Example sentences of "[pron] i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've had a stormy relationship with everyone I 've ever worked with , ’ says Nicky , ‘ because I care about what I do ! |
| 2 | Everyone I 've ever been serious about has wanted marriage and children , ultimately . |
| 3 | This was a foreign land , peopled not only by my superiors , for that applied to everyone I 'd ever known , from the hole in Mother woman through which I was expelled to the hole in the Mother earth by which I 'd be swallowed ; but by those who were superior to my early superiors ; probably the most superior peoples in the entire world . |
| 4 | I had lost faith , not in God but in the carnal love which so preoccupied almost everyone I had ever known . |
| 5 | If I go on denying it they 'll all wag their fingers and say ‘ Aha ’ and tell me I protest too much . |
| 6 | Even as he spoke to me I felt very uneasy . |
| 7 | As they swung past me I looked again at the SPs and my hear gave a thud . |
| 8 | Karen came and asked me I says alright . |
| 9 | ‘ But Mrs Aitken told me I 'd just missed him , so I got her to make me a cup of coffee . ’ |
| 10 | Fey was something they would tell me I had just invented , but it is something that never left me during the entire period I was an Instructor and sadly I was to learn very shortly after he left Kinloss that he did not survive very long on the squadron that he joined . |
| 11 | Arrayed against me I had both the TUC-affiliated unions and the Royal College of Nursing , the professional organization representing the nurses . |
| 12 | ‘ You once said if there was anything you could do to help me I had only to come to you and ask . |
| 13 | There was a printed card fixed above the doorbell which told me I had about ten minutes before visiting times were up . |
| 14 | After the receptionist picked herself off the floor she told me I had better call in the fire brigade . ’ |
| 15 | She was not at all beautiful , but even with her likeness before me I had always assumed that she must be , since she carried such conviction in her forgotten words and her enduring appearance . |
| 16 | Cos it really has been extremely well managed , extremely well run , er not by me I 've just received the ballot papers . |
| 17 | Marriage will often be discussed with a kind of tolerant resignation as one of those burdens which have to be carried in life , the stuff of music-hall jokes : ‘ Since I 've had my wife behind me I 've never looked back ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ But despite all the mishaps that have happened to me I 've never lost faith in the inner man and that 's why I 'm still where I am . |
| 19 | If he 's trusted me I 've never asked him to , and I 've never promised him fealty . |
| 20 | The youngest , the youngest below me I 've ever gone for is three years younger . |
| 21 | Oh they , they say it 's all controllable so that I 've , I 've answered , I have n't just let the Environmental Health wash over me I 've actually written back to them again , er I 'll be interested to see whether I get a letter back from them , but I phoned up the Council this morning and they 're rejecting on two grounds , one is to do with the highway and the sort of the traffic situation coming in there , although the , the authority , the Highway Department are n't objecting to it and the other one is erm , on local environmental issues I think you know that is , is unsuitably , unsuitable environmentally to the area well I can only say that I 'm grateful to the planning , to the planning offices for they 're going out on a limb if you like because I think they 're on thin ice erm and so long as the committee will , will back them up I mean I do n't know of what else I could of done as a person |
| 22 | Well do n't to me I 've only just you |
| 23 | I nodded to them , but when they looked at me I turned away quickly , for fear I should see them exchange puzzled glances . |
| 24 | But what he has told me I found rather interesting — in the circumstances , ’ he added pointedly , confirming her suspicions . |
| 25 | ‘ Reason tells me I do right to let you go , yet my heart urges me to hold on to you … ’ |
| 26 | Do n't tell me I did wrong ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Hey , there 's nothing I like better than a slow cruise off the Spanish Main , a cool drink , and a little hot music . |
| 28 | ‘ Duw , there 's nothing I like better than to work on my own ideas . ’ |
| 29 | Even today there 's nothing I like better than to sit in church on Sunday morning and lustily bawl out the hymns . ) |
| 30 | Well when it went three nothing I thought here we go , I 've got all my friends and family , you know , come and watch , you tell them what a good side they are , and last few games they looked a good side — three nothing down in fifteen minutes . |