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

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1 No , triumph will not suit me till I get to heaven …
2 I would n't know him if I tripped over him now . ’
3 ‘ What would you give me if I stood on that boulder on one leg ? ’ asked Christopher , eyeing a small rock on the extreme edge of the cliff .
4 Do you wan na watch it before I tape over it ?
5 I could do it when I thought of you in your house waiting to hear it all at my next visit .
6 ‘ I could do it if I wanted to , but I do n't want to , ’ he told a gathering of the Computer Journalists Club in Paris yesterday , as he held court on a range of topics , from the US government and economy , to the increasing pervasiveness of personal computer technology .
7 Like this I ca n't treat you as I wish to . ’
8 ‘ It 's funny , everybody could see me before I came to Spain . ’
9 He nodded and did not follow me as I got off the train .
10 ‘ So that , when he 'd done it , nobody would believe me when I said about us getting married .
11 I can touch you if I want to . ’
12 ‘ I 'll ring you when I get to New York . ’
13 I did n't even remember her until I read about her in the papers . ’
14 I could n't believe it when I went into the shop and saw hundreds of milk bottles scattered everywhere .
15 I 've not seen anything like it since I went to the cinema as a child . ’
16 Generally , most of the men did feel some guilt and disliked fiddling , but said , ‘ I do n't like it but I have to ’ .
17 And and erm if I I 'm hoping I 'll like it when I get in there , but something tells me I would .
18 Then she do n't like it when I snap at her .
19 He did n't like it when I went to Gesell direct .
20 pound fifty or something for like a shampoo and rinse I mean I 'd use it if I go in there .
21 Nothing could daunt me and I talked to everyone with the same message : ‘ Cancer was absolutely great because it put you in touch with yourself and the world . ’
22 Oh when I come in she said will you miss me when I go to Manchester .
23 So gradually I am claiming my philosophical estate and already believe in myself ; it would n't even surprise me if I turned into a poet .
24 Perhaps they bugged a dozen other people as well but they 'd only hear you and me talking about naming names on her bug .
25 " I 'll hate you if I want to . "
26 ‘ Anyway , she is my duchess — and I shall invite her if I wish to !
27 I did phone him when I got to Rio a couple of months later .
28 Now if lived in the Republic of Ireland I could join the Labour Party , but I ca n't join it because I live in Northern Ireland , right , but have a look at that motion , what you 're talking about .
29 Erm improving market share , well all of our businesses have improved their market share during this recession and I 'll , I 'll mention them as I go through the individual companies .
30 And as to Spasov and being saved — ‘ Il me semble que tout le monde va à Spassof ’ — there is still some comic devillife in him as he quotes the Saviour against his bible-selling saviour because she is taking thought for the morrow , and as he turns the gospel on its head with ‘ Happiness does n't pay me because I start at once forgiving all my enemies . ’
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