Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PS I am attaching the relevant sections of the script |
| 2 | Possibly due to my lack of marquetry expertise I was drawn towards the three veneer section , and E.J. Higgs ‘ Light Music ’ ( left ) won third prize in the class . |
| 3 | I remember when a bee was in my hair I 'm running ah ! |
| 4 | So of his falling in love with Mrs Moore we are merely informed that ‘ even if I were free to tell the story , I doubt if it has much to do with the subject of this book , ’ and of his father 's death in the late summer of 1929 that this ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |
| 5 | No wonder , then , that when he came to write up the experience in Surprised by Joy he should have been so insistent that his father 's last illness and death ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |
| 6 | In The French Lieutenant 's Woman ( 1969 ) , John Fowles ( or a version of him ) intrudes famously — or notoriously — into chapter thirteen to discuss his tactics and emphasize that ‘ this story I am telling is all imagination . |
| 7 | I did actually get over to work for them in 1968–70 and 1971 , but this story I am referring to was in 1967 when I was just paying a visit and was given a bed for the night in the hostel . |
| 8 | The story I 'm working on started with the idea of what it would be like to break your glasses on holiday . |
| 9 | ‘ I mean facts that relate to the story I 'm working on at the time . |
| 10 | That 's the story I was thinking you were doing it today erm it 's called the green knight , but he has a name does n't he ? |
| 11 | Indeed the BBC does send urgent tapes in taxis and you are supposed to avoid tube trains but the story I was told gave a different explanation . |
| 12 | With with your permission I 'm gon na ask Mr if he can recall the argument . |
| 13 | After the Danish referendum I am tempted to ask : What new Europe ? |
| 14 | One Croat student said : ‘ On the day of the referendum I was woken up very early in the morning . |
| 15 | ‘ The board I 'm going to make for you will be a masterpiece ’ , Michael said . |
| 16 | But this , I think , will , in the class of case I am considering , be very rare . |
| 17 | ‘ Dottore , I strongly resent the assumption that anybody is in a position to dictate to me what is or is not relevant to a case I am investigating . |
| 18 | ‘ They are my bodyguards , Sir John , my assistants in case I am attacked . ’ |
| 19 | NORMALLY I insist on using the names of people who contact me for help , but in this case I am making an exception . |
| 20 | As a young person , I am often quite afraid to go out on the streets in case I am approached by one of these grey-haired vandals and informed how much worse the world is these days or interrogated as to why young people do n't have any respect anymore . |
| 21 | For instance , erm erm a good illustration of this is Locke 's erm erm argument on the right of inheritance and erm in this case I am quoting from the first treatise of government the right a son has to be maintained , has to be maintained and provided with the necessary the necessities and conveniences of life out of his father 's stock gives him a right to succeed to his father 's property for his own good but this can give him no right to succeed also to the rule which his father had over other men . |
| 22 | I give you my word there will be one , if it 's the last case I am allowed to handle . ’ |
| 23 | In my own case I was given a section — a small area in the central division — with just over 300 crimes per year . |
| 24 | In this case I was chairing a " Report Extra Special " , as well as editing it . |
| 25 | ‘ In any case I was born in World 's End , everyone there has been very good to me . ’ |
| 26 | But you dare n't take the risk of trying it on in case I was calling your bluff and would refuse you . |
| 27 | I was a little unsettled by the fury of the blizzard , and hugged the top of the ridge all the way along , but avoided taking in the top due west of Cairn Gorm in case I was blown off my feet . |
| 28 | I just wanted a reason for having been out , in case I was caught coming back . ’ |
| 29 | Shortly after the case I was walking down the street and a policeman went past , laughed sneeringly and said , ‘ Got you , did n't we ? ’ |
| 30 | When they reached their van they drove off a short distance in case I was observing them . |