Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was so sure I got silver that I congratulated Lance and climbed out of the pool , ’ he commented as this one Gold medal verdict more than any helped speed acceptance of the touch-pad timing that has now become standard . |
| 2 | This whole process gave my life an additional fullness which has gone on gathering momentum since I left school . |
| 3 | I invariably gain weight if I 've eaten rice the evening before because it retains water and is often served with spicy food which is dehydrating . |
| 4 | I lose weight when I go there because there 's absolutely nothing good to eat and , even if there were , it would cost too much . |
| 5 | Will you buy champagne if I cook dinner tonight ? |
| 6 | For the first time in my life I tasted champagne and I did not care for it very much because I was a complete and absolute non-drinker at the time , I would like to warn anybody that this was something which did not last for very long : I have since acquired an insatiable thirst and desire for champagne . |
| 7 | Er I do n't know shorthand but I thought y somebody who did know shorthand would probably have a less hard time than I do writing down notes . |
| 8 | ‘ If you touch that fish I 'll have you up the steps before you can say Jack Robinson , ’ hissed Herbie , going blue in the face ‘ Whaddya mean , ’ argued Lofty , ‘ I found im and I got ta licence . ’ |
| 9 | I cry , and I reach out and , lo and behold , I touch wood and I know that it 's one of the posts which hold up the catwalk . |
| 10 | I found work but I did n't tell them I had nowhere to stay , that when it was night time , I got on the night buses and stayed there until morning and then went back to work . |
| 11 | ‘ I WOULD LIKE TO TRY BONDAGE BUT I DO N'T KNOW HOW TO GO ABOUT IT . ’ |
| 12 | I started taking smack at school , 'cos everyone in the — estate at that time was taking it and that was the only place you could buy pot and I sent one of me mates out from school one day to buy some speed and he come back with smack and said this is all I could get and I said I do n't want none of that , but in the end we ended up doing it because we was bored and we had nothing else to do . |
| 13 | It was a part of becoming adult that I grew aware of the great invisible universe of personality which controls us as surely as do physical laws . |
| 14 | ‘ I just stopped voting when I came here , ’ says a disabled woman in residential care . |
| 15 | That does n't really describe Denim but I think it does have a quality , something inhuman and plastic and mechanical . |
| 16 | But if it had been irradiated , well , let us put it this way , I would n't buy food if I knew it was irradiated . |
| 17 | We were driving north and I saw it at once . |
| 18 | Yeah , I know it still needs treatment but I mean it 'll try and get the swelling down a bit . |
| 19 | You shall see it will fall pat as I told you ’ ( V.i.185ff . ) . |
| 20 | The women used to wear sari and I have never seen a lately with anything but sari , but now they have started wearing the Punjabi dress . |
| 21 | I think he was nonplussed when I did but , after all , I 'm usually given lunch when I 've preached . |
| 22 | I think that all that can be said , has been said Chairman and I think that prudence is the leadership today . . |
| 23 | Well , well I think I would , I would rath it I mean i it they 've got the responsibility to whistle blow now , you know , professional they 've got , er you know , they 're they these are professionals and they should , they should whistle blow and I mean Maxwell is a perfect example of how nobody , nobody blew the whistle and if you read through the writs , those lots of these people knew what were what was happening an and the whistle should have been blown and I see no reason why the why the pension regulator is going to get any different , different response and also I mean really these people are being in many cases given by th given information by their clients , you know , and I think it 's a very difficult situation to turn round to , to somebody like Mr Maxwell and say well look I 'm terribly sorry Mr Maxwell , we 're going to report you to the pensions regulator , you know and I think that , that er you will just find that that I just do n't feel that the pension regulator in , in that respect , I mean I , I think that I might like to if Peter suggested a pension fraud squad that , that had a open telephone line and the same sort of er powers as the Serious Fraud Office you know , so that if er anybody in a pension fund could , could ring a number and er and people absolutely descended th that , I mean they ge they say somewhere in the report that the pension regulator is going to have er powers and monies to do spot checks . |
| 24 | Michael : It 's about sportsman and when he was seven he was a good football player and then when I was about ten or eleven I went swimming and then when I was about eleven I dived in without any — urn — with no water in the pool so I got eye-sighted and then , when I was about fourteen it was I played snooker and I had to do the strokes really good because I was eye-sighted . |
| 25 | like a slowly mending fracture as I thread the car |
| 26 | Thus it is that some of the Khans may perceive influence where I have exerted none . ’ |
| 27 | It 's when people are opinionated , as opposed to having a properly argued opinion that I lose patience with them . |
| 28 | After twenty months of fighting , where twenty times I should have died [ Raymond Jubert admitted ] I have not yet seen war as I imagined it . |
| 29 | I just got me coal and I was looking solvent and I 've only got so many weeks and I 've got to empty the stupid thing again . |
| 30 | Andrew agreed , and told Service that I had gone to China and was engaged in broadcasting work there . |