Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] [subord] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Miss Cardings next door , they would have let me stay there until I got myself sorted out . |
| 2 | I 'm just you 're just making me think actually because I saw in one of the papers this morning erm a headline , if I can find it , it said something to the effect that — yes here it is , in the Independent , it says ‘ TV soaps are first to survive rescheduling ’ and it goes on to tell us that the British television schedules as we all know were the first casualties of war in the Gulf except for the nation 's daily diet of Australian soap . |
| 3 | It 's good for me to come away because I smoke fewer . |
| 4 | I mean just cos I want I , just , just cos you want out of here , I 'm not gon na accept any old place |
| 5 | I mean even when I smoked I did . |
| 6 | I mean well if I remember in Harlow er , we we i i in in nineteen seventy eight we had twenty thousand er , social er , council housing and about nine thousand owner occupiers the situation , that ratio 's been reversed where we , where i by the end of the century we practically have about three thousand social social housing and about twenty two thousand er er , owner occupiers ! |
| 7 | As I say I mean well because I do feel the cold I suppose I have to have more heat than |
| 8 | I mean yesterday after I had me dinner I dropped off to sleep for a couple of hours cos |
| 9 | I mean I , I , I do n't drink a lot , I mean maybe after I 've been out in the hills you have got to drink something to replace the sweat , but I 'm not a great drinker and I do n't , I do n't smoke and I , I do n't like discos or anything like that |
| 10 | I 'd have to , I 'd have to erm I 'd have to raise it er and I think to be quite honest the er I mean fortunately as I said earlier on Mr chairman there is a Regional Liaison Group meeting on , on Monday er and I have a captive audience of three budget holders , Doug Gill and Phil , erm and raise this with them . |
| 11 | I mean ever since I 've |
| 12 | I mean now if i said , Make me a a figure that 's got ten equal sides , you could do it could n't you ? |
| 13 | ‘ Have been reading ’ , I realized even as I struggled to find somewhere to stand the strawboard in the darkness , makes a somewhat smaller claim than ‘ have read ’ , and I scarcely expect that my ‘ books ’ , to anyone outside the very restricted world of philosophical studies , are going to include the two on Spinoza ; all of which suggests a second-hand and partial acquaintance with my only other work , Natural Man . |
| 14 | ‘ Always I eat here when I have business in town , ’ Madame Gebrec explained . |
| 15 | Nor shall I stay longer than I need . ’ |
| 16 | I definitely , I do n't really think I got more than I did in the end of year , last year one , I think I got forty percent in that |
| 17 | I cry quietly because I do n't want to wake my mum . |
| 18 | On the day of the Station sports I tried harder than I had ever tried in any of my events , and the results were exactly as predicted by old Doc Whittingham " not in the first three , could make fourth if he really tries hard enough " ( which could be the story of my life ) . |
| 19 | I moved there because I had to find a way to support myself . ’ |
| 20 | I say surprisingly because I happen to know Tod is n't squeamish . |
| 21 | It rarely took less than seven minutes to organize the few things I needed , so that day I rehearsed mentally as I went along : ‘ Choose the best place to stop . |
| 22 | During the lead-up to my emergence as a fully-fledged lesbian , I suffered unspeakably as I steered myself through a minefield of heavily internalized Catholic dogma . |
| 23 | I do n't see how she can do the hours , with the hours that she 's doing , I mean she 's still in the Penny Farthing when I came here cos I went to pay her the money . |
| 24 | ‘ I came here because I married a Cornishman . |
| 25 | ‘ I came here because I took a liking to the place and the people . |
| 26 | I came here because I wanted to get away , only … ’ |
| 27 | I speak personally when I say that for me the Eucharist represents God 's powerful declaration that I am ‘ ransomed , healed , restored and forgiven ’ . |
| 28 | This is what I was thinking , what would I have , how would I feel now if I did n't have the truth |
| 29 | I complain now cos I 've got to walk from there , there to Currys |
| 30 | I run now when I see him coming . |