Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] [verb] i [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm shit that reminds me I 've got to write a letter . |
| 2 | I says no I ca n't , he says it 's not very far , I said it 's not the distance that bothers me it 's the fact that you want us to sit there till eleven o'clock at night and not get paid for it , he says yeah but if you want to say something , I says I 'd say something if I thought we 'd be backed on it , but we 're not , oh I 'm not going anywhere to be if I 'm not being paid |
| 3 | ‘ It was their manner that told me they had to be taken seriously . |
| 4 | " I sorry , " he said once again , in a hopeless voice that told me I had n't convinced him . |
| 5 | Cos I remember once when they asked me at work to deliver the annual speech you know the man that asked me he says er , you know , they 've gone round everybody else and nobody else would do it and would I do it , and I said good lord , that were my first reaction , and I realized like all the company secretaries lo lord , so I did very well there |
| 6 | If there 's one thing that disgusts me it 's cold porridge . |
| 7 | No the only thing that consumed me I was looking to see if there was anyway that material from the seat could be used to sort of target us for a mailing system or something like that |