Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb -s] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I divvy up the crap into the rightful pedal bins and trolley them around the building , where nobody knows me . |
| 2 | With a karate chop to the nape of my neck , my masseuse gets me back where she wants me . |
| 3 | ‘ Where else — where he goes I go . |
| 4 | And the situations I imagine ( where he forsakes me ) are real . |
| 5 | ‘ Although someone supervises me at all times , I handle all my cases myself . |
| 6 | " She does n't say so , but at times I think she expects me to although she knows I ca n't . |
| 7 | ‘ So she tells me . ’ |
| 8 | But it 's as well Mrs Abberley made a clean breast of it when she did , especially since the tape recording confirms — so she tells me — the existence of the letters which … which has been called into question in certain quarters . ’ |
| 9 | Erm , the the other things is a little while ago she was erm , er , er you know , giving me bills like for about five or six pounds once for cleaning materials , and I queried this , because it 's quite a lot of money and erm , so she tells me that she buys expensive erm bleach and she uses a bottle of that a week , well she only comes in three times , and I said well , that 's very extravagant I said and told her what , but since I told her that . |
| 10 | And she is a woman with no husband and no son , so she hates me , too . |
| 11 | Aye , so she says I do n't think I 'll bother I just put it in a bargain |
| 12 | I forget the country , I could n't remember Eileen was laughing , so she says I do n't know how Kevin would be , I do n't know whether it 's today , he 's gone she said , he 's had to have one up his bum |
| 13 | ‘ She 'll leave me alone once she sees I 'm serious about you ! ’ |
| 14 | This sounds like a wonderful opportunity for Letterman to bring to bear his feminine understanding on eager actresses , although something tells me that his Californian slightly-absurd-boyish-middle-aged charm will not go down well in Paris . |
| 15 | No not really — they just sit down and they listen to me and they 'll say something — " Brenda where you come from ? " [ laughs ] somefin' like that , you know what I mean , cause I 'm born English so they aks me what I want to speak Patois for ? |
| 16 | Now I know it 's a lot to expect , what with your sister still only nineteen , and the old a ‘ Buck ’ being every year of sixty five , so they tells me , but May and September 's always been a heady mix , and the old fool seems besotted . ’ |
| 17 | Aye they did although it takes me a bit of time to think about it but erm they did have a a er a black book , aye . |
| 18 | So I said , ‘ Look , I just do n't want it , ’ so he tells me not to be so clever . |
| 19 | ‘ In the top five per cent of his class , so he tells me . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ So he tells me . ’ |
| 21 | It 's not just that Mr Parnham knows the count , it 's an idea the old boy 's been floating for a while , so he tells me . |
| 22 | driver for me on the phone , so he calls me up , oh we 've got load of them he said |
| 23 | He 's mad on polo so he takes me to the Hurlingham Club to watch him play . |
| 24 | Oh yes it 's , it 's been changed a lot and a , and er , it 's made such a difference and I 've met er , I 've got a er fr a very good friend who 's , who 's a Red Cross young man who I met at Leah Manning and he takes me out in the car which I would n't , never get out otherwise because my boys are all working you see they ca n't , they 're busy working and erm do shift work and security work , one 's got his own security business and the other one 's got a factory in Bishop 's Stortford so that they do n't get much chance , they work away , some of them do that they can not get to take me out see , so he takes me out , which he 's very , very good you know , he 's , yesterday he took me to erm , yesterday we , he took me to Ongar to see his sister in the bungalow and then he took me for a meal at erm The Chariot at er , at Brentwood , Brentwood , yes Brentwood The Chariot , it was quite nice I had rather , a good time , erm cos usually I ca n't get out unless I go out in the wheelchair you see I 'm confined to a wheelchair , though I struggle out into the kitchen with me two sticks and I 've got a stool in there that I do all my own cooking and I make cakes and that and I 'm doing a cake gon na make a cake for Christmas for me brother and make a cake , er another one for myself like , but , and then I go to my erm daughter-in-law 's to spend Christmas Day and then I , I 'm going to my son 's and spend Boxing Day which is my birthday , I 'll be seventy four on Boxing Day I 'm dreaded to say , yeah , but erm , this young man that takes me lives in Northbrooks , he 's er a widower , but he 's very , very good , he helps all us old people , you know , he 's ever so good he is to me , he comes up and brings my shopping today , does my shopping for me as well , so , well he 's , yes , he 's most kind , for , nearly two years I 've know him , that 's a photo over there , it was taken at a wedding look , of my , that 's it , over there , taken at a wedding dear , very good |
| 25 | Well the bugger is just coming on and he was cleaning the car down hosing her car so he says I turned the hose on him . |
| 26 | Ryan he says it 's foolish , cards , he says mum when you just , you just put them somewhere and forget where you put them , so he says I 've decided to buy you oh this looks a lovely one |
| 27 | He ca n't cuddle me any more and tell me everything 's going to be all right , so he hits me to show he 's still the boss . |
| 28 | To mark his disapproval of my doing so he gives me the wrong ticket and some change , of which the amount , as far as I can see , bears no relation to any previous transaction between us . |
| 29 | She had said obstinately : ‘ I do n't see why he should chuck his weapons once he knows I 've got nothing . ’ |
| 30 | We behaved this way in days of old empire so it surprises me not at all that Japan may now buy The Belfry , of Ryder Cup fame . |