Example sentences of "[pers pn] [subord] i [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | Er I mean if I if I try and cover it with one of our professional salesmen , |
2 | At one point I almost lost them until I realized that the Sierra had pulled into a garage for gas . |
3 | You know , when I used to take my parcels , well I used to say to him , How much would you give me if I come and work for you ? |
4 | ‘ You will forgive me if I insist that I understand Mrs Frere better than you do yourself . |
5 | Many systems and many faces may have changed over the last year or two and I do n't imagine you would believe me if I said that none of these changes had saddened me but , in a changing market-place , the basics have n't changed and the most basic precept of all is that there are no healthy banks where there are no health customers to sustain them . |
6 | ‘ And forgive me if I ask that we do not sleep together tonight — and maybe for a while — until Philippe is home … |
7 | And will you excuse me if I run and jump and do handsprings ? |
8 | I know Shanti 's first mother will forgive me if I say that when our little girl first came , she was in a very disturbed state . |
9 | Nobody will blame me if I say that in the circumstances I became very uneasy . |
10 | The hon. Gentleman will forgive me if I say that he has the same problem with me that I have with the Whips Office . |
11 | I hope that my hon. Friend the Minister will forgive me if I say that the Treasury , as always , seems to have made rather heavy weather of this matter . |
12 | This confused me until I realised that the more shadowy the figure of the ex then the greater her power , because no-one can compete with a phantom . |
13 | But I said , I will take all this from you if I hear that you are playing at being the important person . |
14 | I told you when I rote that it was impossible for me to pay anything , as he was allowed by the parish when he was at Muggerhanger , and I told you I had my daughter on my hands for over seven years , and I have been doctering her all the time so I think you will consider the matter over and no that I can not help in any way , and in any case 4s. is a lot of money to pay a week . |
15 | Lastly , I fear I may have to disappoint you when I say that the coin is more interesting than valuable . |
16 | One of the things that does , I 'm not being Chairman , just asking questions , but one of the things that slightly concerns me because I know that in his document the director has put about providing day care type facilities in rural areas and I remember at our last meeting , the last meeting at one , we discussed specifically and area , erm it does , does worry me a little whether the absence of any capital expenditure on our part means that we may be providing day care facilities in some areas but it 'll be of a very much lower quality or a lesser quality than we may be providing anywhere else in the areas like and and . |
17 | in fact the girl who did the mailing for them did n't do it properly so in fact it 's unlikely to happen erm they asked me because I know that since she 's now leaving the Vice-Principal through network erm and and they were thinking of getting something together like that , I did n't write this that 's not my writing but just let me tell you I do n't write a twenty- four clock , twenty-four hour clock with full stops in it |
18 | The Aldershot method was particularly important for me because I realised that it 's something we use every day or we see every day er and it emotionally prepares the audience the listener for what I 'm going to say . |
19 | ‘ I was shocked when Bristol City released me because I thought that I was doing well , ’ said Vernon , who has now scored four times in three games for Bath but has not yet started a game . |
20 | ‘ You 'll do him for me because I ask and because he 's a lousy , rotten drug-pusher . |
21 | The sailors all laughed at me because I walked and neighed like a horse . |
22 | This does n't cut any ice with me because I believe that none of these directors would be in on the board if they were n't invited there by yourself . |
23 | My gun jammed and William recognised me and came forward laughing and firing shot after shot at me while I waved and tried to duck and these yellow paint balls went splat , splat , thunking into my hired camouflage trousers and combat jacket and smacking into my visored helmet while I waved at him and tried to get the damn gun to work and he just walked forward slowly shooting me ; bastard had his own paint gun and he 'd probably had it souped up ; knowing William , that was almost inevitable . |
24 | Dad and Mum were out , and I let him come up with me while I changed and then , well , there I was in my bra , and we kissed . |
25 | ‘ Because I was working , he saw more of her than I did when she was a baby , ’ Yasmin says . |
26 | Margaret , can you give me a phone number for her because I thought if they do that they must put her on plays with us students |
27 | To tell you the truth Brenda , I 'm very sorry for her because I think that she and Ned have made a really a quite ferocious mess of their life , they 've never intended to be slaving away to be doing kitchen fitting , he wanted to do wood sculpture that was he 's idea in |
28 | My heart ached for her as I realised that she had joined the ranks of so many others I had known , who had watched their men fly off into the dusk , never to be heard of again . |
29 | The Fernies got rid of her when I left and she walked me to the front gate . |
30 | I knew that she did n't believe in him as I did because in that case I would have recognised her as I had recognised Mother Joseph , who inhabited a territory which I had visited . |