Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A moment later the wizard was standing over him , shouting , ‘ Tell it that if it singes me I 'll let the sword go ! |
| 2 | Yes I I would agree with that but I wondered , I think perhaps it should be the finance committee , I mean cos I understood that most of these these items are contained within the existing budget , because I mean the individual committees do have have the power to the monies within their own , and I it has it I would agree with Peter that if we have gone over and above the that the committee were working to but I understood that that was not the case , so I . |
| 3 | And he said but the way I 'd like to do it , he says I I 'd love to fight it again , with er with you as me agent , instead of , I 'm sure I could win it . |
| 4 | If he sees me I 'll stick with him . |
| 5 | If anyone from the hospital sees me I 'll never hear the last of it . ’ |
| 6 | I will bless those who bless you , and him who curses you I will curse ; and by you all the families of the earth shall bless themselves ’ ( 12.1–3 ) . |
| 7 | [ to BELVILLE ] Honoured sir , your last proposal to me convinces me I ought not to stay , so , with a thousand thanks for all favours , I will set out for home tomorrow early . |
| 8 | ‘ Then mummy tells me I ca n't go out and I 'll wheel the bike back into the garage . ’ |
| 9 | It tells me I ca n't bear to talk about him ! |
| 10 | I can not choose something as an end simply because a wiser man tells me I would want it if I understood myself better , because I can not choose ends at all by inferring from facts about my inclinations ; the choice of an end is nothing else but the spontaneous settling of inclination in one direction or other , and the honest or self-deceiving interpretation of its goal . |
| 11 | And and erm if I I 'm hoping I 'll like it when I get in there , but something tells me I would . |
| 12 | ‘ He tells me I wo n't be able to go on like this , but he knows how important it is to my life , ’ Edwards reasoned . |
| 13 | Something tells me I wo n't be seeing her for a while either . |
| 14 | My head tells me it 's good ; my heart tells me I 'd happily never hear it again . |
| 15 | Anton tells me I can have 20 minutes and then he 's sending the other two on to finish things off . |
| 16 | I mean , if I were to sell my house now supposing somebody came galloping in along before Christmas ooh ooh I want the house on the first of Feb and they 'd come and they 'd see the house and they say yes I want it , want it , want it and it was plain that they were going to want it and we started to talk money , as soon as we 'd got the solid block of money I want one O two you er estate agent tells me I can get ninety seven between ninety five and ninety seven say they offer me ninety six |
| 17 | My abuelito tells me I must call my baby Constanza if it is a girl . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I am dumbfounded that Ferguson tells me I could n't have spoken to Edwards , but the person I feel really sorry for is Gary Bull . |
| 19 | Common sense tells me I should get more sleep , as my work-load is quite heavy at the moment . |
| 20 | Econometrics appears to help in determining budgets , and in the deployment of media expenditure — but when an econometrician tells me I should adopt a ‘ drip ’ pattern on TV rather than a ‘ burst ’ pattern ( see page 115 ) , I want to know why . |
| 21 | Marvellous acupuncture , then shop at Selfridges for anti-wrinkle cream with liposomes , which flawless friend , Julia McKenzie tells me I should be using , ‘ by now ’ . |
| 22 | Jane gives it I 'll shoot you with my machete . |
| 23 | But I feel I should return just a moment to the matter of my father ; for it strikes me I may have given the impression earlier that I treated him rather bluntly over his declining abilities . |
| 24 | When he is sad because the world rejects him I shall place my paw upon his knee , and he will be moved and heartened and his strength will be renewed . |
| 25 | yeah , makes you I ca n't see what 's good its doing twenty years afterwards , the people had time to think about it and use their memories for twenty years , nineteen seventy-two it happened and they 've just sort of done it . |