Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I realise that I come into the picture as a relative , and I do feel natural interest and concern for my great-uncle .
2 and I , I told him I was n't stupid enough to keep money in the house as an ex er as an ex lawyer and erm , where , er it so happened as I say that I talked to he , he did n't take any thing in fact at the end he apologise for having chosen the wrong house and he
3 cry if I want to .
4 So say if I said to you , well if and I said to you , Well what could I do ?
5 What where are you I 've missed that actually the the quite interesting just to briefly ask you about th erm When we s when I saw you last time , you were telling me something about actually erm a bit about yourself how what kind of person actually saying , you know , personality , what kind of things Wh how would you actually describe yourself ? say if I said to you , Erm what kind of person are you ?
6 but er , er as I say while I was round there the new town was , was all built and er I found , we found such a difference cos I used to have to go into Old Harlow shopping , I used to cycle before I was handicapped like this , I used to cycle everywhere , and er I went , you used to have to queue up in Old Harlow for the shops , we had n't got anything here at all , no Stow or anything when I first , I mean when I came here nothing , it was just terrible terrible lane up here it was and all these were all ploughed fields and it was really terrible and I had erm , I used to have to cycle into the doctors Old Harlow , queue up , queue up at the butchers , queue up everywhere you had to queue and er , till they built this er the new , The Stow then we used to go to The Stow shopping you know which made such a difference , but er , during my say during my lifetime I 've so , so pleased when the new town came because I wanted to move back to Nazeing where I came from when I first got here because it was such a terrible place there was nothing doing whatever , you know and then I moved erm , as I say after I got round the front there it was more , better really , you know , with all the er traffic and that you could see people going by and that as otherwise it , it was monotonous really in Common Fields , you did n't see much at all there , but you know it was , I quite enjoyed it really , now what else have I got to tell you ?
7 Yeah mm a bit like I say when I went to that dentist surgery at er Leicester
8 It sounds pathetic but I 'm also still quite awestruck when I talk to famous people . ’
9 It sounds pathetic but I 'm also still quite awestruck when I talk to famous people . ’
10 ‘ Listen , ’ I say as I creak to my feet , ‘ can I help with the washing up or something ? ’
11 These proposals and many more formed the basis of legislation following the 1987 general election — as too did the model report from Dame Mary Warnock that I commissioned into human fertilization and embryology .
12 He might also have said ‘ My hormones insist that I fall in love regularly .
13 I regret that I disagree with my hon. Friend , but I assure her that the levels have returned to those of 1987 .
14 So it was with some hope that I travelled to Scotland .
15 I hardly imagine that I look like an habitual criminal , anyway . ’
16 For instance , Skipper was not impressed with my suggesting that he should stand still while I got on and wait until I asked before moving off .
17 Wait till I get at thee !
18 ‘ Or wait till I get to Iquitos … ’
19 Oh wait till I get to him !
20 So just sit back and wait while I disappear into the studio .
21 The rest er er standard two to standard six , were all male , but lo and behold before I got to standard five , that had all become women and the men had all gone to the into the services .
22 I still chuckle when I think of that deadly , German secret weapon with its trunks , whiskers and puzzled expression and the panic it caused all those years ago .
23 I think that 's the trouble with Christmas , I said to Rob , in a way , I said I hope when I get to mum and dad 's age I wo n't expect my children to think oh god you got to go there for you know I said that I 'd love to just once take the kids away and go somewhere
24 Every time an angler casts and curses when he loses his line , I , too , now curse as I think of some wild creature getting enmeshed in the deadly snare he has inadvertently set .
25 Listen when I speak to you …
26 For once in my life there was no need to believe as I did or act as I chose for any reasons other than that I was personally convinced it was right .
27 Get , and I mean like I said to you today you 've still got your cough .
28 I mean like I said on a Friday we get thirteen seventy five till twelve o'clock .
29 Yes an I mean and I mean in winter time a wooden sole and a clog they wer they were nice and warm cos I mean you only used to polish 'em you used to put oil on them .
30 Well I mean the children , I mean if I go into the school and I , and say to them look there is a fire there but , you know , please will you not use it but it 's just a question of whether the children fiddle with it really , that 's
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