Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly it was I who should have spoken these words , but already I had a feeling that I knew what the brown paper and the ribbed cardboard concealed , and I was n't going to say a word until time or circumstance compelled me . |
| 2 | I think that I put it the other way round last time . |
| 3 | I am not precisely sure that I know what the right hon. Gentleman had in mind on sentencing policy , but I am happy to engage in exchanges outside . |
| 4 | Once I know what the other operettas will be , I shall work with her every day . |
| 5 | So , we toast the railway station and I tell him the only Czech joke I know . |
| 6 | Nine years have passed since my divorce and I tell myself the half-forgotten betrayals and deceits are old news . |
| 7 | Looking back later , Helen recalled three things about this new life , so different from the unhappy days when she and Edward discovered that his passionate letters to her were being read by Mrs Andrews : ‘ The beauty of it delighted me , and I thought it the perfect setting for these people with their freedom of manner and thought … . |
| 8 | and I 'm seeing the surgeon today and erm and I met somebody the other day who 'd had it done and his fingers were n't affected , you know , so I mean it 's just the luck of the draw I think . |
| 9 | And I told him the whole story of our voyage , and the danger we were now in . |
| 10 | ‘ Tom and I saw it the other day , ’ she was saying . |
| 11 | And I give him the whole book what lists names and numbers and what not . |
| 12 | Then I , for a few minutes , we 've got only fifteen minutes so , about twelve to fifteen minutes , and I explain them the historical aspects . |
| 13 | It seems to have a mind of its own , and I call it The Great One . |
| 14 | If I show you the general norms it makes a lot more sense . |
| 15 | ‘ What if I tell you the whole truth ? |
| 16 | And I sha n't come back until I remember what the great Daybog said , " This news made the old man very sad , for he loved Yanek the best of his three grandsons . |
| 17 | ‘ Wild geese , mon vieux , is what you presume me to chase , ’ said the gentleman to Bramble , ‘ but I assure you the stable door is bolted . ’ |
| 18 | Clive practised his exercises diligently and , when I saw him the following week , he had mastered the breathing technique — although it still took a great deal of concentration on his part and was not something he did naturally . |
| 19 | And when I saw it the other day , on my way from London 's West End , I could n't believe it . |
| 20 | When I saw it the other night , tucked inside the cello part of one of the piano trios we play , she had got as far as ‘ State 7 — Moderate Gale : Intervals of laughter . |
| 21 | When I found her the other side of my desk I told her in no uncertain terms I was n't having anything to do with it . |
| 22 | And then when I gave you the minimum premium er it was like right okay well that 's , that 's the easy way out is n't it , twenty quid a month , okay I might do something for twenty quid because I was n't committed and that 's what exploration of needs is all about and it 's , it 's so easy for me to sit and say yeah that 's what you need to do but putting myself in your shoes , you know , a few years ago |
| 23 | The next point that I wanted to turn to is who the duty of care is owed owed to , er as I understand it the present law is quite clear . |
| 24 | just as I did it the bloody filter light came on |