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

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1 Now you 'll all know that I 've told you the truth ! ’ he shouted .
2 How very difficult it was to accept that I did need it and to show that I needed it .
3 I 'm gon na ring them up and say that I 've found her !
4 ‘ 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 .
5 When on Monday before Christmas 1991 I stepped on the scales and found that I 'd done it , I almost died of happiness .
6 ‘ You forget , ’ Dorothea said gently , ‘ you forget that I have seen him . ’
7 Suzanne worries over it , she would not approve that I have told you .
8 I do n't know if I 've shown you it
9 I do n't know if I 've got them here .
10 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 . ’
11 I do n't know if I 've got it on .
12 ‘ You are going , and I do not know if I have helped you .
13 I do n't know if I want to marry him , or if I will whenever it comes to the crunch .
14 Well , you know , I mean I 'd like to know if I 've answered them right , you know .
15 ‘ Mary wanted to know if I planned to marry you .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 ‘ When I 'm away for more than six or seven days , the pang starts and I need to see her ’ .
19 I can isolate my Koi and they are easy to catch if I need to give them short term baths .
20 I 'll wait till I 've used them er .
21 eighty nine thousand , I need another go round and another thousand pound and I 've won because I 've got me two thingybobs
22 It 's still hard to know whether I 've saved them all , but at least I know I 've done my best .
23 Yes I re I said that and I realized that I 'd said it and I should n't have done .
24 I th there was , there was one big point that I actually missed out as well that neither of you have picked up on and that was that Maggie actually said that they were having problems with John in school and I should 've come back and , and said well she di she actually said that she was having problems with John , full stop , and I should 've actually come back and , and clarified whether it was at school or not and hence led to the private education and I missed that one completely and realized that I 'd done it afterwards but none of you picked up on that one .
25 I do not think that I have fantasticated them , but time always supplies some element of fancy .
26 Obviously , the volume of data by making notes and by taperecording that I acquired made it sensible for me to concentrate on the one school rather than the other .
27 I was surprised to see that the recording venue was good old Abbey Road Studios : there is such a prominent background rumble that I had assumed it must have been some city church .
28 But now suppose that you know I am behind the tree , you are expecting me to leap out , and I know you know all that : I can still ( maybe ) frighten you by leaping out , just by getting you to realize that I intend to frighten you .
29 By next morning I 'd only got as far as realising that I had to talk you round . ’
30 I do n't know what 's happened lately — the machine has either taken notice and chosen to behave or I have mastered it at last , because I have managed to finish two sweaters this week !
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