Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] i [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Now you 'll all know that I 've told you the truth ! ’ he shouted .
2 ‘ I just wanted to let you know that I intend to resign my post at the District . ’
3 How very difficult it was to accept that I did need it and to show that I needed it .
4 Bainbridge has a lovely village green which was the setting for nothing more remarkable than the fact that I arrived there one day to walk over from Bainbridge to Cam Houses with Tony and Eddie , the landlord from my local pub , only to discover that I 'd left my walking boots back at home in Dentdale and had to do the entire walk in a pair of fur-lined cowboy boots , which earned me the nickname of Roy Rogers for the rest of the week .
5 I 'm gon na ring them up and say that I 've found her !
6 And say that I 've busted my bra strap !
7 ‘ It 's only a bunch of flowers , ’ he said , pleased with her response , ‘ although I can guarantee that I have bought them , and have n't picked them on the way over .
8 It came as a relief at this stage to find that I had got my sums right , and everything met where it ought !
9 When I regained consciousness it was to find that I 'd injured my spine and the doctor had ordered that I was to stay put , otherwise there was the possibility that I 'd end up a cripple .
10 When on Monday before Christmas 1991 I stepped on the scales and found that I 'd done it , I almost died of happiness .
11 I do n't consider that I 've reached my prime .
12 ‘ You forget , ’ Dorothea said gently , ‘ you forget that I have seen him . ’
13 Suzanne worries over it , she would not approve that I have told you .
14 ‘ And I apologise if I 've interrupted your work . ’
15 Voting for Maastricht and hoping that the Tories can be beaten at a later date on the Social Chapter was a decision I found difficult to accept and I have done my homework on this issue .
16 I do n't know if I 've shown you it
17 I do n't know if I 've got them here .
18 Now I 'm standing here in this thing and I do n't even know if I 've got it on back to front or not . ’
19 I do n't know if I 've got it on .
20 But I did n't know if I 'd done something wrong when I was taken away from my mother . ’
21 ‘ You are going , and I do not know if I have helped you .
22 I do n't know if I want to marry him , or if I will whenever it comes to the crunch .
23 Well , you know , I mean I 'd like to know if I 've answered them right , you know .
24 well it 's Wednesday now look , just even to know if I 've got something there
25 ‘ Mary wanted to know if I planned to marry you .
26 And even the watching Eubank had to admit : ‘ He has everything I want and I 've got everything he wants .
27 As a practising manager scanning and trying to make sense of the environment surrounding my particular enterprise , I came , too , to experience a high degree of frustration with , and scepticism about , the very notion of scanning ; and great concern as to the bias that I might introduce if I tried to communicate my conclusions to others !
28 I 've come and I 've took my boots off and poured the bloody rain out .
29 But now Ellen the time I have long awaited has come and I write to tell you that an Italian maidservant by name of Gigia who is travelling home to Florence having been in Scotland with a family who are friends of the Brownings is to come to you to collect Oreste and take him to Liverpool where she will be joined by Mr Ogilvy and from whence they will sail for Italy .
30 No I 'm actually quite surprised at myself I 've got two Clippers and both of them I found and I 've had them for ages .
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