Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 So I took myself off to my billet , feeling bloody frustrated and edgy , might I add , and thence to bed , where I thought about it .
2 Where I differ from him is on the nature of the collection as a whole , which to me seems a collection of poems differing in method and indeed quality , written over a period of years , and having two distinct sequences , to the Friend and to the ‘ Dark Lady ’ .
3 Their voices can be heard throughout the following pages , where I refer to them consistently by name .
4 Where I come from it 's tougher country than this . ’
5 erm in the days when they had terraced houses back to back terraced houses erm well anywhere in the country I guess but but where I come from it was fine for the people who lived with their doors on the on the road but the people who lived at the other side of the block they could n't get from the road so every so often down the down the terrace they had a little alley way an entry I think you 'd probably call it in Scotland , do n't they ?
6 Where I work for you ? ’
7 Just to look at the cradle he had ready and waiting with its green cover there in the living room transported him , ‘ though it was only a hospital where she was lying and where I sat near her . ’
8 Whenever Eugenia or I went near them , they stopped talking .
9 I suppose I see her once or twice a week — she comes in for a cup of tea , or I go to her .
10 it was , it was actually there was a programme on television and my husband took me to the doctor and he said he felt I 'd been on it too long , I 'd been on it about six months and when I come off it , I come off it pretty quick and I ended up erm I did n't know what was wrong with me and it ended up I 've now got epilepsy , and they did n't know if it was caused through erm I took a stroke about three four month after that and then I got the epilepsy as well , so they do n't know if that me coming off it
11 ‘ You are a good officer , Merymose , ’ he said at last , ‘ and although I disagree with you about the capability of our Medjays , I respect your judgment .
12 Although I weep for you , he said ,
13 Can I bring you erm back to the U K and what we can do in the U K , although I agree with you , we need to be looking with certain organisations at regulation on a Trans-Atlantic basis , but from a U K point of view , erm the Good Committee Report has suggested that a pensions regulator should er be brought into being .
14 Without pausing , she hurried on and although I called after her she did n't stop until she had reached the other side and scrambled up the rocky gully to the top .
15 I greeted my cousin 's suggestion that I drive with him and his family to Italy for a skiing holiday with some apprehension .
16 ‘ I 'm annoyed about that , it was only when I began touring that I heard about it , ’ she told the BBC 's top children 's programme Going Live .
17 Axelrod had already begun to think in ESS terms , but I felt that this tendency was so important that I wrote to him suggesting that he should get in touch with W. D. Hamilton , who was then , though Axelrod did n't know it , in a different department of the same university , the University of Michigan .
18 Before I left , I expressed the hope that he could pay another visit to Oxford , though this time a purely private one , and I see that I wrote to him repeating this towards the end of term — the final term — because on 17 June he replied to my home address :
19 You will recall that I wrote to you in June requesting that this work be carried out , and I was given a job number ( which I do not have to hand ) , but no date for the work to be done .
20 I can hardly remember why I stopped going out with some of my exes but that does n't mean that I brood about them and their later and surely unsatisfactory relationships with men unable to hold a candle to myself .
21 Although I had seen you , Frankenstein , for only a few moments , I knew that I belonged to you .
22 Now in the period that I come into it would be the First World War , when we had er , of course in these days , the thing we always , to look at the motor trade then , it was a follow up from the carriage trade .
23 ‘ Do you want that I come with you ? ’
24 The fixed positions that I saw with you
25 ‘ He , too , saw through me ; I mean he clearly perceived that I saw through him
26 ‘ You 're suggesting that I go to him ? ’ she 'd hissed .
27 I do that new bit cos it 's hard that I go through it about eight times .
28 ‘ I am a rich woman ; he left everything to me , and so he should have done , after all that I sacrificed for him .
29 he used an illustration of the pig , you know you can polish the pig up , you can clean it , you can scrub it , you can oh de cologne it , you can do all sorts of things with it , you can tie a nice pink ribbon around it and you can put it in a palace , but it 's still a pig and it lives like a pig and you can cl and no matter how clean you 've made it , it 'll soon find some dirt to wallow in and the ribbon might make it look nice in the show ground but it does n't make any difference to its nature and so it is with us and so Jesus did n't start on the outside , but he starts at the inside he deals with the route of the problem , in One Corinthians chapter fifteen and in verse three it says for I deliver to you as a first importance , this is the basic thing , he says to them this was the first thing that I said to you because it was the most important that Christ died for our sins , according to the scripture , what ever else Christ gives to us , what ever else he does for us , what ever else the gospel produces , the basic , the most important , the fundamental thing is that Christ died for our sins .
30 but it was n't like a long thing but like I , the time that I spent with him was like quite a long time , like the evening , whatever , so he 'd get , and like it just used to be constant pauses , it used to be terrible and so we used to get off with each other like you pause for , for what
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