Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [verb] [pron] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Mummy me want to eat them in that high chair , you staying out here ?
2 Erm I mean tell me in more depth how it works
3 I mean to arm myself from this day on — be warned , lest you are tempted to trespass on my confidence .
4 I hate to see it like that . ’
5 I hate to burden you with this .
6 I want to thank you for all you did for Mam .
7 You do n't yet give us money , although I hope may , one day you will be persuaded to do so , but you have given us time , and particularly in the person of your colleague Sandra who is here , and her time to us has been enormously valuable and I want to thank you for that .
8 I want to thank you for this opportunity and tell you I will do my very best for you . ’
9 I want to ask her about this issue .
10 Now I wan I want to ask you about that .
11 On the last point that Les makes , I want to ensure him about this ; that when Horton run that boat business , that was a water-based business , it ran on the basis there were floats in the river and you stepped on to the float and you got onto a boat .
12 I 'm glad you called , " Lorne went on weirdly , " because I want to tell you about another new idea I 've gotten .
13 I hope to initiate you into this important part of life … to teach you about such things . ’
14 You know you wrote that letter and it said oh , I hope to see you in half term and then , then said I hope not
15 And about this too I hope to help you during this course .
16 Perceiving on a re-perusal of one of Mr Prince 's letters that you are all feeling apprehensions of our being in danger from the natives , I hasten to relieve you from that alarm .
17 Oh I seem to remember something like that .
18 Erm , I seem to find myself in this committee in a minority of one .
19 I suppose finding her like that could have been disturbing , but then again Stella is n't easily disturbed , is she ? ’
20 ‘ And , being the modern-day equivalent of Casanova , I decide to add you to this impressive circle of conquests ? ’
21 Would you excuse me , Mr. Preston , while I try to do something about this ? ’
22 Rachel has started packing up to leave , and I try to divert her with more coffee .
23 I do admire her for that .
24 I do know something of this city . ’
25 In relation to your second question about criteria , er , I do say something about that , I do try to erm , tease that out to some extent , but it is of course , a difficult one .
26 And I think sent me on that course you know .
27 I think I prefer to get it like that and , instead of having a whole onion it 's better when , they 're , the big ones like they are bit too big are n't they ?
28 ‘ Oh , yes , I 've wanted you from that first meeting in France . ’
29 But I 've written it in such an open-ended way
30 You 've lost , I 've lost you on this last one , Kim have I ?
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