Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 colour this is not going to go where I want it to go .
2 You refuse to accept that I knew nothing about the drugs .
3 Darling darling , I feel that I am the luckiest man on earth and I want you to know that I know I am .
4 And I think you know me well enough by now , Bella , to know that I get what I want . ’
5 Here we might admit that my belief is true and justified but refuse to grant that I know there to be a sheep in the field .
6 ‘ The hard part is still to come and I know I wo n't be given any big money to strengthen the squad , even if we stay at the top .
7 She agreed to come and I took her first to the more brilliantly decorated one , not knowing that she was not only a very religious woman but also a girl who had been brought up in the strictest kind of convent — no heating , nothing for show .
8 It was n't vital to come but I thought I ought to .
9 A further acknowledgement on the video box is difficult for us to provide but I hope you will accept the two credits as specified as being sufficient .
10 And I said well look I said , I 've got to come because I said there 's no way anybody I said I would n't do it myself , I would n't put anybody in those beds .
11 Producer John Hughes , a father of two , said : ‘ The second one was easier to write because I knew who was in it .
12 I 've tried it sometimes , never long enough to know whether I did it successfully or not , but I found there is absolutely no way of telling because even if it changes in a way one can predict , what one can predict is the way oneself changes or the world changes at the same time .
13 There 's just one thing I need to know before I start what does a washing machine look like ?
14 It was the last thing I needed to know as I prayed it would miss us .
15 Several people turned up , apparently , but only one person agreed to come as I remember it : Alan Chapman , an unposh boy with a big blue scar down his nose .
16 He looked very doubtful when I asked certain questions and laughed me to scorn when I gave my verdict .
17 H I mean I 'm really talking about the high number of post sixteen special needs people Gail has , has to see that I mean they probably exist in other
18 I think I mean it was interesting cos someone said earlier about people coming in I mean once you get them in I mean I always feel it 's like the pantomime each year which is an amateur pantomime yet the actual people coming in to see that I mean it 's well in the ninety per cent 's and you talk to people when they come to see the pantomime and ver invariably the the mum 's or dad 's say no I do n't normally come to theatre but I come to the pantomime and they enjoy it very much and when you talk to them they can say well what you think of it ?
19 I 'm unashamed to report that I enjoyed it a lot , and I 'm sure I would have loved it as a child .
20 Now I think she 's beginning to realize that I scorn her .
21 I seem to remember that I unburdened myself to you , a while back . ’
22 But I used to do work for customer down the garage there he used to have two cars to hire and I drove one in my spare time .
23 I am too young to remember but I think he began his career as a supervisor in the turquoise mines of the Northern Desert , towards the end of the reign of Nebmare Amenophis .
24 Well you 've got to get them to participate but I suppose you would do if you question them
25 Them others , Dighton and the big fellow , they laughed fit to bust when I told 'em me name .
26 I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made .
27 If you twitched a horses lip or ear that happens , I would really like to see if I twitched your ear .
28 ‘ Perhaps , after all , they 'll wait to see if I bring you back .
29 He was getting ready to retire and I thought I 'd have lots of time with him . ’
30 We tried to persuade Tom not to go and I told him to stay well away from the horses .
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