Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they grew up and went off into the wild I suffered dreadful pangs . |
| 2 | In my days as a Justice 's Clerk I saw enough corpses to know that death can grossly disfigure even the comeliest of faces . ’ |
| 3 | Of course — he pulled himself together a bit — as a scientist I find all these phenomena extremely interesting . |
| 4 | Well there are ways are n't there I mean even in traditionally , I mean what of wet-nursing I mean that 's an example is n't it where a woman gets another woman to do the job for her . |
| 5 | All I can say is that I failed , and in this particular case I regret that failure . ’ |
| 6 | I begin to really hate men and do n't want to get close to them in case I get hurt again . |
| 7 | Right then you know where you are I always I always have a pie with me just in case I get hungry . |
| 8 | I had nightmares about scrums and tackles from a very early age and refused to play as a linesman , in case I got involved in violence . |
| 9 | I had n't even looked at the floor in case I got nostalgic for my own personal locks now lost to me for ever . |
| 10 | My erm , when I was little , I used to have this reoccuring dream , and it was really , really scary , and I just , I used to get really scared , I did n't want to go to sleep , in case I had this reoccuring dream , and what it was , was erm , I do n't know , I , I think I did n't like swimming when I was little , so that might , what sparked it off , and I could n't swim for ages |
| 11 | This is really this is really just in case I fall asleep . |
| 12 | And I think I 'll stop right there with even more comments , erm , in case I lose that contract too . |
| 13 | ‘ If that was the case I found great difficulty in seeing how he could get permission from my local authority to license me , ’ he said . |
| 14 | In this particular case I used wild roses , plus their buds and leaves . |
| 15 | But I think a lot of them were genuinely concerned , as in my case I think this person was genuinely worried about me because I 'd had , it was my third child and I I do think she was er worried about me because er you know you do n't want to keep having babies and losing them but I was n't worried about , I was worried about myself , to say I was n't worried that 's stupid , but er we just hoped and hoped and kept hoping . |
| 16 | In our case I believe this stems both from the traditions of our company and also from the fact that we are a technical and scientifically based company : we therefore have the respect for the individual and the respect for novel ideas emanating from others that is a feature of the scientific method . |
| 17 | Into this category I put such obvious improvements as eliminating sexism from textbooks , other curriculum materials and examinations . |
| 18 | Chairman I think those were the main , main points that were mentioned . |
| 19 | Chairman I think this is probably the first time in this council chamber in twenty years that er I will probably have spoken on er social services issues er and I speak from an entirely private capacity and any information that er that comes my way is from what I might call informed members of the public erm , people who I come into contact with and from my own experiences as a ward councillor and from as we all do from time to time , my own family experience , my own domestic experiences and I do know something about the problems which are associated with the the care of elderly people er although I do n't have that problem now erm things have taken their course . |
| 20 | As a car driver I have conflicting reactions to hitchers . |
| 21 | I , I mean er yes as soon as , when you start making political change I think that 's revolution really , I mean you 're , you 're not |
| 22 | It was the Slippery Elm bark I think that 's what it was called . |
| 23 | It was my responsibility I brought that child into the world , and there was no way I was going to thrust her off onto other people . |
| 24 | In addition I recovered three William III sixpences that came up from a depth of between 9 to 10 inches . |
| 25 | In addition I feel well enough physically and to be honest I think I 've a good chance of at least two wins tomorrow . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Despite my close relationship with Sonauto I had solid contacts with Honda and I remember the problems I brought on myself . ’ |
| 27 | Sainsbury 's own-label champagne I bought two years ago tastes even better now , developing greater fullness and depth of flavour without losing its keen edge or sparkling personality . |
| 28 | ‘ I mean I 'm hoping to sell her a gorgeous blanket chest I discovered two weeks ago in Shropshire . ’ |
| 29 | Um and also it may be possible to y'know you may want to start out by showing people some stuff and trying to get them to talk about it so you you understand the sort of language concepts , repertoires , or whatever you want to call them , that people are actually using to try try and work out some more formal questions from that and move on to a questionnaire type thing y'know I mean that 's a possibility . |
| 30 | ‘ I have a little prayer I say three times before I come down , ’ he said at the time . |