Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] i [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jim was elected to Portsmouth city council in nineteen seventy six as a member for where I understand he tried to play football occasionally until nineteen eighty six . |
| 2 | ‘ It was at that place I told you about that I knew him , ’ he said to Lili . |
| 3 | You know when I when I first thought of that I thought you know I 'd let us keep it . |
| 4 | And she had one or two hires including higher art and then somebody said oh that would be good for the P R department is looking for staff so she now is doing a superb job running a marketing operation , editing an internal newspaper it all herself and erm all of that I taught her , now I want to move her on to the stage where she can get professional recognition for this , now that is what I call an absolute beginner |
| 5 | I felt he maintained a distance and because of that I found him more difficult to approach than Dalglish if there was anything I needed to discuss . |
| 6 | This is one of my film articles which I mean it 's of the things that I 've sent of and I know it will be published because I belong to the Cinema Veterans cinema and television veterans and they have this quarterly magazine and almost certainly you know it will be published in there , there 's no |
| 7 | Well he just totally sort of because I think he knows |
| 8 | ‘ It 's not a case of whether I like it or not , more a case of whether you can find him or not . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It 's not a question of whether I feel I 'm the best man for the job . |
| 10 | See which one you like the smell of as I pass them round . |
| 11 | Well I says Andy cut it down a bit like , even if you could cut , cut it down a bit for and I says he ca n't afford to give big housekeeping money and plus try and get a bus away to Kilkeel and take out , or take the wee girl out , what do you call her , Sonia . |
| 12 | Like this , you see looking for and I said she 's gone on a bike ride ! |
| 13 | My mum come up to see me and asked me what the bandage was for and I told her I 'd burnt myself . |
| 14 | I knew roughly what I was looking for and I found it on the floor under a seat frame from which the seat had been removed . |
| 15 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
| 16 | And we might like to give credit for And I think it 's really hard to learn to read the signs . |
| 17 | Erm how about if I leave you to do that one ? |
| 18 | If I meet my young son from school , laughing with his friends and waving to me and the dog , who wags its tail and barks in return , should I be supposed not to know what I am talking about if I pronounce them both to be conscious ? |
| 19 | The realist strategy involved comparing the description of the person with the subject him/herself or someone the subject was familiar with ; ‘ I also related a lot of the adjectives to whether they were like me ’ , ‘ … and rated the person as if I knew them personally . |
| 20 | ‘ I felt as if I knew you , and you knew me — almost from the beginning of time . |
| 21 | Unable to say , Because I felt as if I knew you , as if I 'd always known you ; because your face was as familiar to me as my own , she replied weakly , ‘ Sometimes a particular face stands out . |
| 22 | ‘ Go on , ’ I said as if I meant it . |
| 23 | as if I had them every day — I 'd had one ! |
| 24 | It was as if I owed him financially for everything he 'd given me , he 'd drawn up a sort of balance sheet , setting adoption against the chances he 'd given me ; because he 'd taken me on I owed him . |
| 25 | In newspapers I 've been called bland and ‘ smoothy-chops ’ so often that it almost goes over my head now , and people go on about my baggy eyes as if I made them that way myself — which I suppose I did , in a way . |
| 26 | I shrugged , as if I thought them honourable scars to be gained in my lady 's service . |
| 27 | I was in no mood to stop , and continued past as if I thought they wanted to film me from behind . |
| 28 | ‘ You 're talking as if I asked you to telephone , ’ she said . |
| 29 | I told him about taking six months off and doing rep in the provinces just to get back in touch with live acting and live audiences and he reacted as if I told him I 'd had a mental breakdown . |
| 30 | You know really do you know , as if I think I blanked out . |