Example sentences of "i [verb] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man jumped in and shouted at me to drive but I refused . |
| 2 | ‘ You want me to confirm that something you feel is all right is truly all right , ’ said the counsellor . |
| 3 | She laughed and continued , ‘ Piers has been keeping me entertained while I waited for you . |
| 4 | Let me emphasize that there is nothing wrong in comparing local authority figures for numbers of children placed ‘ home on trial ’ . |
| 5 | The technique learned during those years did n't fail him on this occasion , for he stepped forward , swung the bitel in such a way that to my amazement and also that of the onlookers , the disc just sprang up the standard and hit the gong with a resounding clang , whereupon Dad modestly collected his prize of a coconut , handed it to me to carry and we went on our way . |
| 6 | ‘ I always said that I had to put my medical career before my rugby , but the new job will not force me to retire because my colleagues are so supportive and helpful . ’ |
| 7 | You walk in here with a bagful of goodies and that preposterously expensive bottle of wine , looking like shit would n't stick to your shoe , and want me to pretend that we 're married , we 're happy , and that it 's always happened like this . |
| 8 | How could you go on letting me think that they were true ? ’ |
| 9 | Like when someone says that the records you love are just plastic junk and they are the sort of people who read and rake in all that shit in the daily papers , then it makes me think that my daily intake of media is far superior to theirs . |
| 10 | And if that is so , then I revert to the considerations already stated which as a matter of construction make me think that it did so legislate . |
| 11 | It deliberately switched off its mind to me , to make me think that it had died . ’ |
| 12 | Letting me think that you slept with so many men you did n't have the first idea who the father was ! ’ |
| 13 | Running my eyes down the contents list of volume three , however , makes me think that I am about to encounter uncharted waters , featuring as it does sequencing , the MIDI studio and something called SMPTE … |
| 14 | Now let me think if I can think what it was . |
| 15 | It forced me to realize that I was normal and that I was human , and that was a big kind of realization for me . |
| 16 | Joe had written to me suggesting that there was a post for me in Japan ( available through the good offices of Stephen Spender , who had just returned from there with a commission from the Dean of the Faculty of Letters at Tohoku University ) to go and teach English , in the poet-teacher tradition for which it was famous . |
| 17 | Felipe did not want me to go but my father listened to no one . |
| 18 | I left home at 15 to become a footballer , she was really proud of me ; she encouraged me to go but I know she wanted me at home . |
| 19 | Devereux said : ‘ Widnes did n't really want me to go and there were problems with insurance guarantees . |
| 20 | Cis wants me to go if I want to . |
| 21 | It was Jo who first got me to see that I had done my best . |
| 22 | Somebody had been her , fetching me to see that I was playing truant , landed in school . |
| 23 | ‘ Actually she — she sent me to see that you are all right because — after all — you 're her late husband 's son and — and … ’ |
| 24 | Christian Aid has encouraged me to see whether it is feasible to work towards a nationally-recognized , cross-agency , accredited system of training in human resource development , concentrating on communication and campaigning skills , which would probably be organized in a modular/portfolio style . |
| 25 | Ian Mikardo approached me to see whether I would assist in raising funds to establish a scholarship at Haifa University in honour of the ( then ) late Dick Crossman , who had indeed been a man of the most friendly associations . |
| 26 | So they were there for me to see as they came in , etc . |
| 27 | He struggles to escape , alternating shouts of Stop ! at the dogs and shouts to me to see if I am still on board . |
| 28 | Shortly after volunteering my services contacted me to see if I would act as supporter for who had recently had a little girl called . |
| 29 | Late one evening in 1958 Alfred Cobban telephoned me to see if I would consider going to Cumberland Lodge , in Windsor Great Park , to work there for three years as Director of Studies . |
| 30 | A short while after the alert had been called off for the missing officer , a CID friend contacted me to see if I could help with their ‘ enquiries ’ . |