Example sentences of "[vb -s] i [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | If there 's one thing that disgusts me it 's cold porridge . |
2 | ‘ This ABS thing fascinates me You just ca n't get it to skid , can you ? |
3 | A moment later the wizard was standing over him , shouting , ‘ Tell it that if it singes me I 'll let the sword go ! |
4 | He said I do n't know what the car owes me he said can you come back tomorrow about half past ten ? |
5 | Until he beats me he will always be in my shadow . ’ |
6 | ‘ It amazes me he should now want to kill the goose that has laid him the golden egg . |
7 | It amazes me I hear Orkney children in Orkney and they 'll be playing and talking to one another in English you know . |
8 | ‘ You must get your loyalties right and if Nigel wants me I ride for him . |
9 | He wants me I mean he wants to do me a favour , Paul , so he might gi he might , you know I mean he say for us , I mean for us he would |
10 | I 'm ready to believe yowl admit of their recommendations all I presume to say of him is that he writes me he shall be really dilligent and the enclosed specimens he has grown which I hope yowl puruse make it look as if he would prove so . |
11 | I 'll do my best out there — but if he hurts me I 'm going down . ’ |
12 | And he said but the way I 'd like to do it , he says I I 'd love to fight it again , with er with you as me agent , instead of , I 'm sure I could win it . |
13 | So in other words he comes round and he says I I do n't want that there I want a little bit put there |
14 | She 's a very conceited woman , Pete the adulterous told me she was a very conceited woman and er Neil says I I I 'd have to talk to him to him about this , she could n't discuss anything with him she would lay down the law , that was how it had to be and I said no I said Gerry and I , I had no hesitation , as I said , in putting the boot in and Brenda and Dave take the same the attitude to children that you let them first of all when they 're small , you have to tell them no like you do not |
15 | I says I I er no no messing around I want it back . |
16 | he says I you try buying |
17 | But I mean it sounds really crap but it 's just I swear if he chooses me I 'm gon na fucking slap him . |
18 | She let herself into the comfort and glow of the solar to hear her father 's querulous voice complaining , in terms in which surely he himself did not believe : ‘ My mind misdoubts me we have done wrong to have any part in this . |
19 | He assures me we both , from what he and I saw on the spot , can go beyond what Jerome himself knows . ’ |
20 | Gooseneck absolutely assures me they always wash their hands before touching any food and anyway , I believe they are all selected extremely carefully . |
21 | What the Double-up weeks will be able to do , that they are not supposed to do now , even though everyone involved assures me it happens , is to pay appearance money to the leading players to enter their tournaments in addition to meeting their unchanged commitment of eight single and three double-up weeks , and presumably the Grand Slams . |
22 | Arrow assures me it has him here . |
23 | I ca n't play one personally but I do have a lady in my band who 's who can , very very good accordion player who assures me she can play a zither as well you see . |
24 | Understandably , Mr Anderson is slightly put out , but he assures me he is not in the least surprised . |
25 | Our next reunion is March , eleventh through the fourteenth in Tucsan , Arizona and not only will we dedicate the museum at that time but er Les assures me he 's gon na have the airplane ready done , be er flown again with a . |
26 | If he sees me I 'll stick with him . |
27 | If anyone from the hospital sees me I 'll never hear the last of it . ’ |
28 | Every time he sees me he thinks I 'm going to sleep with him and I do n't want to . |
29 | When he sees me he pointedly turns away and tries to talk to someone else . |
30 | But when he sees me he gets very angry and chatters away furiously . |