Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [conj] i " in BNC.

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1 I ca n't take them tablets till I 've eaten something .
2 ‘ Give me sons or I shall die , ’ said Leah to Jacob ( Genesis 30 : 6 ) , expressing the anguish suffered by many people on learning they may not be able to have children .
3 I was on two bags a day when I went to see me GP and I was on between a quarter and half a gram when I got to the hospital .
4 ‘ Silas is still longing to go to bed with me , so you can wish me luck that I 'll get him there eventually — but in the right circumstances , of course . ’
5 The second time I tried to come off was when I went to stay with me sister and I took her DFs and just stayed in , y'know .
6 Mother actually calls me Lisa but I did not think that name appropriate to this strange meeting and anyway I have never liked it .
7 The pain did , in fact , return the next day , but this experience had given me hope so I persevered with the lessons and now I am free of the pain for at least 95 per cent of the time .
8 Well , it began with just when I got me money each week , 'cos I had a job , a weekend job with me uncle and I 'd get me money and I 'd just go out and score , get a coupla bags or something and then me mates 'd come round here and say , ‘ Can I do a smoke in here ? ’ , y'know , and so they would and they 'd give me a smoke for coming in here and eventually it started getting , like , from weeks , from weekends to days , becoming every day , like .
9 All the horrid people who would n't give me money when I was collecting .
10 Well , about , I do n't know how long ago but we were stuck under the table for some time and er eventually we could hear this whirring noise like , you know and er I , I was a bit more daring than me brothers and I sneaked out and went out to the backdoor , an and looked up and there I could see this er Zeppelin in the sky , you know !
11 Well , I 'd just been paid , so there was no problems about me having money to score , so I think I 'd just set me mind that I wanted to sort meself out once and for good .
12 I got to admit I did n't pop over just to offer yer some neighbourly 'elp , it was on me mind while I was there to touch you for the loan of a bob .
13 Oh ’ — he jerked his big head to the side — ‘ I never open me mouth but I say something . ’
14 ‘ Stephen probably saved my life , and certainly saved my sanity because I was one sad lady , ’ says Barbara , referring to her traumatic divorce from Ronnie Knight , who was cleared of a murder charge and then deserted her for another woman .
15 Would you please fetch me a towel and my cloak before I turn into an iceberg ? ’
16 Dinner parties are my dread but I go to them because my wife , Eileen , enjoys them .
17 No logical reason , he wrote , but that will not make me change my plans once I have begun .
18 I have made my plans and I must stick to them .
19 And then I came down to Kerry after my operations because I was er for my feet , I had to get them amputated because For the hardening of the arteries
20 ‘ And I suppose I earn my freedom if I win ? ’ said Rincewind , without much hope .
21 ‘ I have been watching videos of my fights and I have been making a lot of basic mistakes .
22 The cool water is around my ankles as I sit on the bank , basking in the warm sunshine .
23 I did n't have to stand up and tell the whole truth of my heart unless I wanted to .
24 I wish with all my heart that I could go back and change that time , but I ca n't , I just ca n't . ’
25 I never really appreciated the full meaning of the word ‘ vision ’ , until the day that I had felt so powerless to change the cruel reality facing my children and people in my community in Glasgow , that I started to wish with all my heart that I could go to sleep and never wake up again .
26 ‘ But I knew in my heart that I would have no chance against them and that they would be merciless .
27 It was a long and painful labour , and it broke my heart that I could do little to help her .
28 ‘ I could not accept in my heart that I had a problem , ’ she explains .
29 That affair left a permanent scar on my heart and I was afraid of reopening it .
30 I am keeping them alive in my heart and I want you all to do the same . ’
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