Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.

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1 When it was rephrased , ‘ Do you ever find yourself saying , I wish 1 could do this better or I wish I knew more about that ? ’ it was more easily understood .
2 Everybody likes you better than they like me said Manyara , the elder sister .
3 I can remember him saying , as we walked down the second fairway , ‘ Willie , if I can win these people ( the gallery ? over from Jack [ Nicklaus ] so that they want me to win , I 'll win for them . ’
4 and he 'd been away for three months so that you know I mean
5 I 'll tell you this so that you know I 've problems too .
6 ‘ Only if you promise not to talk Man 's Talk when I 'm in the kitchen making gagging noises so that you think I 've got an Espresso machine , ’ said Sorrel , eyeing him suspiciously .
7 This semi-audible remark made me uneasy — that there had been debate at all on my utility — so much so that I wished I had never heard it .
8 ‘ Oh , it 's only that I feel I 've been wasting my life !
9 You let everything go for weeks and weeks and obviously find just getting a meal tiring enough and you know I do n't want you to do anything that 's too much for you .
10 I went out and saw it a minute ago and I thought I 'd bring it in and I thought I had n't seen you for a couple of days .
11 Got a bloody assignment to give in and I forgot I lost the bloody address !
12 But only if you let me pay , dear . ’
13 Only if you let me make it . ’
14 Er so if you let me know about Catherine .
15 So if you let me take a copy , I 'll give that lease you signed to my company solicitor and get him to go through it with a magnifying glass .
16 Okay , again , so if you see me doing a branch visit , and I see you 're , you shutting your diary , I 'll know .
17 So if you see me fall asleep — just before you go ,
18 this week , so if you want me to get some some squash or something .
19 I said you , she said yes , I 'm afraid so and I said I do sometimes begrudge it to those men in there .
20 Well you can start it at seven o'clock if you like I do n't mind .
21 And he would n't let me go at nine o'clock if he thought I had n't have been knackered and ready to fall down you know .
22 ‘ I was in Galway and Johnny was getting the band together and he asked me to join , ’ she says .
23 Caroline would give me hell for evermore if she thought I 'd ill-treated her best friend .
24 Besides , you want to put me ashore , so unless you expect me to swim — ’ She broke off , gasping as the boat , no longer held fast by its anchor , swung wildly .
25 So but he thinks I 've got away with it but the pus in my mouth right now
26 I have always enjoyed holidays alone because they allow me to do what I want to do and not what someone else wants to do .
27 I never thought to see the day , and all because I said I fiddled with wireless .
28 Mr wanted to come in before we agreed I think .
29 ‘ It was n't long before I wished I had never said that .
30 It was not long before I found I liked the Semmens family very much .
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