Example sentences of "i [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 If I go on denying it they 'll all wag their fingers and say ‘ Aha ’ and tell me I protest too much .
2 Even as he spoke to me I felt very uneasy .
3 Terry rightly told me I went down the wrong I was looking for names rather than the dots .
4 As they swung past me I looked again at the SPs and my hear gave a thud .
5 Karen came and asked me I says alright .
6 ‘ But Mrs Aitken told me I 'd just missed him , so I got her to make me a cup of coffee . ’
7 From the loaf I have taken with me I tear off several pieces of crust and toss them one by one into the current , which carries them over the spot where the chub surfaced .
8 Trust me I said not truss me , trust me .
9 And he turned to me I said not likely !
10 George , not unlike his subject , has spent about half his life in Ireland west , north and south he tells me I said why not Dublin and he says that 's what I meant
11 H. P. I remember one time , the inspector coming round — we did n't always see eye-to-eye — telling me I had n't polished my buttons .
12 " I sorry , " he said once again , in a hopeless voice that told me I had n't convinced him .
13 But in any case I 'd chucked all me things in the cemetery , you know , and that 's so when they caught up with me I had n't got any newspapers .
14 And something told me I had n't behaved too well .
15 Fey was something they would tell me I had just invented , but it is something that never left me during the entire period I was an Instructor and sadly I was to learn very shortly after he left Kinloss that he did not survive very long on the squadron that he joined .
16 Arrayed against me I had both the TUC-affiliated unions and the Royal College of Nursing , the professional organization representing the nurses .
17 ‘ You once said if there was anything you could do to help me I had only to come to you and ask .
18 There was a printed card fixed above the doorbell which told me I had about ten minutes before visiting times were up .
19 After the receptionist picked herself off the floor she told me I had better call in the fire brigade . ’
20 She was not at all beautiful , but even with her likeness before me I had always assumed that she must be , since she carried such conviction in her forgotten words and her enduring appearance .
21 Cos it really has been extremely well managed , extremely well run , er not by me I 've just received the ballot papers .
22 Marriage will often be discussed with a kind of tolerant resignation as one of those burdens which have to be carried in life , the stuff of music-hall jokes : ‘ Since I 've had my wife behind me I 've never looked back ! ’
23 ‘ But despite all the mishaps that have happened to me I 've never lost faith in the inner man and that 's why I 'm still where I am .
24 If he 's trusted me I 've never asked him to , and I 've never promised him fealty .
25 The youngest , the youngest below me I 've ever gone for is three years younger .
26 Oh they , they say it 's all controllable so that I 've , I 've answered , I have n't just let the Environmental Health wash over me I 've actually written back to them again , er I 'll be interested to see whether I get a letter back from them , but I phoned up the Council this morning and they 're rejecting on two grounds , one is to do with the highway and the sort of the traffic situation coming in there , although the , the authority , the Highway Department are n't objecting to it and the other one is erm , on local environmental issues I think you know that is , is unsuitably , unsuitable environmentally to the area well I can only say that I 'm grateful to the planning , to the planning offices for they 're going out on a limb if you like because I think they 're on thin ice erm and so long as the committee will , will back them up I mean I do n't know of what else I could of done as a person
27 Well do n't to me I 've only just you
28 Me I know how to put up a four tent six tent .
29 I nodded to them , but when they looked at me I turned away quickly , for fear I should see them exchange puzzled glances .
30 But what he has told me I found rather interesting — in the circumstances , ’ he added pointedly , confirming her suspicions .
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