Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] i [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tried projecting negative of Bride from holograph enlarger , he wrote , but image thin and weak where I want it strong ( though indeterminate ) . |
| 2 | I do not favour either approach above the other but am using each where I feel it is most illuminating . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Now erm for next oh something else as well I 'm not sure whether you sign this or I do it erm right what 's the date is it about twenty eighth ? |
| 5 | Things we think you might be interested or I think you might be interested in talking about this morning . |
| 6 | ‘ We must be true with one another or I fear I shall go quite … ’ |
| 7 | It was so clear that I knew I 'd been blind . |
| 8 | ‘ I just want to make clear that I pay you every correctitude for what you were involved in there . ’ |
| 9 | One more person would n't make any difference to the arrangements , for Rob had thought it wise to cater for up to eight extra guests — ‘ Just in case I 'm more popular than I think I am , ’ he 'd laughed . |
| 10 | ‘ You 're so slim that I thought you might be one of those women who are on a perpetual diet , and I dislike intensely dining with someone who eats like a sparrow . ’ |
| 11 | He was real old so I suppose he had trouble with his false teeth or summat , but anyway , it was pretty disgusting watching him eat . |
| 12 | I am afraid that I told him to go away and not be silly . |
| 13 | ‘ She would n't tell me , but was very insistent that I call her the minute you got in . ’ |
| 14 | The staff all know what 's got to be done and they go off and do it ; it 's just when jobs are different that I give them any guidance . |
| 15 | Its complete lack of any taste was so nauseating that I spat it out and decided to eat the rest of the bread by itself I was finishing this when there was the sound of boots in the passage again . |
| 16 | But I was young and Scottish and I thought I was the greatest . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'll feel better about all this if I know you 've got it . ’ |
| 18 | What am I most likely to get out of this if I do it ? |
| 19 | Twelve thou , you see , I 'm just wondering whether I should quote on a C I F basis which I can do you see , on the basis of , this if I add it up . |
| 20 | she told them that , that 's mine , she told them that I did n't think much of this and I thought it was a rip off |
| 21 | The conductor will say , ‘ So that I can communicate my ideas to the orchestra ’ ; and the orchestra will say , ‘ So that he can learn the repertory at our expense ’ ; and the manager will say , ‘ Because I am paying for all this and I insist you rehearse . ’ |
| 22 | I knew this and I knew it was a weakness in him and I should not put up with it . |
| 23 | I feel you can do this and I know you I think you know you can do this . |
| 24 | And given the fact do n't forget , it 's always worth remembering this and I 've I 've made , I 'll be making the point later on . |
| 25 | ‘ Any more of this and I think we might end up regretting it ! ’ |
| 26 | Now yes this is very very welcome indeed , but I do see it Mr Chairman in the experience of the past and that really with the hard work that you both have put in as a piece of paper it is now in the computer as far as I can see and I think there is a term now within agriculture and I will give you an example of this and I think it now , it may apply I think to our road system particular particularly in the north , north Suffolk , yeah I think the term is set-aside , and I hope that some time central government will acknowledge that within this eastern region certainly the Lowestoft area and Waking area we have very great problems , because these pieces of jigsaw do not come into the full picture , they 're put in place now and then and later and in apparent it is giving us a very great problem certainly within the last |
| 27 | The methods that she uses erm , and I think this needs to be done well before a disaster , unfortunately so often people only react at times like this and I think it 's such a pity that they do n't do it beforehand , but it 's working on basic assertiveness skills , communications skills like giving a language for feelings , erm building up support for each other , plus the creative work — getting things down |
| 28 | I have thought a long time about this and I think I know the answer . |
| 29 | He said : ‘ I have been waiting for the last three years for an opportunity like this and I see it as the right time in my career to take it . |
| 30 | Mike in the audience and he 'll probably give me a rollicking afterwards , cos I have n't prepared anything about this and I suspect I wo n't be able to speak till the red light . |