Example sentences of "[pron] i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I 've had a stormy relationship with everyone I 've ever worked with , ’ says Nicky , ‘ because I care about what I do ! |
2 | Everyone I 've ever been serious about has wanted marriage and children , ultimately . |
3 | This was a foreign land , peopled not only by my superiors , for that applied to everyone I 'd ever known , from the hole in Mother woman through which I was expelled to the hole in the Mother earth by which I 'd be swallowed ; but by those who were superior to my early superiors ; probably the most superior peoples in the entire world . |
4 | I do n't want to be one of the best in the world , I want to be the best in the world , and everyone I come up against is a stepping stone to me getting over that bridge . |
5 | I had lost faith , not in God but in the carnal love which so preoccupied almost everyone I had ever known . |
6 | If I go on denying it they 'll all wag their fingers and say ‘ Aha ’ and tell me I protest too much . |
7 | Even as he spoke to me I felt very uneasy . |
8 | Terry rightly told me I went down the wrong I was looking for names rather than the dots . |
9 | As they swung past me I looked again at the SPs and my hear gave a thud . |
10 | Karen came and asked me I says alright . |
11 | ‘ But Mrs Aitken told me I 'd just missed him , so I got her to make me a cup of coffee . ’ |
12 | From the loaf I have taken with me I tear off several pieces of crust and toss them one by one into the current , which carries them over the spot where the chub surfaced . |
13 | Trust me I said not truss me , trust me . |
14 | And he turned to me I said not likely ! |
15 | George , not unlike his subject , has spent about half his life in Ireland west , north and south he tells me I said why not Dublin and he says that 's what I meant |
16 | H. P. I remember one time , the inspector coming round — we did n't always see eye-to-eye — telling me I had n't polished my buttons . |
17 | " I sorry , " he said once again , in a hopeless voice that told me I had n't convinced him . |
18 | But in any case I 'd chucked all me things in the cemetery , you know , and that 's so when they caught up with me I had n't got any newspapers . |
19 | And something told me I had n't behaved too well . |
20 | Fey was something they would tell me I had just invented , but it is something that never left me during the entire period I was an Instructor and sadly I was to learn very shortly after he left Kinloss that he did not survive very long on the squadron that he joined . |
21 | Arrayed against me I had both the TUC-affiliated unions and the Royal College of Nursing , the professional organization representing the nurses . |
22 | ‘ You once said if there was anything you could do to help me I had only to come to you and ask . |
23 | There was a printed card fixed above the doorbell which told me I had about ten minutes before visiting times were up . |
24 | After the receptionist picked herself off the floor she told me I had better call in the fire brigade . ’ |
25 | She was not at all beautiful , but even with her likeness before me I had always assumed that she must be , since she carried such conviction in her forgotten words and her enduring appearance . |
26 | Cos it really has been extremely well managed , extremely well run , er not by me I 've just received the ballot papers . |
27 | Marriage will often be discussed with a kind of tolerant resignation as one of those burdens which have to be carried in life , the stuff of music-hall jokes : ‘ Since I 've had my wife behind me I 've never looked back ! ’ |
28 | ‘ But despite all the mishaps that have happened to me I 've never lost faith in the inner man and that 's why I 'm still where I am . |
29 | If he 's trusted me I 've never asked him to , and I 've never promised him fealty . |
30 | The youngest , the youngest below me I 've ever gone for is three years younger . |