Example sentences of "[vb -s] i [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My chaplain begs me to say more but I sha n't satisfy him ! ] |
| 2 | I think about phoning her mobile but she hates me doing that so I do n't . |
| 3 | Well , he keeps calling me Mr Robbie , because , for some reason , he thinks I resemble this silly character . |
| 4 | At Liverpool the Principal wrote , also at the end of 1967 , that within the new polytechnic ‘ there will be complete autonomy in respect of the academic work of the Faculty of Art and nothing that has been said causes me to have any misgivings on this score . |
| 5 | The experience of watching my late husband 's 16-year fight against the degenerative effects of Parkinson 's disease ( one of those conditions which might one day benefit from embryo research ) causes me to write this letter in the hope that all who take part in the debates will recognise and confound these tactics of the anti-abortion pressure groups , quite rightly described by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service as ‘ an attempt to hijack government legislation ’ . |
| 6 | So he has me do that and on other songs he has me play bass . |
| 7 | Adam wants me to collect some things that he forgot , and take them to the hospital . ’ |
| 8 | My wife wants me to do these things . |
| 9 | I 'm often asked if I get sick of making presentations and signing autographs but I always answer by saying that the time to worry is when no-one wants me to do these things . |
| 10 | He says he wants me to meet some of his friends . |
| 11 | He wants me to have some tinned pears which have come in from South Africa . |
| 12 | That has I mean most of the welfare state has been er it 'll either created or extended by Conservative government so |
| 13 | get in the buggy and I 'll close this door , where have I put the lock ? , oh it 's not good we 're gon na have to get a new garage door , that one nearly kills me lifting that up , scraping it along the ground , you 're in are you ? , oh very good , two of you in , Richard , come and get in , just a minute where 's your , let me clip you in |
| 14 | This allows me to mix any colour I want , and to be economic as I have no need for numerous bottles of ink . |
| 15 | And the next time it happens I remember this , but instead of making me determined to do better , I freeze again . |
| 16 | It so happens I spent most of mine at the cinema . |
| 17 | And , he said yes I do and waved the leaflet at me , he says I know all about that but but you 've got to now otherwise you you |
| 18 | You know my mum came up , she comes up and says I know this already you know , mum came up , saying , |
| 19 | He says there ai n't nothing else next and er so er I stood there and I said this , kind of like this I 've got ta do something so er I went er to pick sommat up down the back but before that he said , here you are , he says I put these ready all you got ta do is put the screws in those locks you know , like . |
| 20 | Let me give you one scripture in closing , in two Timothy chapter one and verse twelve , the apostle says , for this reason , he says I suffer these things but I am not ashamed , for I know whom I have believed , and I am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day . |
| 21 | you know and she says well I said that 's the only way Lindsey you 're going to get it and I says I mean that 's the only way you 're going to get it . |
| 22 | yeah , well I , Mike says I brought that one home when we were looking for a hall instead , but I said no I said it was one very similar , but he said we could n't have it because erm |
| 23 | Well who the fucking hell says I did that ? |
| 24 | He says I think most people think of flowers as looking pretty and smelling beautiful . |
| 25 | I find that the minute I write down , erm , you know , somebody phones me and says I want another meeting with you , let's make it for next Friday at three o'clock in the afternoon , and I find within half an hour of me writing that down on the calendar card in ink , er , the people who 's parentage I then start to question , phone back and say well whoops , you know we , we forgot we actually had another meeting then , and so on and so forth . |
| 26 | And er the car arrives I looked all I could see was mother sitting in the car and puffing this smoke puffing out through the window |
| 27 | Well I do n't think it 'll be a good idea at all because my no my knowledge of tin foil leads me to believe that tin foil wrapped on tin foil falls off . |
| 28 | He checks I got enough money to buy the string , and then I go off . |
| 29 | And that , and that keeps me going all week so I had to go and pick that up and of course we we went in , then we were late . |
| 30 | Gets me to do all her tricky mending , my sister Malkele , always has done . |