Example sentences of "i [verb] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , the wine loosened Ralemberg 's tongue and the more he spoke the more convinced I became that his trading venture would be the basis of my own success . |
| 2 | The more I read of the early months of Nicholas MacMahon the more convinced I became that I too was rearing a prodigy . |
| 3 | ‘ You never knew how messed up I became after we broke up . |
| 4 | What you perceive will be different from what I perceive but there will probably be overlap . |
| 5 | ‘ I perceive that you 're a public-spirited youth . |
| 6 | I asked whether we should work together or whether we should fight … it will be your decision , Holly . |
| 7 | I asked whether they did not find it inconvenient , living so near the French border , not to speak French , but they said not . |
| 8 | Pursuing the notion of building sex education into the curriculum , I asked whether they would not be embarrassed to talk about sex with a teacher they saw around all the time . |
| 9 | I asked whether he thought he had the same difficulties as his father : |
| 10 | That reminds me : I asked whether he 'd heard anything within a few minutes of seeing young Hamnett , hoping he 'd say a shot , of course , which really would have been too good to be true . |
| 11 | In an intervention during the Home Secretary 's speech , I asked whether he had consulted or heard from the Prison Governors Association about the Bill . |
| 12 | I mentioned at the beginning the idea of a classless society , now I do n't know what you think of the er the idea of a classless society , it 's something that the th th Prime Minister erm er er talked about when he , when he took office and I asked whether you think it 's possible to have , we if you think a classless society is possible at all , whether you think it 's desirable . |
| 13 | When I got to the station they read the charge against me , charged me with it and I asked whether I was getting bail . |
| 14 | I asked whether I could come along too ; and Balvinder agreed . |
| 15 | she spoke to and said we 've discussed it cos I asked whether she 'd done that , she said she 'd spoken to and said we 've discussed that we should share the work more equally and said no I 'm happy with the way things were and left it that way |
| 16 | I asked that they take a different route each time , as far as possible , and to occasionally drive him there . |
| 17 | It is why I asked that he might attend here . |
| 18 | I asked although I had already decided that Harvey was a little drunk . |
| 19 | In November , I wrote to him pointing that the formal period for consultation was ending and I asked when we might hear his response to the Green Paper . |
| 20 | I asked when we were munching again . |
| 21 | I asked when they 'd gone . |
| 22 | How many times had my heart sunk when I asked if we could go somewhere or try something new in our poems and he had answered with the excusing phrase ‘ I guess not ’ ? |
| 23 | When we 'd finished I asked if we could wash up and run the errands but she said she 'd already been to the shops with her brother . |
| 24 | I asked if we might photograph the chest in that setting for publicity purposes . |
| 25 | Soaked with it and languid from the heat , with the scent of salt and sand still heavy in my nose , I asked if we could stop at the high slope of grass off Elderberry Road . |
| 26 | I asked if we might agree that ICI cares , is committed to reducing any harmful impact of its processes and is demonstrating its ‘ greenery ’ by building new plant to the highest environmental standards . |
| 27 | So I asked if we wanted anything ? |
| 28 | When I asked if they could make me an identical one trimmed with black fur and beading instead , they were horrified but they agreed in the end . ’ |
| 29 | They were of three different heights so in conversation with Julian I asked if they were all the same height or if some were taller than the others . |
| 30 | When he told me that he had inherited the cardinal 's robes of his predecessor , Cardinal Heenan , and I asked if they fitted , he said , ‘ No . |