Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pers pn] [conj] i [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | And then they say , Well the guy he 's next door I do n't know him but I just thought I 'd put him on . |
2 | Europe ? well we could beat about the bush but there 's not a single rep on the road that ever gets out the office so got ta win it cos I actually saw I actually we I actually saw her go out and see a customer so she must she must be er |
3 | Harry junior said : ‘ I knew the ex-pats here would buy it but I never dreamed it would be so popular with the Chinese . |
4 | nothing since last August and my husband keeps saying oh I must stay in and do it , I must stay in and do it and I just do n't ! |
5 | But mind over matter , I can do it if I really want to , and I will . |
6 | I do n't want to be tied , I want to leave my options free so that I can do whatever I want , I do n't need the extra responsibility , I mean I 'd like them but I just , I want my career first . |
7 | I do n't suppose I 'll like him if I ever meet him . |
8 | Even then I did n't really believe it until I actually saw it . |
9 | Well I c I I 've seen so many things over the year I just do n't believe it until I actually see it and th literally four weeks ago , I 'd just got back from Germany , went on a meeting the following morning and it 's that gentleman there , Steve , and h he 's got some pictures in his pocket which will prove exactly what we 're talking about . |
10 | I could n't believe it until I actually rang home . ’ |
11 | She looked at her hands , knobbling with rheumatism , " I ca n't use 'em as I once did . " |
12 | I could remember it but I just could n't say now whether the police were stopped in their tracks . |
13 | And I I ca n't understand it and I still have n't got to the bottom of the reason why is doing , seems to me to be doing a lot of work herself |
14 | Yeah , and I usually consid I mean do n't like it but I usually think it 's reasonably safe |
15 | If it comes I 'll take it because I still feel I can score goals . ’ |
16 | No I do n't want him but I still think he 's quite nice I mean |
17 | yeah , these might tell you but I always heard that salt was damp ! |
18 | If you do n't want to just leave it and I just |
19 | I 'll play it like I completely mean it . ’ |
20 | I suppose looking back on what I said at the time it was true and I did really love you and I still do but now it 's not sexual or romantic , it was n't sexual then because my mind was too pure and partly because you were such a huge chunk of my life , one seventh , and I think I always will do n't know what that 's su oh it 's love you I suppose for you it must have been such a small thing and at fifteen stroke sixteen you can probably only just remember me I was fourteen actually I was the middle son who was n't properly blond unlike the brothers and hung around near you far too much . |
21 | His head was full of sentences he was going to write to Hilary when he had the time to put pen to paper : I may remind you that I never asked you for a penny towards the summer gas bill … do you think I am made of stone ? … surely I deserve better consideration … who listened for hours when you had that disagreement at Bromley over Fortescue upstaging you in She Stoops to Conquer … have you forgotten that it was I , when your mother had her second stroke , who travelled with her in the ambulance and went back on the bus to collect her plaster replica of the Sacred Heart ? |
22 | By now I must be five years clear of her , and she said she 'd kill me if I ever told anyone her age . |
23 | Quite frankly , you have time to change your minds because if you do n't change your minds , those unemployed in with special needs will never forgive you and I certainly wo n't . |