Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've never asked me , not once , how anything has gone , or where I 've been or whom I 've seen . " |
| 2 | We sat on our stools and I smiled at him , thinking he was going to ask me about my dress or where I lived or something , and he said , ‘ Who 's your favourite philosopher ? ’ |
| 3 | You have n't even enquired about my holiday or where I spent it . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It 's real strange but I do n't feel cheated or that I deserved something and did n't get it ’ . |
| 5 | Or that I 've got a vagina . |
| 6 | Or that I 've been involved in a murder . |
| 7 | Not that he ever mentions it , or that I 've ever asked him , but he 's the type to consider it a sacred duty to have everything in order for every emergency . ’ |
| 8 | Did he know that she 'd revealed his habit of farting as he came , or that I had once worn his pyjamas while she blew me ? |
| 9 | I thought I 'd either holed my shot or that I had missed the green as well . ’ |
| 10 | Did you know , for instance , that I led Birdman on Kilnsey Crag , or that I spent several days top-roping and practising Zero on Idwal 's Suicide Wall ? |
| 11 | no confidence who cares , you know , whether I pass or that I mean |
| 12 | Or that I killed and mutilated a half-mad witch ? ’ |
| 13 | As I suppose was inevitable , the story gradually became that Eric would set fire to them , not just their pet dogs ; and , as was probably also inevitable , a lot of kids started to think that I was Eric , or that I got up to the same tricks . |
| 14 | He thought my parents were pressurising me to dress this way , or that I 'd gone mad . |
| 15 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 16 | It was n't that my shoulders are broader than anyone else 's or that I have the most understanding nature in the world . |
| 17 | I wondered what would have happened if I had told him that I was bisexual or that I liked little girls . |
| 18 | ‘ I was , frankly , surprised , but did n't take very long to make up my mind that this was not an invitation you could refuse … or that I wanted to refuse . ’ |
| 19 | And also I used to notice that there were quite a lot of em empty window , you know , in the flats , and erm you know I just got a feeling that this was really where I I found that I would be able to work , or that I wanted to work . |
| 20 | You do me great honor in proposing me as your President , & if I did not feel that my acceptance of this favour would tend much to defeat the laudable object of your pursuit I should most certainly gratify my own ambition , & have the pleasure to preside at your meetings . |
| 21 | I 'll be viewing the Methodist Church in quite a different way , but I think it 's very important for us to be made aware of how they do it erm for example , if you have erm a a or or and I do n't think any church has , are provided within that and gets alike . |
| 22 | Or until I die , of course . |
| 23 | Stay at Ivrigar for a time , or until I deem it safe to return . ’ |
| 24 | Of course she knew that Silas had inherited this property , but what she had n't realised was that I have the right to live in the house for my lifetime , or until I happen to marry again . |
| 25 | It really does n't matter if I 'm a nice guy or not , or if I wrote an awful book . |
| 26 | ‘ If I die , or if I disappear for more than three months , ’ the will began , ‘ I wish to leave everything I own to my dear friend Edward Hyde . ’ |
| 27 | You know when I , when I go to lift something , or if I use |
| 28 | In a case like this it is often a matter of assessing quickly ‘ Am I sure that I can reach the field , or if I get more sink will I fail to get there ? ’ |
| 29 | Or if I 'd seen it , I had n't taken it in . |
| 30 | ‘ If ever I succeed ’ he writes ‘ in bringing our native kings back to life in my songs , and Arthur who waged wars even under the earth , or if I tell of the splendid heroes of the table rendered invincible by their bond of comradeship and , oh if inspiration would but come to me , if I smash the Saxon phalanxes beneath the impact of the British . ’ |