Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Oh techniques of surveillance , when you 're sitting alone in a car you move into the passenger seat , make it look as if you 're waiting for the driver to come back … the trouble is , I never got a posting where I had to use it . ’ |
2 | Erm so we wish to thank them all , or I wish to thank them all very much for all their hard work and support they 've given me . |
3 | Now I feel so embarrassed and wish I did n't have breasts at all , or I try to hide them with baggy T-shirts . |
4 | And one thing we will learn from it I think , if we 're honest with ourselves , and we put , and try and save up and have a piece on the end there , but the one thing I think we will perhaps come to , and the one conclusion we may come to , is the fact that whilst we , we do live in this world and I absolutely agree that if somebody says , look I need to see a new as well , I need to see you now , or I need to see you tomorrow , that 'll be difficult , O K , and that 's the immediacy of the business . |
5 | except I forget to put it on and then he twiddles , twiddles with the er |
6 | I was grateful for the radio he had borrowed from the farmer , although I had to play it almost inaudibly , so as not to disturb him . |
7 | He says the fans are rather less impassioned than elsewhere in Italy , although I had to tell him that once , when Trevor Francis missed a penalty for Sampdoria , his car was bombarded and his son , Matthew , was struck by a stone . |
8 | ‘ It 's been a lifelong ambition of mine to beat him but at the big jump before Ballyboley Corner , Joey whizzed past me and although I tried to catch him again and take a tight line at Ballyboley he had just too much experience and he held on to beat me . |
9 | Changez and Jamila sat apart , and although I tried to catch them looking at each other , I can guarantee that not a single surreptitious glance was exchanged by the future bed-mates . |
10 | Although I have to confess I 've already been working on it . |
11 | Although I have to confess I wondered why he kept telling me about you . |
12 | And he looks a lot better for the change , although I have to tell you that by the time I had grilled him for an hour and tested him out on the snooker table I did notice that he reached for a cigarette . |
13 | Although Law , Charlton , Best etc. were on show , I was so scared of the mob around me I kept my head down most of the time , although I seem to remember we drew 2–2 . |
14 | At the same time , I was refusing for her to be brought to the prison because although I wanted to see her more than anything , I was damn sure she was n't going to come to prison and see me . |
15 | But now suppose that you know I am behind the tree , you are expecting me to leap out , and I know you know all that : I can still ( maybe ) frighten you by leaping out , just by getting you to realize that I intend to frighten you . |
16 | And everywhere else now that I come to mention it . ’ |
17 | I say I am bored , and that I hope to see him that evening . |
18 | This is to tell you that I hope to send you about 10 questionnaires on ELT dictionaries ( intermediate rather than advanced ) this week , for you and whoever else ( teachers or students — mixture if possible ) might be willing to fill them in . |
19 | However , on the first day that I got to know her I had a feeling that there was something peculiar about the woman . |
20 | Andrew Stavanger was compelled to turn to the bank for help after the dock strikes , and it was then that I got to know him . |
21 | I knew then that my last hours had come but was in such agony that I began to wish they would come sooner . |
22 | ‘ T is true that I came to warn you , but also to beg you to take me with you . ’ |
23 | So many people ply me with drinks in the D and F these days that I tend to remember them as I saw them , in a blur . |
24 | Lord Wittisham believes that I wish to marry him . |
25 | It was with great relish that I prepared to burn it down — while Charles and Dimity were conveniently away for a few days . |
26 | ‘ You will have guessed the first , ’ he resumed , masticating the thick coils of smoke , ‘ namely that I wished to inculcate you a little further in the understanding of my true nature , a little further but not too far — keep 'em guessing is my motto . |
27 | I went on to say to him that I wished to make it clear that my disquiet did not relate to any particular name , but if in fact the names that I had heard turned out to be a correct report , and he published the List , the List would support legitimate criticism . |
28 | By next morning I 'd only got as far as realising that I had to talk you round . ’ |
29 | Of course the main thing about the shoes was that I had to wear them all the time . |
30 | ‘ I 'm really very sorry that I had to leave you with my mother . |