Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [pers pn] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 'Cause when you hurt yourself or I touch you you go crying to mummy saying that daddy 's hurt you do n't you ? |
| 2 | Open it quickly , or I warn you I shall burst ! ’ |
| 3 | He thinks nothing of staying up till two or three o'clock in the morning in casinos , although I tell him it 's very , very bad for one 's constitution to have irregular hours . |
| 4 | I had started knowing nothing about houses , nothing about building , precious little about planning , and I ended up — although I say it myself — pretty well informed . |
| 5 | ( I was getting quite good then , although I say it myself ) and I said : ‘ Now the King is here . |
| 6 | He did n't interfere here , Uncle saw to that , so I 've had a free hand in the shop and although I say it myself I 've made a go of it . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Although I say it myself , I 'm pretty good with a tin-opener . ’ |
| 8 | I 'm also concerned that if they went down School Lane , although I think it you know I understand they 've got to go to Norwood Gardens and things , that with the car park at The Plough now being blocked I mean School Lane at peak times for schools is a nightmare . |
| 9 | He started wearing women 's clothes , he started putting on make-up and on the last couple of times that I saw him he was pretty strange . |
| 10 | And it is with every confidence that I tell you I am sure that this young couple will have a very happy marriage , and I would ask you to join me in wishing them both a long , happy , and prosperous future together . |
| 11 | Marie , you , you 're popular on highest scores on reflector as well that I mean you what did you think about that ? |
| 12 | Peter Noonan has been patiently waiting in the wings for six years , and finally , whether it was seeing Terry so happy , realising that she was n't getting any younger , or the fact that I told her I was thinking of getting married , sh — ’ |
| 13 | When you asked how Tom and the children were , you must have thought it odd that I told you what Tom , and Alison and Cheryl were doing without really mentioning Peter . |
| 14 | it 's just that I like it you know . |
| 15 | One of my reasons for becoming involved in Westland was that I felt in some respects that I owed them something . |
| 16 | He added a postscript in his own hand : ‘ I pray you that ye fail me not at this time in my great need , as ye will that I show you my good lordship in that matter that ye labour to me for . ’ |
| 17 | He added a postscript in his own hand : ‘ I pray you that ye fail me not at this time in my great need , as ye will that I show you my good lordship in that matter that ye labour to me for . ’ |
| 18 | It 's not that I begrudge you your father 's royalties . |
| 19 | I answered him with lies , happy that he was so interested after I 'd been certain that he 'd never say a word to me : I told him that I grew it myself , my family grew it , and it was everywhere like green grass and empty milk bottles in London ; it was really amazing hashish. wherever I threw its seeds it sprang up like flames leaping into the air . |
| 20 | All I know is that by the time we had entered into residence again that autumn , we found we had made so little progress , and had remained so vague about our aims that , one evening , Harold Mason and I , who had seen more of each other than we did anyone else in the group , resolved to abandon the project altogether ; and I therefore wrote to Eliot , from whom I had not heard further , telling him that our plan had made so little headway that I felt it my duty to tell him not to trouble himself any more . |
| 21 | I knew what he was getting at , of course , and I was so hurt that he should think he had to approach me in such a roundabout fashion — as if I was a terrible , uncharitable woman who had to be coaxed into a simple act of kindness — that I suggested it myself at once , though it was really the last thing I wanted . |
| 22 | It 's only when I 'm writing an article that I give it its proper name ! |
| 23 | No , er we 're proposing that we just do , take this reso , in other words , if you endorse the fact that I say I I sa committed the |
| 24 | That I think you I think most people find it more difficult having to group the notes in the right , in exactly the right way . |
| 25 | Yes I know that fifty pee that I owe you I have n't forgotten about it . |
| 26 | He did n't I knows that I knows it I knows it . |
| 27 | She told me no one seemed to be wearing jumpers with the car 's name on them , so I made her one without charge . |
| 28 | Why such a bizarre notion should have entered her head I can not imagine , but I did not like to disillusion her , so I told her what I could . |
| 29 | Did n't want to talk to me , so I told her she 'd have to wait . ’ |
| 30 | By that time they were bad , so I told her I thought I was having a miscarriage . |