Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I asked to keep her talking , but I was thinking of the scribble on the photocopies I 'd found . |
| 32 | Am I seeing Did you did you just Did you see what I saw ? |
| 33 | ‘ He 'd have done it willingly had I stopped to ask him , Bonnie , but I did n't . |
| 34 | ‘ Why on earth should I want to seduce you ? |
| 35 | Shall I I want to stir it . |
| 36 | To teach herself to handle thought , she made it a practise never to permit herself to touch a brush until she could answer these questions , in writing , in the fewest possible words : ‘ What attracted me to this subject ? ’ 'Why do I want to paint it ? ’ 'What is the thing I am trying to express ? ’ |
| 37 | ‘ Now what did I want to ask you … ? ’ |
| 38 | ‘ I neither love him , nor do I want to marry him . ’ |
| 39 | Why would I want to hurt her ? ’ |
| 40 | I find some offences disgust me , Im let the guy know , but then I let them know I want to help them |
| 41 | ‘ Why should I want to make you feel bad ? ’ he retorted . |
| 42 | Do I want to run you up ? |
| 43 | ‘ Why should I want to screw it up . ’ |
| 44 | ‘ Why should I want to threaten you , Fran ? |
| 45 | I did not want to worry her , but neither did I want to discuss him , even with Margaret . |
| 46 | And then if I please to reach him a hand and pick him up again , he shall know and acknowledge to whom he owes it , and walk more humbly thereafter . |
| 47 | A year or so later I chanced to meet him and he acknowledged that this was just criticism , but that he had been obliged to insert these names so that his book would look like a truly up-to-date , intouch work of scholarship . |
| 48 | ‘ I jes breeds 'em , ’ he told his innocent feet . |
| 49 | point of order , the point that I made make it on this side is that we are not against the expenditure . |
| 50 | I valued his judgement highly , and look back with pleasure to the several visits I made to him-and his equally delightful wife Elizabeth at their cottage in Cambridge where he was a fellow of Churchill College . |
| 51 | ‘ Now I am very happy with the decision I made to sign him . |
| 52 | I 'ad to hit him with an ornament , and when his fam'ly got back from church 'is wife asked him what 'ad happened to his face . |
| 53 | I 'ad to meet 'im after I 'd 'ad me look around . |
| 54 | Well , 'e give me 'alf-a-crown , so I 'ad to pay me dues in the way of informin' 'im . |
| 55 | ‘ She 's had a fever and now she wo n't let me out of her sight , so I 'ad to bring her . ’ |
| 56 | I regret dragging you back here , but I had to be certain . " |
| 57 | As the outcome bears no relation to either an efficient market or the declared aims of government policy , it sets up pressures for those who feel injured to seek political solutions , which mean greater government intervention and greater inefficiency — a treadmill with which I regret to say we are all too familiar in the United Kingdom . |
| 58 | ‘ I regret to say I have , Mr Stevens . |
| 59 | ‘ I regret to say I think you are . |
| 60 | I regret to inform him that , as things stand , he gives the impression that he intends to cling , right reason or none , to his position of power over a people who have consistently told him and his party that they want no part of it . |