Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb -s] i [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The beastly old woman has told me , quite bluntly , that she considers me very much an ex -wife . |
| 2 | Poor child , it 's terrible that she loves me so much . ’ |
| 3 | For God 's sake , what is it I have got from him , that it sets me so high ? |
| 4 | She says in her letter that he misses me dreadfully . ’ |
| 5 | So I said , ‘ Look , I just do n't want it , ’ so he tells me not to be so clever . |
| 6 | driver for me on the phone , so he calls me up , oh we 've got load of them he said |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Everyone says how well I 've done and nobody teases me now . |
| 10 | ‘ She 's afraid of me , and she hates me too . |
| 11 | She is pregnant , after all — prodigious , luminous ; and she pampers me outrageously . |
| 12 | I was padded up with me mate and she says I just went weird . |
| 13 | And she says I just turned away too . |
| 14 | He says : ‘ I talk to her like an adult and she bosses me around . |
| 15 | I let her share my house because she could only afford a tiny flat of her own , and she bosses me around as if she 's the one with the money . |
| 16 | I said I would make them a hundred butterfly cakes , and they either they 'll eat them or they 'll sell them , and I 'll hav I 'll try and have them ready for when rings up at half past one and if they sell them and she brings me any I would n't mind knocking a few more up for tomorrow , but I 'm not gon na give them all |
| 17 | I did n't feel loved before , but now I have somebody that 's dependent on me , I have something of my own to love , and she loves me back . |
| 18 | and then , she tells me to put the phone down , and she rings me back . |
| 19 | Mom always stays near the house nowadays , and she wants me around . |
| 20 | ‘ I get enough help — yes , I 'm quite satisfied … but it 's just that … she has to be watched all the time ; and it 's very hard to cope with her lack of response ; and she follows me everywhere … |
| 21 | Cos she beats me up ! |
| 22 | ‘ If she accosts me again , he grumbled , ‘ I 'll burn the bitch ! ’ |
| 23 | comes back and says when the teacher come , the teacher was there this time , urgh the showers are on , Geoffrey switched the showers on and then they all start chanting Geoffrey switched the showers on , Geoffrey switched the showers on and er , loads of them , not just him , a load of them did it , and he , he started to cry , and then that was it then were n't it , ooh tiny tears , tiny tears , ooh poofter , poofter , crying and all that I mean he had a right day with it , so he goes to school this morning in Geography and the every body in the class , the girls and every body were going tiny tears , tiny tears , and he said I just ignored it today he says I just took no notice he says , but they 're all going , how 's your tears Geoffrey , are we going to cry again today , he says and they were trying to get me to cry today he says , but I just took no notice and Stuart kept going like this Geoff and he says I just went so he , he did the same back and then he went Geoff and Geoffrey just went , I mean what you do ? , |
| 24 | I was born a poor black boy down in Mississippi , out in Alabama and he 's like a jet white ai n't he ? and he says I always felt different cos all the other kids they just sit there and they 'd be tapping their feet and then you go onto the oh and they 're getting the old rhythm going , like they do and he 'd be going like I all so different I could n't quite do this and he used to get in look , and er |
| 25 | He wonders why I 'm not caddying for Arnold Palmer , so I tell him there 's been a mix-up and he takes me on . |
| 26 | He does n't like to be seen with mum and dad , but when I 'm poorly and he takes me out in the wheelchair , he does n't mind who he meets and he says : ‘ Hi fellas , this is my mum . ’ |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | Kegan says they 're driving him mad already and he wants me there right away to talk to some bloody newspaper people . |
| 29 | And it takes me over an hour to dry him . |
| 30 | Mhm I wan na go to because then I get a and it takes me about half an hour to get home . |