Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [subord] i [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked as I stirred up the tea-bags . |
| 2 | I asked as I stood up to go to the bar . |
| 3 | If I make money I I 'll make you I can pay you as well , if I go up I mean if I go down , he said , I can go up or down as well , he said . |
| 4 | I mean if I look back over my career with American corporates where I 've bought advertising it actually runs into millions of pounds . |
| 5 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |
| 6 | I says I 'm gon na stop with me father and they said well , we 're sorry to lose you but we know this trade 's know good to you and we hope that you 'll stay with your dad and , well I did , I stayed with me dad until , as I say after I come out of the army and they would n't let me increase me coal trade . |
| 7 | Oh , I , I want if I go out tonight . |
| 8 | Sometimes I shake until I fall down . |
| 9 | ‘ So I noticed as I came through . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ What 'll I do , Mother , what on earth will I do when I get out of here ? ’ |
| 11 | What will I do when I get out of here ? |
| 12 | What should I do if I fall down and cut myself during break ? |
| 13 | If he was claiming a grant in yours , I did I claimed when I went back to college , my twenties I actually claimed a grant but my father claimed income tax relief claimed under him . |
| 14 | ‘ Pounds , ’ I replied as I wrote out my name and address on the back of the particulars and left it on the counter . |
| 15 | ‘ Nothing , ’ I replied as I scrambled out of the trench , replacing the diary quickly in my hip pocket . |
| 16 | What shall I see if I climb round here ? |
| 17 | ‘ Only a rose — ’ I began as I held out my offering to my husband and I was just about to start on the second line when a Yorkshire pudding with onion gravy flew past my head and stuck with a plop on the ceiling . |
| 18 | I know because I grew up there . |
| 19 | I know because I called around early and took my sister out for tea . |
| 20 | I have has to pick up what mathematics I know as I went along . |
| 21 | ‘ Must be getting back to Brigade H.Q , Sarge , ’ I remarked as I picked up my rifle and prepared to leave . |
| 22 | I remember once I got on to Norton because there was this I wanted to get to but I did do some shepherding there , and that was another fun , carrying , and that 's a winter job , carrying the sheep hurdling , hurdles and stakes , I worked with a gypsy , a Romany gypsy , and he could n't speak very much , and tended to sing , as if something not quite right about him . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'll never moan about hard work again , Jacko , ’ I lied as I set off to make a packed audience laugh like drains , with a face the colour of one and stomach that sounded like one . |
| 24 | More than that , I persisted until I got through ! |
| 25 | There Art Garfunkel that is and I Believe When I Fall in Love it 'll be Forever . |
| 26 | I suppose if I come around and ask each one of us this morning , can you give a definition ? |
| 27 | All this before I decide whether I smile back . |
| 28 | I feel like I got back my reputation by fighting to prove my innocence . |
| 29 | I knew before I started out that , weatherwise , the end of March is not the time to plan a journey to the Islands and my misgiving proved to be well founded as on Tuesday 23 March I found myself in the lounge at Dalcross Airport , Inverness watching gale force winds sweep snow across the runways . |
| 30 | As I held it , I knew if I looked over to the bed he 'd be there , hands behind his head , stealing , this time , an image of his widow . |