Example sentences of "i [vb base] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I regret that I had been out of the office on the 15 July and did not receive your FAX until first thing on the 16 July . |
| 2 | but , I 've , until that happens I regret that I canot support Chris 's resolution . |
| 3 | I regret that I do not know at what level the exemption was first introduced . |
| 4 | I regret that I disagree with my hon. Friend , but I assure her that the levels have returned to those of 1987 . |
| 5 | But bitterly I regret that I needed another man 's hands to help me , and he in ignorance . ’ |
| 6 | I regret that I have to conclude that the omens for retaining national control of vital areas do not look good . |
| 7 | I repeat that I do not believe that the principal cause of last week 's riots was the conduct of the police . |
| 8 | However , I and others find it difficult to accept that , but I repeat that I have no hard evidence to substantiate my claim . |
| 9 | I repeat that I have sympathy with the staff of the Housing Executive and the Department of Health 's occupational therapy department , but there are great problems that we must face . |
| 10 | I REPEAT WHen i likE . |
| 11 | i REpeat when i liKe . |
| 12 | I even know , thanks to Montesquieu , that one may be a Persian , but as for Man , I declare that I have never met him in my life ; if he exists it is without my knowledge.1 |
| 13 | I mean once I know what a thing is |
| 14 | I mean once I 've cleared up , you know , when she 's gone and and do n't mind seeing |
| 15 | Er you know I I I af I mean after I did n't think anything of it , and in those days I was too young of course to think of th things like that . |
| 16 | Yeah well my husband 's talking about getting one of those because I mean after I did n't tell him all the details |
| 17 | Oh yeah , but then you 've also got to watch I mean that I 'd , sometimes I 'd muck things up when I 've given too much choice I think |
| 18 | exactly , it 's the only way you can do it and I would n't do it any other way , because I do n't bel I do n't , I do n't think it 's fair , if I was using the phone continually I 'd get rather annoyed , I mean that I 'd , they 'd have a right to be annoyed , but as I do n't I think it 's ridiculous so I 'm not hardly surprised at all , so I think it 's stupid as you say , but there you go . |
| 19 | I mean that I attended the lectures given at Cambridge by Dirac . |
| 20 | Underneath the screen up in the pie in the sky I mean that I mean I 've known that when you 've only got about that much where you should have that . |
| 21 | I got back to work , by which I mean that I got my papers and notes out , and then sat looking at them for what seemed like a dreary lifetime , and was really probably only twenty minutes . |
| 22 | The people who were lived behind Ann there 's a yo young couple in there I think he beat her up , I mean that I wanted to go round me , because I know what it felt like and I wished somebody had come and help me . |
| 23 | By that I mean that I see the New English Art Club as standing for a cultured , civilised , very English approach to art — a kind of visual stability . |
| 24 | Now do n't take that too literally , certainly in sub zero temperatures and I think the first of December and to do so would I think er have er maybe with some risk of being in 's phrase stark raving bonkers but by that you may think I mean that I think we made a fair attempt to deal with the three principle issues which have caused so much annoyance to user groups , there 's a backlog in modification orders . |
| 25 | ‘ I suppose I mean that I do n't think I ought to have them . ’ |
| 26 | I suppose I mean that I do n't think my husband would be a nature poet if he did n't live now , here , in England . |
| 27 | " I mean that I do n't hate him any more . |
| 28 | I 've never been at it myself , like , but I mean but I mean the and all is , well there 's all the stuff on it anyway . |
| 29 | I mean but I mean people are still flooding into this country today . |
| 30 | I mean but I mean I suppose it 's true with with Sonia and with Honey cos I mean like Honey 's a nice person , but there 's three things about her which are very bad , and that is like she takes the piss erm she 's lazy . |