Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to . |
| 2 | I would be most grateful if you would telephone and speak to either Heidi or me to let me know if and when this would be convenient for you . |
| 3 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
| 4 | I read everything I could find about France ( since France was my dream country , where I felt I 'd been meant to be born and grow up … ) and developed a particular passion for the French Revolution , reading all the Scarlet Pimpernel books , the story of the first Madame Tussaud , forced to model the guillotined heads , and everything that I could find that would bring it all to life . |
| 5 | But where I go I do n't need them . |
| 6 | ‘ For six years you have dogged me wherever I went and now you have turned up here , where I thought I had found a safe haven . ’ |
| 7 | And I do n't where I got I gave him quite a good sermon which I thought was y know quite erm to try and help the situation and he said I 'd give them er my conditions . |
| 8 | It is the text , however , where I fear I must fault the guide at times . |
| 9 | In the part of town where I live I see strangers who I would call truly beautiful at least once a day . |
| 10 | Knowing this , I was still impotent , for I had nothing to put in its stead , no one to turn to for advice or support , and I had learned for myself nothing of life except that I was bad at living , and that where I loved I met only rejection and disaster . |
| 11 | I think one of the biggest problems we 've got or I 've I 've had in the last couple of years is that we 've got so many primary schools that we get children from Spring Gardens and Western are now producing national curriculum information for which Marian has got . |
| 12 | Erm I 'm going to or I 've I 've started every time a recording comes in making a note of where it 's from and what type of recording it is , |
| 13 | ‘ Get off me , or I swear I will ! ’ |
| 14 | I want the pair of you dressed and off this train in five minutes — or I swear I 'll drag you off in your pyjamas ! ’ |
| 15 | ‘ We must be true with one another or I fear I shall go quite … ’ |
| 16 | Or I thought I heard these words , for Captain was growling so fiercely , I was n't sure . |
| 17 | See my dad likes videos and things like that but he wa he , I know he likes aftershave , he likes that Old Spice and that so I thought well I 'll get him something like that or I thought I sort of saw cos I 'm going shopping Saturday , I 'm trying to get it all Saturday if I can . |
| 18 | Or I mean I think he 's , she 's bitten him before , if he had any sense he 'd leave them at the gate or something , I mean somebody would go for them . |
| 19 | When it was rephrased , ‘ Do you ever find yourself saying , I wish 1 could do this better or I wish I knew more about that ? ’ it was more easily understood . |
| 20 | ‘ Norman Lamont is a good friend of the NHS and I am sure — or I think I am sure — that he will prove it , ’ Mr Clarke said . |
| 21 | The third floor was a no-smoking floor or I think I might have started smoking again after six years ' abstinence . |
| 22 | Yes , why I am asking you or I did I say |
| 23 | or I found I preferred men instead . ’ |
| 24 | We went through many dark passages until we reached a door , where she left me , taking her candle with her . |
| 25 | Tired and confused after the journey , I followed the servant into a large building , where she left me in a sitting-room . |
| 26 | The lady prioress glowered at me , shrugged , and with ill grace took me back to her own chamber across the cloister garden where she poured me the smallest goblet of wine I had ever seen . |
| 27 | She was so beautiful that I just melted and we went to this tiny little room , where she washed me . |
| 28 | With a karate chop to the nape of my neck , my masseuse gets me back where she wants me . |
| 29 | " There are witnesses here seeing you threaten me . " |
| 30 | If I 'd found out where you went I 'd have caught you at it . ’ |