Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [pron] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | True faith in God means that I distrust myself in order to trust in God . |
| 2 | It was just lucky that I spotted it in time and did something about it at such an early age , or God knows what the child might have turned into , with Saul 's soul possessing him . |
| 3 | It had been running through my thoughts so often that I knew it by heart , yet now I was suddenly afraid that I might do the wrong thing ! |
| 4 | You must take my word for it that I saw it by accident . |
| 5 | You were standing by the boat , demanding that I let you on board , and I felt such a raw , aching need lance through me that it shocked me . |
| 6 | I was so frightened by the blind man 's violence that I obeyed him without question , and took him into the room where the sick captain was sitting . |
| 7 | Automatically I checked that I had plenty of fuel myself . |
| 8 | Assuming now that I was aware of one or two facts of which you , my dear , could not be , assuming that I had something of importance to communicate to Michel , would you still stick to your stubborn refusal ? ’ |
| 9 | I told her that I had you at work then yesterday , right , she says oh no another one , right , and ended up |
| 10 | They know that I killed him on purpose because he took my best animal . ’ |
| 11 | There are things around this , that I wonder what on earth we 're doing and what is the best way forward and I would like to see that kind of report come back to us . |
| 12 | Also that I described them in car on way home as five most grotesque examples of humanity this side of the swamps of Lousiana . |
| 13 | My girlfriend , after my eleven-month absence , had understandably left me , and it was in the company of my two still-faithful black cats that I threw myself into writing . |
| 14 | There seems no point in saying that I love you in spite of everything because that only seems to irritate you for reasons best known to yourself and which you choose neither to explain nor comment on . |
| 15 | It is because I feel that the impulse that is behind the work of the Labour Party is mainly the same longing for the time when man [ sic ] will be able to live in free and equal comradeship that I find myself in line with that party . |
| 16 | Well as I 've taped that I taped it at home |
| 17 | ‘ I was so wrapped up in my own performances that I needed someone with experience to help . |
| 18 | Not that I have anything against gas fitters but I do think that to do what I did at 15 takes a bit more courage . |
| 19 | Not that I have anything against ugliness . |
| 20 | I can give the hon. Gentleman the undertaking — it is of the sort that I gave him in Committee — that I believe that many things should be done with the extra resources that we shall have , and in the context of administrative matters the care of records is relevant . |
| 21 | Erm , I I really do n't want to add anything else , other than the summary , erm , that I gave you on Appendix One , Chairman , but if you move over to Appendix Two for a start , erm , this first of all , relates only to our A T T in and we hope in future to improve this sort of information in the other employee groups . |
| 22 | My disability makes this rather a slow process , so I had plenty of time . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd spent two years at Stanford University Press , so I knew something about price ceilings . ’ |
| 24 | Two had left so I visited them at home . |
| 25 | I could not find a reason for leaving him , so I accompanied him in silence . |
| 26 | She tells them what she wants , she said er one , Fred said something to her one week and she said , well you know , you can get some sirloin , she says I like sirloin and I like it with fat . |
| 27 | ‘ You 'll find an oilskin jacket in the locker at the foot of the stairs , ’ I said , ‘ and you 'll also discover that Ellen has left a Thermos of coffee on the stove , and I like mine without sugar but with milk . |
| 28 | ‘ Matthews and I got them in town , Dr Streeter . |
| 29 | I save the tins , wash them and paint the outsides and I use them as cache pots for all my plants , which neatly disguises the yoghurt pots in which I have planted them ! |
| 30 | It was early evening when I got into London 's vehicular scrummage and I had plenty of time to see Toby in hospital . |