Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] i [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there 's one thing that disgusts me it 's cold porridge . |
| 2 | Cos I remember once when they asked me at work to deliver the annual speech you know the man that asked me he says er , you know , they 've gone round everybody else and nobody else would do it and would I do it , and I said good lord , that were my first reaction , and I realized like all the company secretaries lo lord , so I did very well there |
| 3 | Now that disappointed me I know , because I knew from where I stood , that the stuff was practically worthless . |
| 4 | See it 's not the blues that bother me I do n't think it 's just the fact that there 's there might be trouble afterwards . |
| 5 | He said and that cost me he looked round , twenty two pound . |
| 6 | No the only thing that consumed me I was looking to see if there was anyway that material from the seat could be used to sort of target us for a mailing system or something like that |
| 7 | ‘ It was their manner that told me they had to be taken seriously . |
| 8 | At first I did n't believe her but there was something in her eyes that told me it was true . |
| 9 | " I sorry , " he said once again , in a hopeless voice that told me I had n't convinced him . |
| 10 | The thoughts that torment me I will forget . |
| 11 | I says no I ca n't , he says it 's not very far , I said it 's not the distance that bothers me it 's the fact that you want us to sit there till eleven o'clock at night and not get paid for it , he says yeah but if you want to say something , I says I 'd say something if I thought we 'd be backed on it , but we 're not , oh I 'm not going anywhere to be if I 'm not being paid |
| 12 | Yeah It was n't that it was n't the lumps that bothered me it was the uhum , the fact that the edges just does n't stay down . |
| 13 | Above all it was the thought of Lily that tortured me I had promised to write every day . |
| 14 | Erm shit that reminds me I 've got to write a letter . |
| 15 | Karen came and asked me I says alright . |
| 16 | So if we got erm yeah , so , yeah that I 'll , I 'll erm I 'll get Brenda to go get me a rec erm , a menu and send me it . |
| 17 | I 'd been in there four months and they came and told me they 'd gone to America . |
| 18 | When my master summoned me and told me you had written to him , at first I was angry with you for betraying my and I blessed you . |
| 19 | I said he came and told me you know |
| 20 | Everyone in the whole marine department just threw up their hands in horror and told me I was crazy , I did n't know the first thing about ships , the whole marine fleet would fall apart . |
| 21 | He came back the next day and gave me another £1.2 million and told me I could spend it in any way I wanted . |
| 22 | ‘ But the boss used to give me some right stick and told me I was no good to him lying in bed or on the treatment table . |
| 23 | ‘ But the boss used to give me some right stick and told me I was no good to him lying in bed or on the treatment table . |
| 24 | One day the screw came up and told me I had a visit down in the solicitor 's ; I went down and this man presented himself as a court welfare officer . |
| 25 | One night he drank a lot of whisky and told me I was gone off . |
| 26 | I was interviewed by the Sudan Agent in London who gave me lunch at his club , and told me I would be called before a selection board when I came down from Oxford . |
| 27 | His friend held my other hand and told me I 'd been brave . |
| 28 | Martin came in and told me I was supposed to be upstairs , Steve was has gone into where I was so |
| 29 | With a firm grip on my hand , she pulled me away from a display of hi-tech gadgets and told me I was not going to be a millionairess . |
| 30 | ‘ After Nicholl was sacked Ian Branfoot took over and told me I had no future under him . ’ |