Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I asked why they chose me , George said , because you are the President of the Oxford Drama Club/my bank manager/my oldest friend/the boss/have known us for twenty-five years/you are the tallest/you have the loudest voice/ , and Martha said , because you have known Annabelle since she was fourteen/a baby/a child/all her life/at school/at college/you tell the best jokes . |
| 2 | ‘ I asked why you had to be going . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I asked why you want to know . ’ |
| 4 | I asked how it happened . |
| 5 | I asked how he thought I should do it and he said buy a tenoner . |
| 6 | I asked how he viewed the invasion by other southern factions . |
| 7 | When I asked how he communicated with Bengali patients who spoke no English he said ‘ I have no trouble in communicating with them because I learned pidgin English in the army . ’ |
| 8 | Much taken aback , not least because Amy and I had had a number of conversations about her low opinion of the Church and what it stood for , I asked how she knew it was Jesus . |
| 9 | As I tottered away I paused and addressed the big man 's back as he prepared for his next victim . |
| 10 | Yes , I could tell from Aunt Nessy 's breathing that she would not recover consciousness ; nevertheless , before I crept out I did kiss her , just in case some little part of her , still aware , should feel it . |
| 11 | When I straightened up I heard a slight sound behind me . |
| 12 | Erm you 've put me on the spot I do n't I do n't I 've really I 've really got no preference on them . |
| 13 | But if he 's wrong I mean you ca n't just come back and be contentious if you 're wrong cos I mean otherwise you know it 's , it 's of no pr of no work . |
| 14 | But I mean otherwise it 's got all the , all the good points in there , it 's a pity that councils do n't have these meaningful names |
| 15 | I mean either they opt for a family , or they opt for a job . |
| 16 | Well , I mean indirectly I suppose . |
| 17 | I mean increasingly we see that we 're , we get more constables here more constables there , but they do n't ever appear to be actually out on the streets , and until we can get more men on the streets with the deterrent effect that their appearance has , let alone anything else , we are not gon na get much further . |
| 18 | Yeah but I mean anyway I du n no I just get really pissed off with Catherine . |
| 19 | I mean just you know the the sort of , Well look er you know it does n't mean I wo n't respect you and I do n't love you and all that sort of thing . |
| 20 | But I mean I I expect , I mean even we had some left over e eventually you could sell them to our own members because they 'd all want to use it |
| 21 | well it 's like Elly , you know , I mean even she said she 's , I can really see , she said I even said it in an argument the other day , cos none of them could see at the time |
| 22 | I mean even I understand you were talking about the children sort of being out in the dark on their own erm even just something as simple as that . |
| 23 | Not really , I mean well I know , German I mean I 'm gon na be worried about it when I get there but at the moment German and French are just gon na be translating something , there 'll be , give me an extract and a translation and I 'll have to do them , you know |
| 24 | I mean well I thought to myself , God what a life ! |
| 25 | So I mean well I suppose it 's , times flitting away cos I do n't suppose her solicitor will let it go on forever ! |
| 26 | Well I mean well I do n't mean you 'll sort it out yourself . |
| 27 | I mean well I do n't know but there you are . |
| 28 | I mean well you 've , you 've looked at what you think acce what the , the velocity is , which is the gradient on the distance time graph . |
| 29 | I mean whenever you see old films |
| 30 | I mean presumably he 's got a lot of money I mean |