Example sentences of "of i [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I think it 's sorry I do n't think it will serve any purpose people actually get up and make character assassinations of other people and when were talk in terms of I said You said and He said I do n't think that 's a productive way to conduct the evening 's business . . |
| 2 | Knobs of I thought he was a squab knob |
| 3 | Well the grey come through and I was just sort of I thought I ca n't wait all those years with dark hair . |
| 4 | Abu Dabi was the place I was trying to think of I knew it was a funny name |
| 5 | And he had half of I gave him that banana desert . |
| 6 | In all the cases examined with full verbs , the bare infinitive has evoked what could be termed a coincident actualization , and its event is not represented as beginning to exist in time before that of the main verb , as depicted by this diagram of I watched him cross the street : This does not exhaust the expressive capacity of the bare infinitive , however , as we are going to see that it can also express what we will call coincident potentiality . |