Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [conj] i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I say merely that I know nothing of your late wife . |
| 2 | I mean just cos I want I , just , just cos you want out of here , I 'm not gon na accept any old place |
| 3 | I mean yesterday after I had me dinner I dropped off to sleep for a couple of hours cos |
| 4 | yes , well I used to read a lot of story books , travel avidly and I think I forget all about the author and the story , but I remember one portion where they discovered a depression in the middle of a continent where it was in excess of and they 'd grown quite a different specie |
| 5 | I run now when I see him coming . |
| 6 | Did they di do you think they I was going to say enjoy there but I do I do n't think that 'd be the right word , but d did they like or did they prefer to work piece work or was it something that they loathed or I mean there was more money to be made at it was n't there ? |
| 7 | or stand there while I read you Robert Burns . ’ |
| 8 | I was scared of them but I was n't going to let them get away so I gave them a good run for their money . |
| 9 | so that we got , cos say you have a lot of holidays , so that when we get there as I say we ai n't got ta go out and shop and get stuff , we 've got bacon and egg |
| 10 | And it 's not fair to say it 's because of the beard because the beard 's not my fault , they just did n't shave in the jungle in whatever century it 's going to be when we get there and I know I grew it early but that 's the way I am , I like to start thinking myself into the part as soon as possible . |
| 11 | Thee will not think I talk figuratively when I tell thee that his pine apple stove is sixty feet long , twenty feet wide and height proportionable . |
| 12 | I smile indulgently as I watch her write a shopping list on a document drawn up in my own hand . |
| 13 | This , I believe now that I examine it , is because underneath this thought , like a warm underblanket , is a reassuring additional thought , viz : |
| 14 | Well let me put it to you like this , I feel sometimes that I need something , |
| 15 | I mean even when I smoked I did . |
| 16 | Like , go away and I get my dinner ! |
| 17 | I watched water the colour of the Thames at low tide drain away while I dried myself , and felt the horror of last night drain away with it . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh Mam , for God 's sake ! shut up , and go home before I lose my temper . |
| 19 | Turn left when I tell you , right ? |
| 20 | Before leaving the child in time-out say : ‘ You stay here until I tell you . ’ |
| 21 | The slide was Michael 's favourite : ‘ I like the big slide because you go fast and I like it . |
| 22 | I nod discreetly as I pass her , expecting no response . |
| 23 | I do so because I believe she has been made a scapegoat for what happened . |
| 24 | Yes , well I hope they do anyway cos I think it |
| 25 | Aye anyway I says seeing 's it 's you I 'll go and tell him and I come upstairs so I come downstairs and I says he 's asleep , he says the idle get . |
| 26 | I think historically although you know historians can much better than me , erm historically maybe the way that the rock has been worked with a bagging system and it was you know and lots of quarry men had little bits of farm as well around Blaenau especially and you get a feeling er from reading about it that er you know they have a an almost self employed attitude to their to their work and their rock and the fact that er they 'd do it in their own you know wor work the rock in a certain way and this and very sort of proud erm of their work and that and From talking a lot to them and being close to you know it you feel that that that 's still very much the same really you know there is this sort of close relationship and that with their em employers there was you know a lot of you know was n't it was n't straight it as straight as you said a straight employer employee relationship that they was A lot of s sort of er give and take probably and I think they were outraged at this sort of McGregor type tactic really that you know this new machine . |
| 27 | ‘ Come here while I teach you how we fought in those days . ’ |
| 28 | you did , you 're the cleverest girl in the world are n't you ? there 's your space suit where are you ? , come here while I pull your pants up , pants up first , pants up first lets run some water wait a minute your trousers are not pulled up right both hands in a little bit of soap on , now rub them together good rinse , get all the soap off , right shake , rattle and roll , hands washed , I mean dried sorry |
| 29 | Come here till I show you a real fighting man ! ’ |
| 30 | I heard my name being called , it may well have been Louis erm come forward and I heard it , I understood it to be P C voice . |