Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] i " in BNC.
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1 | I call them discussions I do n't call them interviews . |
2 | Then one day I had to go to the Post Office for something — one of them forms I daresay — so I thought I better wrap up , I better take care , you 're very vulnerable after a long illness you know , and I put my old long mack on and one of the kids ' mack hats and Wellingtons and I went out in the rain , feeling , in a depressed sort of way , ‘ Well , if I get ill again , what can I do ? |
3 | Caught me foot I did and nearly fell , ’ Jess said , muffled by her hands . |
4 | Richard , on the odd occasion you something for me Richard I ought to be a lot for you ! |
5 | ‘ I mean , if he ever gave me AIDS I 'd give him a Colombian necktie — ’ |
6 | well er , I 'm , excuse me David I 'm talking to Chris . |
7 | I said put that finger down and I might tell you , I said do n't point at me David I do n't like being pointed at and Maureen nearly fell over , Maureen stood there , she nearly fell over |
8 | She said I got , she said to me Sue I want a lot , all over . |
9 | But long ago , in 1946 , the questing and the questioning had become almost unbearable , and I knew that to keep my sanity I must force myself to an arbitrary conclusion : I would believe the least terrible of terrible possibilities — that the plane had been shot down over the Channel by enemy action . |
10 | For my sanity I had to put my foot down , even though my husband , a very conventional Greek , could n't understand why . |
11 | From the unsafe distance of my perversion I could , at last , allow my real reactions to emerge . |
12 | But if we now recall the alternative definition of democracy as popular power , or popular sovereignty , then it becomes clear that it can not be a democratic act for the people to vote away their own power and their own rights ; any more than if I freely renounce my freedom I can remain free because the renunciation was a free act . |
13 | This was strapped so tightly around my ankles I think it stopped the circulation in my feet . |
14 | Whenever I picked up my guitar I played the same basic scalar and arpeggiated patterns . |
15 | The mechanism was somewhat as follows ( I have used it since ) : to every charge brought against me , unjust though it be , from the bottom of my heart I shall answer yes . |
16 | With all my heart I hope for the failure of that first book — no , volume , of mine , from beginning to end not trash , but heartless pretence . |
17 | I wish with all my heart I could believe what you say . |
18 | With all my heart I mean that . |
19 | But in my heart I still know I 'm innocent ’ . |
20 | In my heart I can not put down what happened to our family that day to anything else . |
21 | I knew that I had to protect myself from another pounding — if I let him into my heart I would be done for . |
22 | ‘ It was done by experts and in my heart I knew it was wrong . ’ |
23 | In my heart I can not accept it . ’ |
24 | But in my heart I was frantic . |
25 | In my heart I know she is mine but the uncertainty over all this is agonising . |
26 | ‘ It is indeed , my lord — with all my heart I say it is . ’ |
27 | ‘ Perhaps , ’ I agreed but in my heart I doubted it . |
28 | I was scolded for an hour by Bessie as the most ungrateful child in the world , and indeed with so much hate in my heart I did feel wicked . |
29 | In the struggle and confusion that was going on in my heart I knew that he loved me and I loved him , but I also knew that I must leave him ! |
30 | However , in my heart I also knew I was right to leave . |