you answer me by a short scrawl — only one word of which out of every 2d can I decipher , & I have kept your last and only epistle to see if I ca n't sell it as an ancient hieroglyphic . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't know anything except I 've done something unforgivable and you have to help me undo it . |
| 3 | Then you go back and you think : ‘ Well , although I 've done my best , maybe I have to find that little bit extra as a black person . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I am treated as a big failure to my parents and am seen as unworthy , although I have done nothing wrong . ’ |
| 5 | I was going to , one of the , the many things that I went to away last meeting with was , was the idea of , that I 've missed it this time for Playback is a list , a listings kind of mechanism , so obviously this is the first one |
| 6 | ‘ It 's true that I 've given my personal backing to Kevin Keegan in our search for players , but we have to be realistic . |
| 7 | So know that , if you now refer back to the , the book that I 've given you this morning and if you turn to where it says okay it says stop here do not read on |
| 8 | It was so carefully written that I 've read it three times and I do n't think it says anything . |
| 9 | For all those who scoffed at the idea of my mastering anything complex like Excel , I 'm pleased to say that I 've bought my first copy , and it 's nothing like as hard as I thought . |
| 10 | I mean for example if they walked in the room right now I 'm sure you 'd introduce me so I 'm really saying is look can you give me a telephone number , I 'll give them a chat and in fact , by the way , if you do see him within the next couple of days or so please give him a shout , let me know that you 've been quite excited about some of the ideas that I 've shown you this evening , I wan na do the same thing for him , you know , nothing gained nothing ventured nothing lost . |
| 11 | I 'm not sure that I 've managed it all that well , myself . |
| 12 | It 's the knowledge that I 've got something tremendous inside me , and it 's got to come out . |
| 13 | You must realize that I 've got it all worked out in my head so that this does n't have any bearing on you at all . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm sorry that I 've got you all so worried . |
| 15 | ‘ But now that I have made myself available for England again it 's important to be part of this Championship . ’ |
| 16 | However , if my peers decide that I have violated our psychological contract then they , too , have great power to influence my behaviour . |
| 17 | ‘ You must believe me when I tell you that I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and discharge my duties as the heir to the throne without the help and support of the woman I now loathe . ’ |
| 18 | I have worked with leaders whose style is so totally different to my own that I have found it incomprehensible that they achieve results , but nevertheless they do . |
| 19 | I have continuously taken the view during the time that I have held my present office that it is a great privilege to be Secretary of State for Northern Ireland . |
| 20 | His Oxford tutor , C.S. Lewis , dedicatee of his first book , The English Game ( 1948 ) , told him : ‘ Though never a cricket man , after reading your book I feel that I have enjoyed it all my life . ’ |
| 21 | It is not that I have forgotten what other people are like . |
| 22 | I only hope the Season will prove that I have deserved your wonderful orchids . ’ |
| 23 | In a letter ‘ On her Mopsus ’ Leapor writes : ‘ I am to confess , that I have drawn my own Picture in many Places where I have described this unlucky Hero ’ [ ML , 2 , 316 ] . |
| 24 | This is the first time , speaking in this capacity , that I have welcomed my hon. Friend the Member for Manchester , Withington ( Mr. Bradley ) to the Opposition Front Bench . |
| 25 | My answer to the first part of his question is that in the few weeks that I have had my present portfolio , two or three times in public I have stated my firm belief that it is in the interests of the people of Northern Ireland , the police and the security forces — indeed , in the interests of all of us — that the law be applied even-handedly and that those responsible for applying the law should do so . |
| 26 | ‘ Not only do I find you quite extraordinarily beautiful , but I also feel that I have known you all my life . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've always been interested in the light comedy of life , so I 've created my own world , ’ says Doisneau . |
| 28 | ‘ So I 've got your full permission to take them away ? ’ |
| 29 | I am bespoke in the evening , but the daytime is free , once I 've done my domestic chores . |
| 30 | If I 've told you once I 've told you five thousand times , it 's all fluid . " |