Example sentences of "[subord] i [modal v] [verb] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've made them eat everything I do , so I can tell you the food is n't tampered with . |
| 2 | Devastated I may be , but I 'm damned if I 'll give her the satisfaction of hearing me beg for mercy . |
| 3 | Yes , he replied , if I would send him the postage . |
| 4 | The low style is surely recalled by the colloquial " " Hé " " given to God and St Peter as noted above , and the high by the description of the young wife in Les Trois Boçus : ( a beautiful girl So beautiful that she was a delight And if I should tell you the truth I do not think that Nature ever made Any more beautiful creature . ) |
| 5 | Right , let me see if I can get it the same . |
| 6 | ‘ Still alive , and wanting to marry me again — as if I 'd give him the chance ! ’ |
| 7 | It has become apparent on some of the issues , some of the comments that we made that was if I could call it the you 'll know what we 're talking about and I do n't if we are talking about the there was there was a point somewhere where talked about ing an increase or short of journey time along the ring road and this has been taken as I understand to be that we are setting out an increase of speed er traffic on the sections of road to a junction and that 's totally in force and it was either . |
| 8 | Perhaps if I could remember them the whole mystery would be solved . |
| 9 | Tomorrow or the day after I will send you the merchandise [ that was the way Modi always referred to his paintings ] . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've threatened to shut the hotel down before I 'll give them the 12 per cent they 're asking for . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm sure you can , but why bother when I can save you the trouble ? |
| 12 | It occurred to me this was not an ideal arrangement ; I had a funny , cold feeling in the middle of dinner that perhaps we had been wrong to delay matters until this last moment , where there could be no immediate follow-up , when I must leave him the next day . |
| 13 | I think it 's debatable how selfish people really are , particularly when they see that their are short-term selfishness may in fact create long-term problems for themselves , for their children , for their grandchildren , for er other generations and other peoples , and really as I can see it the green message is one of enlightened self-interest . |