Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [conj] i [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That does n't really describe Denim but I think it does have a quality , something inhuman and plastic and mechanical . |
| 2 | But if it had been irradiated , well , let us put it this way , I would n't buy food if I knew it was irradiated . |
| 3 | We were driving north and I saw it at once . |
| 4 | Yeah , I know it still needs treatment but I mean it 'll try and get the swelling down a bit . |
| 5 | You shall see it will fall pat as I told you ’ ( V.i.185ff . ) . |
| 6 | After twenty months of fighting , where twenty times I should have died [ Raymond Jubert admitted ] I have not yet seen war as I imagined it . |
| 7 | ‘ We did n't get the rub of the green and felt we deserved something , but we got zilch and I think it is because this Villa side are so good . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm pretty fit and I do like cycling but I expect I 'll be shattered by the time I get to the end . |
| 9 | Nor did I dare return until I thought you 'd be safely in bed , and no temptation to me . ’ |
| 10 | well your mum said to me well I 'll tell you the same as I 've told Con but I said I 'm not against the children or anything the children |
| 11 | I , you know I do n't mind , I enjoy handicraft but I find I 'm out Monday playing darts , I 'm out Tuesday doing handicraft and I look after a little boy who 's got Cerebral Palsy four mornings a week and comes three in the afternoon and it 's quite a lot . |
| 12 | Now I try to avoid chocolate and I crave it when I |
| 13 | My wife thinks you 've got appeal and I think you 're a bit of an idiot . ’ |
| 14 | Oh I 'm I think I 'm a semi veggie I just eat meat when I fancy it . |
| 15 | ‘ Nice try , but I know unreality when I feel it . ’ |
| 16 | actually I tend to waste money cos I thought I 'd sit here and moan about taking them out the cost of it , but then I considered spending a hundred pound on a bed that he probably does n't even need , it 's daft really in n it ? |
| 17 | I 'm not all that religious , I reckon you can be good without goin' to Church , and that , but I know wickedness when I see it , and it ought to be put a stop to . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ No , really — think about the last time you went a day without wearing make-up and I bet it would be a frighteningly long time ago . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ That 's not a word that I know sir but I think I take your meaning . ’ |
| 20 | She tells them what she wants , she said er one , Fred said something to her one week and she said , well you know , you can get some sirloin , she says I like sirloin and I like it with fat . |
| 21 | The señora sighs relief when I tell her more soup will suffice . |
| 22 | I heard kettle and I thought he 's still in house , him . |
| 23 | Oh yes and then I done , I did er I put forty two A north and then I went to put street and I wrote it in , typed it in , but it went underneath forty two A. |
| 24 | See it might have reached temperature before I mean I do n't know , I ca n't do a |
| 25 | In reflecting on Basil as a person , I can only make comment as I knew him , over a dozen years or so and , during which time , I can not recall one unkind word or act he ever directed towards me . |
| 26 | I am general secretary of a small road running club and I know I am not alone in thinking that the increase in regional affiliation fees for 1992 is excessive . |
| 27 | She started telling us how she had a bell which she rang if she needed help and I said I 'd listen out for it . |
| 28 | ‘ The roof seems sound and I think I can force one of the windows and get in . |
| 29 | MY HUSBAND bought me a watch as a birthday present , but it kept losing time and I returned it after the holidays . |
| 30 | Heaven itself opened up for me when we made love and I knew I was the first man in your life . |