Example sentences of "i i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , ’ Miss Honey said , ‘ when I got my teacher 's job , the aunt told me I owed her a lot of money . |
| 2 | It seemed to me I owed him some explanation . |
| 3 | ‘ From what you told me I assumed it . |
| 4 | ‘ I also pointed out that if you scratch me I bite , ’ he reminded her softly . |
| 5 | Do n't tell me I imagined that too . |
| 6 | He was terrified of the Sultan , but for his own safety decided the best policy was to cling to the Tughluk 's fingertips ‘ and every time he said any encouraging word to me I kissed his hand , until I had kissed it seven times . ’ |
| 7 | I concede that it will do for judging in retrospect the spontaneity beyond the margins of my rationality , as when jumping like an instinctive animal for the side of the road , and for such primitive choices as the child 's refusal of another helping ; but I continue to insist that at the centre of me I differ from the child in having escaped being restricted to choice between spontaneous goals . |
| 8 | ‘ When the car had gone past me I applied my safety-catch and I saw Private Aindow standing in a firing position ’ . |
| 9 | You were looking at me I knew you were going to say that |
| 10 | As the wave of relief flooded through me I saw Mr Bailes climbing over the wall from the next field . |
| 11 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 12 | ‘ When I saw death coming towards me I began to think it had been a bad business for me to kill that guy . ’ |
| 13 | If I go on denying it they 'll all wag their fingers and say ‘ Aha ’ and tell me I protest too much . |
| 14 | If they cause trouble with me I cause trouble with them it 's as simple as that . |
| 15 | Er it did occur to me I mean I was , in my last church , the for for completely different reasons , the question of the timing of the church services , was brought up . |
| 16 | One of us , Mary and me I mean , always checked . |
| 17 | But if we get , we , it seemed to me I mean Deborah raised it and I think there is a way of doing it , which would be for example erm looking at the agreements , how many schools have got agreements ? |
| 18 | Er it 's immaterial to me I mean I 'm , I 'm , I 'm totally unprejudiced . |
| 19 | As Maggie 's talking to me I mean you can see like my here I mean I 've got all sorts , as you would use that , those pages for , there 's notes as I 'm going through of things that we were doing and er the university and , and everything like that and there 's other parts of it that , I mean the , the things that you would come back to and elaborate more on |
| 20 | One thing she told me I mean , Janine will tell you herself . |
| 21 | Then also , he also gave me I mean I got hundred percent mortgage which you are allowed on , I mean the law says er t the chance to buy so therefore you do n't have to have a deposit . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | They did n't talk to me I mean I did talk to they because |
| 24 | Whether they have too much or what they have but , I mean they 're just they just think everybody owes them something , and it 's like Neil , I mean , to me I mean I ca n't see why he ca n't get off his backside and go and work in a supermarket but it 's not the job they want , the same answer I said |
| 25 | Well it looks to me I mean I , it , it 's five days since I was in Manchester so |
| 26 | Mm well I , I mean really I want him to tell me I mean she implies that I 'm gon na get , you know , back fully back to normal but I I 'm beginning to wonder myself |
| 27 | But you know it surprises me I mean I know the church is , is closed and it 's been closed for a couple of years now and it looks a sight because now I do n't know how many members they 've got , at least a couple of them could go in there and cut all the brambles down . |
| 28 | Even as he spoke to me I felt very uneasy . |
| 29 | She proposes consequently the following paraphrase of I was sorry to fail : If I had known this : this will happen to me ( I will fail ) I would have thought this : this will be bad , I will feel sorry when I thought this : I know this now : it happened to me I felt it ( sorry ) |
| 30 | Windsfield straight into New Invention and every Wednesday night , first it was the cows that would come and then the sheep and they 'd got to walk to the abattoir at Bloxwich , and erm sometimes the cows were so heavy with milk that er a lot of people in New Invention had free milk and then if the , if the sheep would be here there and everywhere you know and then with mother living where there was an entry dividing four houses er and a well straight at the top , and a. a big old-fashioned er tap for the cold water , there were n't any taps laid in kitchen in er what are the outhouses it was a communal tap erm sometimes the sheep would get out of hand and they 'd run up the entry hall and all round mother 's yard and then the cows would go around , but er it , it to me I felt sorry about it , because especially in the summer er erm the poor things were so hot and to walk all those miles , now they 're carried are n't they and they used to every Wednesday every Wednesday of the year the drivers would er the men must have been absolutely tired out , well although they 'd be used to it would n't they , but it was miles to walk from Wolverhampton the cattle market to Blox straight to Bloxwich and er that was another event that erm it , we , it , we used to have . |