Example sentences of "[prep] i [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 On the other hand if I am in a drama experience my own actions and things about me may trap me into believing I am in an actual event .
2 There was a long silence before Ipuky continued , ‘ What is said about me should not concern you .
3 This does n't mean that the others had no ‘ powers ’ , that they seemed to do little for me may have been my own lack of receptivity .
4 Life for me would be empty and not life , a mere dragging on of weary time , perhaps not that .
5 ‘ But I ca n't imagine that your plan for me would enhance Bo-Bo 's pleasure . ’
6 The worst possible thing for me would have been to have gone through the half in 63 or 64 minutes , just being pulled along by a fast field , and then to have blown up over the second half . ’
7 Although I am not a Christian and certainly do not read the bible , God , for me would have been an excuse not to sort it out myself .
8 A good night out for me would be one where I got home and nobody had played any tricks on me .
9 if that had 've been Cath , that would have been a real turn up for me would n't it ?
10 " Ah , dear fellow , " she said to Andrew , " pick up my feathers for me would you — I think the room 's getting a bit chilly .
11 It 's just that I have arranged to meet him tonight sometime to sort out a few things for me would of made a lot more sense if he 'd been here !
12 We picked two poems on which it 's very easy for me to answer that kind of question because of course I did go back to the town where I was born , and erm wrote actually quite a lot of poems — well a lot , a lot for me would be four or five in that situation — of which this is probably the most successful and this one I 've put in a book .
13 Well , most obviously I have learnt that what is good for me can not necessarily be applied to everyone , although I still tend to dish out unsolicited advice .
14 ‘ O.K. Get her for me will you ? ’
15 Turn that on for me will you ?
16 and then he kept , he was on , will you come and work for me will you come , I was working for Holmes at the time
17 Stuart was very happy he 's gon na get a bottle of whisky it could n't of been a bottle of bacardi for me could it !
18 I send that to Ben , oh if I do it now you can post it for me could n't you ?
19 I 've got two boxes at home , but I I mean its not brilliant , but they do the job for me could be worth cos he driving out there as well , would n't mind start get the old ferry ticket 's tomorrow and piss off over there , straight through France ,
20 And that 's when , you see during I can just remember previous to the war them coming there and then of course during the war there was very very few of them on the road then and then after the war they started to come back and that 's when this Billy and Harry and that came up from the side .
21 A common example was an auxiliary verb sequence , such as I would n't have been able to go , which was heard as a single syllabic beat , approximately shown here as I wudnbinabluh go .
22 Similar impressions seem to arise from sentences such as I may leave tomorrow and I can finish it next week .
23 We have few secondary schools such as I used to teach in nowadays .
24 I just know that I will play the piano as best as I can . ’
25 And since I have that type of handicap , I try to interpret it as best as I can .
26 He produced a notebook and took down the address of the party in Fulham ( as best as I could remember it ) and the time , which I guessed at around 11.15 p.m .
27 Yeah , probably , me and this other mate he 'd a , did a , I can , I can remember him saying something about I 'll race yeah , it , like I remember just remember him , me and him run running down ramps and stuff trying to get back down to the ground floor , so .
28 Cos I , I mean I tend to change my mind about I 'll be listening half way through a song and then get pissed get pissed off with the album and go and
29 Sixty six she was , so in we go , and it 's got open to the general public , so this man said to her something about I ca n't serve you I 've had a robbery , she said I do n't know why they advertise it on the window if he 's , if he 's not prepared to serve me and when I looked round there was all the taken over , they had a burglary .
30 Then we had to then fiddle about and get the chain up with a big pole and heave that up and we always knew that if a dumb hopper come back and they 'd what we used to call they 'd lost a door , one of the doors used to break , used to be about I would say erm eight doors in the hold , separate doors and if one of them broke they 'd fiddle about with a big , what we would call a pole with a hook on trying to get hold of the chain and we 'd see that there pole sticking up out of the hold , we knew they lost a door so what they used to do they used to leave with the dredger and we 'd finish that off before we load it , had to .
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