Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] i [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We have both learnt our dialectic in the academic arena where knocks that would frighten the London literary coteries are given and taken in good part ; and even where you think me sometimes too pert you will not suspect me of malice . |
| 2 | Now going back to this handicraft , although I said I really did n't want to be committed to all the meetings , I 'm quite happy to carry on with the handicraft , providing you do n't expect me to turn up at every meeting . |
| 3 | Although I knew I probably should n't , I could n't help looking as he rummaged through the marvellous things in the cupboard . |
| 4 | It was years later that I realised I really would have to tackle it , but I found it was much easier than I had expected . |
| 5 | One of the main purposes of o of a consortium is actually looking at the health needs erm it 's impressions that I 've I actually got o on a number of occasions that I 've er I think involvement in assessing health needs but I 've actually answered anywhere er , and I 'd very interested as to how or what kind of input erm we will be looking to on that ? |
| 6 | She had become obsessed with Eliot and his work at the age of fourteen , after she had heard a recording of " The Journey of the Magi " : " It was extraordinary , " she said later , " that I felt I just had to get to Tom , to work with him . " |
| 7 | It 's amazing , even after a forty-year gap , that I feel I still have a rapport with most mineworkers because of my early days in the industry . |
| 8 | If I was to give my life to this orchestra then I could not allow that someone throw me out at a moment 's notice . |
| 9 | The doctors say he might go off sudden-like , so I thought I better warn you . ’ |
| 10 | Then one day I had to go to the Post Office for something — one of them forms I daresay — so I thought I better wrap up , I better take care , you 're very vulnerable after a long illness you know , and I put my old long mack on and one of the kids ' mack hats and Wellingtons and I went out in the rain , feeling , in a depressed sort of way , ‘ Well , if I get ill again , what can I do ? |
| 11 | He added a postscript in his own hand : ‘ I pray you that ye fail me not at this time in my great need , as ye will that I show you my good lordship in that matter that ye labour to me for . ’ |
| 12 | He added a postscript in his own hand : ‘ I pray you that ye fail me not at this time in my great need , as ye will that I show you my good lordship in that matter that ye labour to me for . ’ |
| 13 | My mother left them for me , although you realize I hardly knew her . |
| 14 | ‘ The beastly old woman has told me , quite bluntly , that she considers me very much an ex -wife . |
| 15 | I always felt that she cut me off just as we were becoming closer — and always when I most needed her . ’ |
| 16 | Whatever it was , I could no longer complain that she treated me more like a brother than a lover . |
| 17 | Poor child , it 's terrible that she loves me so much . ’ |
| 18 | On one occasion I remember that she promoted me very briefly for the space of an entire morning . |
| 19 | ‘ The upshot was , though , that she turned me down . |
| 20 | Immediately she asked me when I might be free , but I was able to murmur , ‘ It 's a little difficult , Mrs Fawcett , until I get around a bit more and establish some duty rosters . ’ |
| 21 | I 'm gon na tell her , that you woke me up Bruce . |
| 22 | Provided that you tell me truly . ’ |
| 23 | Cara had made it sound so easy when she 'd said ‘ All I 'm asking is that you bring me back relevant facts and answers ’ . |
| 24 | Now you 're trying to say that you led me on out of concern for him — ’ |
| 25 | ‘ What I require , Rasputin , is that you let me out of here and let me see Elaine . ’ |
| 26 | Thank you , Lord , that you know me through and through . |
| 27 | I demand that you take me back to the others now , this minute . ’ |
| 28 | Not the answer that you gave me before . ’ |
| 29 | God , do you think I 'd come near you , talk to you about it , touch you , if I did n't know for a certainty that you want me as badly as I do you ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Khan , it 's clear that you want me out of Kinsai . |