Example sentences of "[pers pn] i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no use in telling me I shall soon be running up mountains . |
| 2 | And , darling , if I make you half as happy as you make me I shall have done well … |
| 3 | ‘ Well , if you wo n't come with me I shall ask Nigger when he comes home . |
| 4 | ‘ And if the old skinflint wo n't give it to me I shall take it just the same . |
| 5 | Consequently , if you do n't feel you want to cooperate with me I shall be justified in going ahead with my job and in leaving you free to act in any way you think fit . ’ |
| 6 | And whatever he does to me I shall still have my woman-me he can never touch . |
| 7 | ‘ If Gómez is not at the address you have given me I shall presume it is because you 've been in touch with him , so do n't phone him . |
| 8 | If you do n't tell me I shall get it out of him . ’ |
| 9 | In the time available to me I shall answer as many as possible of the points that have been raised . |
| 10 | she immediately undercuts herself : ( " And even if you say something shameful to me I shall blame you in no way at all " ) |
| 11 | ‘ In spite of no one being here but you and me I shall dress for dinner tonight , and expect you to do likewise . ’ |
| 12 | If you can advise me I shall be very grateful . |
| 13 | They want erm English thirteen year-olds why they chose me I shall never know . |
| 14 | I 'm in the middle of the kiss before it occurs to me I might be dreaming , but I know immediately I 'm not . |
| 15 | Without half a bottle of red wine inside me I might have slipped on the slimy breakwater , but I jump onto the stony beach and chase her along the shore . |
| 16 | If it 's true that you were so keen to meet me I might satisfy your curiosity completely by reversing my rule to only date brunettes — ’ |
| 17 | I 've always been a bit of an organiser , so when I looked in on ffeatherstonehaugh 's , started to go regularly and saw that things seemed to be in a bit of a mess , it seemed to me I might usefully give it some of my time . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Are you telling me I might get bounced ? ’ |
| 19 | Now to me I might want to know that people use language to mean more than one thing . |
| 20 | ‘ He tells me I wo n't be able to go on like this , but he knows how important it is to my life , ’ Edwards reasoned . |
| 21 | Something tells me I wo n't be seeing her for a while either . |
| 22 | Dr Kenneth has warned me I wo n't be able to go out until the spring . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm giving you one final warning , Adam — if you touch me I wo n't be held responsible for my actions ! ’ |
| 24 | The more you tell me I wo n't succeed , the more I 'm determined to prove you wrong . ’ |
| 25 | Erm I think I 've learnt how to do it , it 's fairly straightforward but er him having tied the leader on for me I wo n't have to go back to him anyway for quite some time . |
| 26 | She liked to plan everything — meals , shopping expeditions — in painstaking detail ; she was — again like Sophie — an extremely efficient housekeeper , always turning mattresses and telling me I ought to starch table napkins and put fresh flowers in the hall every day . |
| 27 | [ to BELVILLE ] Honoured sir , your last proposal to me convinces me I ought not to stay , so , with a thousand thanks for all favours , I will set out for home tomorrow early . |
| 28 | My husband told me I ought to be getting out more , so my friend and I began to go out once a fortnight . |
| 29 | ‘ Why does everybody tell me I ought to watch my drinking when they 're all so busy watching it for me ? |
| 30 | How many times did you tell me I ought to see her ? ’ |