Example sentences of "[vb -s] i [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A classic example is the agoraphobic housewife whose husband is , ‘ really wonderful , very sympathetic and understanding … he does everything for me … he comes around all the shops with me and drives me wherever I want to go ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ It beats me why you want to fly with us at all , Gabriel , ’ Rogers said . |
| 3 | Beats me why you would want to know though … unless you 're a secret hammers fan ! |
| 4 | " Beats me why he had to stick his neck out . |
| 5 | It beats me how he can describe opposition to military occupation as ‘ aggression ’ . |
| 6 | What amazes me though he just do n't seemed to of . |
| 7 | So , of course , we were getting a little bit panicky cos what 's worrying me , and it still worries me again we 've put all this time and effort in they may pay us alright , we 've got this twenty , they may pay us a second payment , but are they gon na pay up on the third ? |
| 8 | A constable in Easton once said , ‘ If anything gets me down it 's bloody sociology . |
| 9 | when yes you have best of both and she did n't like it and sh so she do n't oh oh she 's gets me down herself . |
| 10 | If I promise to let you know if your brother-in-law contacts me surely you 'll call off this business of staying together like two ill-matched peas in one small pod ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I take note of what surrounds me wherever I go . ’ |
| 12 | Because one person lets me down it does n't mean I 'm unloveable ’ . |
| 13 | No I always think I mean it it just annoys me though I think I get well I just get I just think it 's a waste of the day . |
| 14 | She always tells me when she 's wet her pants , and understands everything that 's said to her , so why wo n't she cooperate on this ? |
| 15 | She tells me how her mum and dad know everything there is to know about fish , and tried to teach her . |
| 16 | Meanwhile band manager Charles Cosh tells me how they 're going to crack America . |
| 17 | One day , thought Preston , one glorious day when someone asks me how I am , I shall tell them . |
| 18 | Every couple of months he takes me aside and , his breath sweet with trapped drink , asks me how I am . |
| 19 | He asks me how I am . |
| 20 | The Minister of State asks me how I know . |
| 21 | A little bit but she really winds me up she does . |
| 22 | Paddy always reminds me how he had an offer of a job new I would n't go |
| 23 | It escapes me why he has n't had a spell in the reserves to shake him up a bit . |
| 24 | That 's what puts me off me work really . |
| 25 | I pick up the scissors because I 'm alone in the shop and if he touches me again he 'll leave without something he came in with , when the bell goes on the door and this other boy in a city suit comes in , boring yuppie sort . |
| 26 | I said I would make them a hundred butterfly cakes , and they either they 'll eat them or they 'll sell them , and I 'll hav I 'll try and have them ready for when rings up at half past one and if they sell them and she brings me any I would n't mind knocking a few more up for tomorrow , but I 'm not gon na give them all |
| 27 | Whoever comes , brings me in we 'll open those . |