Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to . |
| 2 | ‘ As a matter of fact , ’ Alec Reid firmed down a new pipeful of tobacco , ‘ I might ha ’ made a name for meself had I remained in Edinburgh . |
| 3 | " I can not accept lectures , " he told his guests , " because the people who pay for them expect me to attend cocktail parties at which I am caught between someone wanting to know what I think of existentialism and someone asking me what I really meant by such-and-such a line " . |
| 4 | anyway he walked , he was only away about twenty minutes you know he wanted to get the car and for me to drive I thought well er |
| 5 | So erm you know you , you , you I mean I 'm I N F J and so it 's alright for me to think I 've changed your thinking . |
| 6 | Shortly before Christmas and in the middle of correcting the proofs , he wrote to Rohde again : " The whole last part , which you do not know , will certainly astonish you ; I have been very daring , and I can cry out to myself in an altogether enormous sense , animam salvavi [ I have saved my soul ] ; for which reason I think of the book with great satisfaction and am not worried for it turns out to cause the greatest possible offence and in some quarters a " cry of outrage " greets its publication . |
| 7 | I had a nurse either side of me telling me to push , but I could n't push . |
| 8 | It was nice of them to let me join in , they were very patient , but you could see they were itching for a good game and I 'm just hopeless . |
| 9 | They seemed happy about my victory in Germany and most of them expected me to win more races last year . ’ |
| 10 | Some of them became my friends and have remained so until the present day , but the sheer earthy mass of them made me realize how my few months of married life had changed me . |
| 11 | Anyway , one of them told me to stay and gave me a raffle ticket . |
| 12 | At none of them did I seem to do well . |
| 13 | But this kid goes haywire and a lot of them do I mean he 's all crash bang wallop is n't he ? |
| 14 | One of them slugged me to shut me up . ’ |
| 15 | But a lot of I mean I mean there 's no sort of set- up and strategy for rail as a sort of within an integrated transport policy phone call from er John Prescott who er Tories in in transport . |
| 16 | And erm I they had to have a couple of I mean I think |
| 17 | ‘ All right , then , tell me what it was this friend of yours had me do for him , and I 'll tell you whether I can do ‘ something similar ’ . ’ |
| 18 | On the probable site of Wallace 's birthplace at Elderslie a modern memorial bears inscriptions in Gaelic ( Bas agus Buaiad — Death and Victory ) , English , and Latin , a translation of which reads I tell you the truth . |
| 19 | It had two wings , one of which made me think of a church . |
| 20 | Only that you have a sharp tongue and an undisciplined sister , neither of which attributes I find endearing . |
| 21 | All of which makes me wonder how well this very American , sugar-pie world will translate to Europe . |
| 22 | Tinbergen ( 1958 ) describes his delightful experiments on Philanthus , only one of which did I have space to explain . |
| 23 | ‘ Thanks , Dad , that was jolly sporting of you to let me have first cast . |
| 24 | ‘ It was kind of you to let me know . |
| 25 | ‘ And I still find the idea of you wanting me to do it … unsettling . ’ |
| 26 | Mm , mm its one of the great arguments from the old fashioned sort of religion , that you could turn , you could definitely turn to people and say why are you leaning on me so hard , for all this to fought , you ought to be reading your bible , saying your prayers , going to church and getting in touch with the boss why I laughed when they were saying that Terry Waite would need counselling , I bet that Terry Waite was praying his head off and he 'd memorised masses of the bible which he would be reciting to himself probably set himself two o'clock every afternoon , I remember what I can , book of you know I do n't suppose he 'd needed any counselling , he 'd probably do better counselling other people . |
| 27 | Yet 32 million of you watched me talking directly to you for half-an-hour in prime time ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ Lowering of you to expect me to remember . |
| 29 | as opposed to that was a part of being a tenant , you know , for the honour of you pay me rent but you also come and work on my land for how many days |
| 30 | I ca n't think of one shot I 've taken that would be out of place in a family album . |