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

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1 It was : ‘ Either he goes or I go ’ .
2 He said , ‘ Either your mother goes or I go . ’
3 SINGER Michael Bolton 's wedding plans are at risk after his lover , L A Law actress Nicolette Sheridan , told him : ‘ The straggly long hair goes or I go . ’
4 I see myself as one of these animals , and I await with resignation but with confidence the moment when either I live out my life as providence decrees or I die as prescribed , convinced that I shall thus be useful in two ways , first to France and then to humanity .
5 And in fact , if we look at even more , I mean where I work is a Family Centre in Berinsfield erm and I interviewed erm some of the carers of young children , and most of the women I interviewed had , in fact , been subjected to marital violence by their male partners and in many ways this had been triggered off by arguments over who should take care of the children and over the woman not being in her place , so although it 's important to maybe look at the macro level , I really think we have to look at how men and women behave towards one another , particularly where child care is concerned .
6 And I lay where I fell , fighting to hold back the tears which threatened to engulf me .
7 My flower — the one that I remember best out of many — was gathered where I said it had been .
8 They did n't allow me to sit where I chose .
9 So I set about a solution which has led to healthy plants which remain where I want them — despite being planted in very high flow undergravel filters .
10 Mr McCloy gave me a free hand to go where I chose , bar the two big outhouses .
11 colour this is not going to go where I want it to go .
12 The passport office in Liverpool issued me with a new passport , and , though I had made dozens of requests to the army for a vehicle , BBC Radio Manchester succeeded where I had failed .
13 In fact I mean you can buy or I mean you 've got the record of erm how far back , you could invite all the existing , living parish councillors , so far as we could , and , and that , that would be , I think that would be fascinating .
14 Every time I come here I begin to worry that I have somehow crossed into another stream and am sailing back in the opposite direction .
15 ‘ And , for your information , I 've long wished that I 'd never heard of you — or your wretched grandmother .
16 Since those days I have sometimes wished that I had been able to record on tape the conversations I had with Gilbert Harding , who was an intellectual .
17 I 've often wished that I had stayed on and tried for university , but I was n't keen , and my family was n't the sort to encourage it .
18 And there is no point denying that I suffer from Denial , because this means only that I am guilty of Deep Denial .
19 But when she writes or herself , her tone is almost girlish : ‘ The romantic world seems to have supposed that I kissed the sculptor last week .
20 ‘ I would not for a moment have it supposed that I mean anything derogatory to Dr. Yeats … but human nature is fallible .
21 The crowd gave a good send-off to the latter when he was substituted so I suppose he did well .
22 I proposed that I teach one woman what I knew so that she could teach the others after we got more machines .
23 Do you know that I eat little boys like you for breakfast ? "
24 ‘ Did you know that I married six months after you did ?
25 ‘ Oh , ’ sighed Babushka , ‘ I am too late but I shall lay my black bread in the manager , then the Christ Child will know that I came .
26 ‘ I do n't know that I approve of quite so much black silk leg on view , but otherwise you look wonderful . ’
27 Er I mean , you will know that I wrote a book called No time for Ostriches in when I was on the back benches , in favour of work fare .
28 ‘ How do you know that I knew Elise ? ’ he asked in a low voice .
29 N do n't know that I know just the whisky barrels they were , a little I believe there was maybe a name for them .
30 Because I let them know that I know .
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