Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb base] [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | we get more of you than me get plenty of me on these . |
| 2 | I 'd like to say that I remember something about the rest of that walk but I do n't , only that it rained , then it rained some more , and when it got fed up with that , it rained again . |
| 3 | It 's not that I 've anything against audiences , it 's just that when they 're a blur they 're so friendly — just one big smiley mess . |
| 4 | Not that I 've anything against Americans ; far from it . |
| 5 | So did his explanatory remark that he had written it ‘ to show that I know something about birds ’ . |
| 6 | It is n't the first time you 've implied that I know something about what 's going on , so how about explaining it to me ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I say merely that I know nothing of your late wife . |
| 8 | ‘ I told your sergeant that I know nothing of my cousin 's death . |
| 9 | ‘ Not if you want to keep your job ! ’ he snarled , and , on the brink of all-out warfare , ‘ Do you have some secret understanding with him that I know nothing of ? ’ |
| 10 | You all insist that I know nothing but nobody else can do this . |
| 11 | My point is that I see nothing in the Gracious Speech to enable me to counter the opinions expressed by our European partners who are still proud to know us but bemused that we have a Britain which in their eyes is no longer as great as it was . |
| 12 | Please let solicitors deal with everything , and also , please believe me when I say that I want nothing but a few mementos of my father . |
| 13 | Not that I expect someone like you to ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I have to confess that I find nothing in the current stock of recent coursebooks to compare in originality or methodological advance with the vastly popular Headway series … ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I have to confess that I find nothing in the current stock of recent coursebooks to compare in originality or methodological advance with the vastly popular Headway series … ’ — Coursebooks for the '90s , EFL Gazette |
| 16 | Marchmont himself was forced to admit that ‘ Lord Anson 's promises are so long in the performing that I reckon none of us will build sudden expectations upon them ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ I can assure you that I have none of those — er-appendages . ’ |
| 18 | Not that I have anything against ugliness . |
| 19 | Not that I have anything against gas fitters but I do think that to do what I did at 15 takes a bit more courage . |
| 20 | It 's not that I have anything against them per se , of course . |
| 21 | ‘ I keep imagining this morning that I have — please believe me , Milena , because when we 're married you will have to put up with a lot of this , but I keep imagining that I have lots of little crisp sepia legs . ’ |
| 22 | Erm I 'm always overjoyed when people say things like that to me , that you 've just said , er but I think I understand acting more than I understand anything in the world . |
| 23 | And I like lots of really low ground cover and plants like campanula with those lovely blue flowers . " |
| 24 | I mean he 's been known to do that because he you know what is going to happen with him commercially in his newspapers and he 's actually very clever and I mean none of us I mean okay and I think Peter might be the but I can get quite upset or intense or distressed or whatever the word is about that sort of stuff , because I am my background is journalism and I 'm quite pure about it , but we 're living in reality times here and the reality times is that he has got certain agendas . |
| 25 | ‘ All he left was debts , and I 've nothing but what you can see . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ They all look nice and happy on the television , and I 've nothing against them as individuals . |
| 27 | And I 've nothing in my hand . ’ |
| 28 | And I 've nothing in my hand . ’ |
| 29 | And I 've lots of other things to do . |
| 30 | I saw nothing suspicious and I know nothing of what happened on the second floor . ’ |