Example sentences of "i [verb] [to-vb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I regret to say I have , Mr Stevens . |
| 2 | ‘ I regret to say I think you are . |
| 3 | I mean to pick I mean who , who who could replace ? |
| 4 | ‘ Apologies , my dear fellow , ’ said Mr Singleton , ‘ momentarily I failed to appreciate I was talking to an artist . ’ |
| 5 | yeah I 've got a lot of relations , I 've got twenty , twenty seven er grandchildren , that includes the great grandchildren , twenty seven which I have er to get something for all at Christmas it 's a pantomime I 've got stuff here and everywhere sorting out for them , cos my little grandson tonight is coming round to wrap them up for me so I got to mind I have n't , leave his present in the way otherwise he 'll know what he 's got yeah he 's got , I got a tape for him , he wanted a tape called Madness so I 've got him a tape for it so I 've had to put that out the way so he does n't wrap that up , no he comes and does them up for me tonight , and a friend Ian will help him as well , so you know it 's , it 's great really |
| 6 | I got to admit I did n't pop over just to offer yer some neighbourly 'elp , it was on me mind while I was there to touch you for the loan of a bob . |
| 7 | Now I tend to find I need something else to put me to sleep . |
| 8 | Er , I sorry , , just clearing my throat , er , I did , I did delegate if somebody put it on the end of somebody 's assignment , then I to it , but I tend to find I underestimate what people can do for me all the time , and do n't identify just how much those people can give me back , and I did , or I do have a tendency at times to give people like before , to hold on too much , try and do too much myself , and er , you ca n't do it that way in case . |
| 9 | Do I need to do I , they do n't do anything |
| 10 | I 'd be a liar if I tried to pretend I knew the answer to that one . |
| 11 | ‘ I tried to pretend I was thoroughly involved with my career — as I am , of course , but you know what I mean . |
| 12 | If I want to relax I go out in the garden , anywhere to get away from the kids ' bawling . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I want to stress I 'm happy with the award but this is not a one-man team , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Now listen I want to see I want to s Have you got buttons today ? |
| 15 | So I says , I I do n't like there I want to go I want to come back . |
| 16 | Do n't have to talk about an just a good chat you know just I do n't want to I do n't want to talk about good people or all about that I do n't want to talk about that I want to talk I want to talk to that person out there who will feel now that it is them that I am I am appealing to I am appealing I now . |
| 17 | I want , I 'm just saying to you what I want to do I actually want to consolidate my own qualifications |
| 18 | What I wa , what I want to get I 've saved up an , an an an an earned it and |
| 19 | I want to walk I want to walk |
| 20 | I want to show I can succeed at a bigger club in the future and fulfil my footballing ambitions . |
| 21 | If I want to switch I tip from one bucket to the other , we 'll charge him eighteen pounds , and we 're absolutely right , as Gerald says , we do it on a bid to bid basis . |
| 22 | And what we used to do to begin with the canal used to dip in the middle , you know there was bike wheels and dead cats and everything in it , and it used to dip and , and there was a sludge and , and the barges used to go up and down with a horse pulling them , and in the middle there was a , so you could n't bottom it in the middle , so when I learnt to swim I used to dive off this ledge and go under the water so far and I , I could reach the bottom when I got to the other side . |
| 23 | I came to say I was sorry . |
| 24 | Have I phoned to say I 'm coming ? |
| 25 | Before I begin to read I push some boxes across to the place where Summerchild sat facing me and dust them to make him a desk and chair . |
| 26 | ‘ I forgot to say I shall be in New York , ’ he said . |
| 27 | WHAT OUR READERS SAY : ‘ I do enjoy reading PFK — I have learned a lot from it , and I hasten to add I 'm still learning . ’ |
| 28 | ’ I nodded to show I understood . |
| 29 | I seem to recall I said that . |
| 30 | I seem to recall I did once look in a dictionary to try and find out the definition of settlement , all it said was something like a place where people settle . |