Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] i [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but you 're on about something else , you said the first thing I 'd do , that 's got nothing to do with Harold Wilson the first thing I if I were in power |
| 2 | Yes cos I when I was with B P for six years , a non-contributory pension scheme , I lost every you know |
| 3 | Ellen Orford in the poem is a middle-aged woman and it was fortuitous for me that I was about the right age — it 's not a part for a young soprano . |
| 4 | Not until I arrived on the 18th tee 1-down did it suddenly occur to me that I was on the point of losing . |
| 5 | I remember many occasions when friends would reassure me that I was like them , there were n't any differences . |
| 6 | I hardly knew how I was able to face it , either then or at any other time of my life in this mocking world , but I did , though it did not seem to me that I was in any way heroic — just the opposite , in fact . |
| 7 | It proved to me that I was in earnest , that I was truly resolved . |
| 8 | It did n't occur to me that I was in labour because it was too early . |
| 9 | She says Chris , that 's her in office , she 's told me that I 'm off the subsidy now , she says I 've been on it twelve week and er |
| 10 | Anyway , I learn quickly ; it showed me that I 'm on my own — my dear parents , bless them , are simply too pure and innocent to see what is so obvious to me . |
| 11 | All this mental harassment has affected me so much that my doctor has warned me that I 'm of the edge of a nervous breakdown . |
| 12 | Go and signal to them that I 'm on my way . ’ |
| 13 | Once a Met Officer remarked cheerfully to me ( from the warmth and light of the office ) , that the rats were much more frightened of me than I was of them , but I noticed that he did n't take me up on my suggestion that he should come out with me and see for himself . |
| 14 | There was no danger … he was more frightened of me than I was of him … but that 's not the point … if it had been an old lady … he coulde have given her a heart attack … |
| 15 | Having said that , the vague possibility that we may end this season by finishing bottom and going out of the League remains incomprehensible to me and I am at a loss to explain it . |
| 16 | ‘ The horse is new to me and I am in the process of sweetening him up , ’ Richards said , ‘ so it is impossible to rate him with my other winners . |
| 17 | Oh if I was me and I was on my own I 'd ha I 'd have to have the telly in the bedroom . |
| 18 | Well when we went there was Phyllis , Julie , and me and I was in the middle of because I 'd never been on ice skates before , I 'd been roller skating holding each side of them right , and they let me go and I just went and I was going down and I went bang right on the bloody side . |
| 19 | ‘ But several days later he came straight out with it and asked me if I was on the Pill and would I go on holiday to Scotland with him . |
| 20 | ‘ John came up to me , asked me if I was in pain then took hold of the jack , ’ said Mr Trueman , of Chaddesden , Derby . |
| 21 | IT NEVER struck me until I was in the sixth form that the activity pursued by scientists had any direct link with the everyday world . |
| 22 | Did I tell you that I was at Belsen just after it was liberated ? ’ |
| 23 | You did n't give your mum any money to get that C D did you that I was after ? |
| 24 | But I grant you that I 'm behind the times in some ways . |
| 25 | Now I would n't talk to you individually , I 'd overwhelm you if I was like this . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , it will be a bit difficult to court you if I 'm over here and you 're over there . ’ |
| 27 | You and I are under an enchantment , Joe . |
| 28 | ‘ And you and I are on it together , Lily . |
| 29 | If anyone in the club had been left with any doubt that you and I are in love , that touching little display on the dance floor must have convinced them otherwise . ’ |
| 30 | You and I are by nature , by our respective natures , males who are irresistibly attracted by a non-male principle . |