Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] i [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean listen I 'm the first person to talk in in support of body piercing I look I have parts of my body pierced I like it but I do n't think standing around the street corners sort of revealing it is a nice thing to do . |
| 2 | ‘ Apologies , my dear fellow , ’ said Mr Singleton , ‘ momentarily I failed to appreciate I was talking to an artist . ’ |
| 3 | If I got stopped I 'm grabbing Albert and he 's coming down to get changed too ! |
| 4 | When I got married I was only seventeen and my husband was twenty-one . |
| 5 | Before I got married I was living in the London Palace and there was something like three hundred and sixty girls there . |
| 6 | Whe , the day I got married I was a thirty two A A |
| 7 | ‘ I tried to pretend I was thoroughly involved with my career — as I am , of course , but you know what I mean . |
| 8 | ‘ I want to stress I 'm happy with the award but this is not a one-man team , ’ he said . |
| 9 | ‘ Once I 'd gone I was asked to do a wide range of things but not because I was Chrissie Rogers but because of me Ethy Browne that has been the most satisfying aspect . |
| 10 | Whereas if I 'd said I was coming with Kevin it would n't have been . |
| 11 | I would if I 'd said I was going to sleep , stay with Hannah |
| 12 | ‘ You either sink or swim , ’ she said , ‘ and I 'd decided I was going to swim . ’ |
| 13 | I 'd thought I was going to rest on my laurels . |
| 14 | By the time I 'd recovered I was skinnier than ever , having been rationed to an orange a day . |
| 15 | If I 'm , please , if I 'd known I 'm sorry , sir |
| 16 | ‘ If I 'd known I was that unpopular … ’ |
| 17 | In fact if I 'd known I was coming here I could have brought you some in , let you seen what we used to do . |
| 18 | ‘ Lady , if I 'd known I was dealing with a certifiable lunatic wild horses would n't have dragged me here . ’ |
| 19 | I came to say I was sorry . |
| 20 | Have I phoned to say I 'm coming ? |
| 21 | she , she said to me on the way o , er as I was I said look I 'm going to scoot now and she said well I hope you do n't get any unwanted company on the way back . |
| 22 | WHAT OUR READERS SAY : ‘ I do enjoy reading PFK — I have learned a lot from it , and I hasten to add I 'm still learning . ’ |
| 23 | We tend to think of these beautiful insects as being very brightly coloured but when I began experimenting I was unable to get convincing results . |
| 24 | I began to feel I was really homing in on the answer : involuntary spasms had sent those lifeless appendages hopping about the turret like bingo balls on a current of air … until their trajectories just happened to coincide with not-wall , not-floor , not-ceiling ( which I quickly worked out was better than a one in three shot every hop ) . |
| 25 | It is not that I inferred from the resemblance in shape that it was a man , until I began to doubt I was not thinking about it at all . |
| 26 | Now I know said I was but I give the impression from that if you shake hands with them you should count your fingers afterwards |
| 27 | I like to think I am broad-minded , but the language my father used was beyond the pale , and all because he could n't have a shave ! |
| 28 | ‘ I like to think I 'm a good loser , but I do n't like being cheated out of something that I ought to have won , ’ he said . |
| 29 | ‘ I like to think I 'm a good loser , but I do n't like being cheated out of something that I ought to have won , ’ he said . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've had my eye on it for a while , but as an accountant I like to think I 'm getting a bargain , ’ says Mark . |