Example sentences of "i [coord] [verb] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I stick up for myself he either ignores me or suggests that I 'm being impertinent and that I risk losing my job by being out-spoken . |
| 2 | The Gruncher will smell me and know that I am very close . |
| 3 | The day before contracts were due to be exchanged , the vendor phoned me and asked whether we could keep on his current lodger who was a student and about to take his final exams . |
| 4 | A few days later Lord Thorneycroft , the Party Chairman , and Alastair ( now Lord ) McAlpine came to me and asked if we could stage another for the European Elections — three weeks later . |
| 5 | Several times it 's happened to me that someone has come up to me and asked if I 've ever done a play . |
| 6 | An upper-class homosexual-looking man with white hair and glittering eyes came up to me and asked if I wanted to go to a Black Mass . |
| 7 | He then turned to me and asked if I was signing a contract too . |
| 8 | With that she lifted the latch , but before opening the door she turned to me and asked if I would like to go shopping with her . |
| 9 | She turned to me and asked if I had spoken to my husband today , was he well , and the children . |
| 10 | A year beforehand , Chudnovsky , who was a collector from Leningrad , and a very well-known one , had been to see me and asked if I could help him . |
| 11 | ‘ About forty minutes before the train was due to arrive this man came up to me and asked if I 'd be interested in making five hundred francs . |
| 12 | My first encounter with Kagan took place when Wilson telephoned me and asked if I would see him . |
| 13 | One day one of the German officers stationed in Fontanellato , an Oberleutnant Bauer , called on me and asked if I could give him Italian lessons . |
| 14 | ‘ Because , three months ago , Heather telephoned me and asked if I 'd taken Clare to the Skein of Geese a couple of weeks before her death . |
| 15 | As I passed the bakery on my way home , Didier ran out of the shop to greet me and asked if he might accompany me . |
| 16 | I was about to go back to the hotel when a pool attendant gestured to me and whispered that he urgently needed to change Iraqi dinars into dollars . |
| 17 | One of the Officers turned to me and indicated that I should push off . |
| 18 | ‘ There were a few kids who came up to meet me and said that they were n't going to vote until they heard what I had to say . ’ |
| 19 | And erm the only other outstanding sponsor from last year was Northern Rock and that has been a bit of a qu a problem because er it 's , we have n't had a closing gala event which might attract them but just recently erm Paul who as you know performed last year with his band so er well er is , had rang me and said that they are doing something in Venice and they could in fact take the boat to Hull rather than to Dover and bring it here and I 'm , so I 'm working on the assumption that we might have that . |
| 20 | However , the er holder came to me and said that they , he would like to invest a considerable sum in new equipment , refrigerators blah blah blah . |
| 21 | After a cursory examination , he turned to me and said that we must get the boy to hospital quickly . |
| 22 | She also had a doctor brought in who examined me and said that I was fine . |
| 23 | We did get through some pretty hot language , erm he did say that this would destroy the tripartite system and he quoted me and said that I said it was a system which was the end of the world . |
| 24 | So I let her just pass , and said , ‘ Oh , darling , I am looking for a new ‘ element ’ … ’ ; and after half an hour the manager came back to me and said that she was sitting upstairs weeping . |
| 25 | He thanked me and said that my application would be on the table for consideration at the next meeting of the committee . |
| 26 | He just came to me and said that he was unhappy and I said OK . |
| 27 | actually it 's a bit boring down there now but they , they had to put my , my explanation of the price of petrol er down , there 's nowhere to thing , cos th the last time I was down there I asked for a pint of bitter and this guy bought it me and said and I wanted two pound thirty or something . |
| 28 | Well I , I was sitting in my house one night on the , I think it would be er nineteen fifty four , and a deputation came up from the ward committee to see me and wondered if I would join the council . |
| 29 | I want her to talk to me , to tell me stories about her as a little girl , to play with me and look as I play , but she drifts off into herself . |
| 30 | So they started their ministry off together , and I think it 's something quite special to me and to recognise that we have sent three people off on a journey and three people , two here , have come to the end of a journey and just part of the journey and are beginning to discover that will be discovered in the life of the three human beings , human beings |