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

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1 ‘ To the well-deserving Gaius Seius I leave and wish to be granted in addition that neither from him nor from his heirs should be claimed whatever he owes me on the basis of documents or accounts or has borrowed from me or I have guaranteed for him . ’
2 I was in there nearly three years , or two and a half years anyway and , of course , I when I passed to go to the Q M of course , I , I used to do the Headmaster 's and all that but they , they could n't teach me any more because you , you can only have the same lessons as them that have been taught you know .
3 It was sad for me that I had fallen in love with someone who did not love me , but it was not an experience I cared to repeat — for more and better reasons than the fear of pain .
4 Well erm take it from me that I 've worked for for major American corporates and one major British corporate and er there is still something that you may miss all right .
5 I spent so much time with them that I began to think like them , to see the world from their point of view .
6 Before I tell them that I need to talk to the girl .
7 They said they were looking for me and I had to go with them back to the convent . ’
8 Yeah they got me and I had to turn into one of them octopus things .
9 Yet I knew there was something familiar about them , as if these ideas from far off generations had revived in me and I had come in contact with ancestral faces .
10 And my mum , my mum was sat in The Weathers with me and I 'd talked to her and everything and I did n't even know that that
11 ‘ I never felt that Jesus was a friend and I do n't think that I really ever loved him before this half but now he seems always near to me and I like to think of Him more than I ever did before Mama 's dying so suddenly and unexpectedly made a great impression on me … ’
12 Doing about sixty , seventy , normal speed , in hurry to get somewhere and er I I just sat there and erm all of a sudden I I thought I was miles past this other car and I started going in , just to let him go past , obviously and he 's I I did n't realise this other car was keeping up with me and I 've gone towards it and I thought sh I 'd looked in my mirror shit it 's still there !
13 I have felt embarrassed because I 've had to meet people afterwards who I who I who I care what they think about me and I 've put in the biggest load of old rubbish .
14 There was something lying on the ground in front of me and I tried to jump over it , but my feet would n't leave the ground and I sort of waded through it .
15 He said : ‘ It 's hard to get clothes to fit me and I have to go to the markets .
16 Harvey spent a lot of time in the office and apart from asking me if I 'd spoken to Dawlish — a suggestion which I impassively denied — he did n't say much to me until the morning of the third day , which was a Tuesday .
17 Oh yeah we walked past park cos he asked me if I wanted to go on swings and it led up to his back gate , well , you 've never seen me put a sigh of relief on me face , I went
18 ‘ He seemed very worried and asked me if I wanted to go with him , ’ she said .
19 Then he asked me if I wanted to go from that place .
20 She do n't ask me if I want to go with her , but even if she did I would n't go .
21 Now our Dawn told me cos I did say to her I said here I said er Bet did say that .
22 Somewhere in the back of my mind I think maybe I was afraid that they would find you although I had heard from you by that time and knew you could not possibly be there at the bottom of Loch Craig .
23 Then , not more than a week later , I was coming down the back corridor from the kitchen when Miss Kenton came out of her parlour and uttered a statement she had clearly been rehearsing ; this was something to the effect that although she felt most uncomfortable drawing my attention to errors made by my staff , she and I had to work as a team , and she hoped I would not feel inhibited to do similarly should I notice errors made by female staff .
24 For a couple of years she and I had knocked around the Mediterranean , then I had sailed her across the Atlantic .
25 I could have told you if I 'd wanted to .
26 If you do not , it will look very bad for you if I have to go to the police with this new piece of information about the letter . ’
27 ‘ Can I phone you if I need to speak to someone ? ’
28 But at a fundamental level there 's really little difference between you and I struggling to count on our fingers , and the most modern and sophisticated piece of computing wizardry .
29 Mr , you and I have debated in the past er in this room er whether or not exceptional circumstances are necessary to define an inset boundary for a village which in the sketch plan of the greenbelt to have been shown as washed over .
30 That 's what Ruth the relationship that Ruth enters into with Boaz and that 's the relationship that you and I have entered into with Jesus Christ he is our kinsman redeemer and he 's rescued us he 's taken us .
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