Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [pron] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I could never do that to her , ’ I said , ‘ or perhaps I mean I could never do it to myself . |
| 2 | He has forgotten that I do not drink , or perhaps he thinks I am bluffing . |
| 3 | Similar sort of guitar work apparently or so they tell me . |
| 4 | He seemed to be awake for a long time , I think , you know like you wake up and you do n't know what to do with yourself , I think it was like that , so every quarter of an hour or so he kept me , shouting for a drink he did n't know quite what to do with himself |
| 5 | ( Or so he told me . |
| 6 | Or so he told me . |
| 7 | Or anyway he sold me timber . ’ |
| 8 | Leslie took the opportunity to visit Carthage : ‘ There is literally nothing there , ’ he wrote , ‘ but I felt the atmosphere — or maybe I imagined I did . ’ |
| 9 | And she 'd already been with me for several years before we met , so you felt that perhaps she knew me better than you did , and you hated that . ’ |
| 10 | It suddenly crossed my mind that perhaps he thought I had come to see him on a professional level , that I was in need of spiritual help or whatever . |
| 11 | I mean it , it would be very easy to say that basically you know I do n't know , the , the poor peasants banding around all peasants , you know Mao saw them and knew that this was where the , the core of erm the revolution |
| 12 | ‘ Do I thank you that yesterday you thought me a friend ? ’ he questioned drily , and for a moment she thought she caught a glimpse of yesterday 's charm in his look . |
| 13 | I 'll bet she thinks that directly she lets me into the A.R.R.U. I 'll do a Charlie Peters ! |
| 14 | There was also a stage where I deeply resented the foetus , although now I think I have killed this feeling . |
| 15 | That is if you go back to the Kinsey sort of stuff about sexuality um you find that well I 've I 've stuck a quote from Kinsey et al there um that back in the 1950's there was er y'know with with ah academics like Kinsey attempting to study sexuality erm I suppose there was often er a . |
| 16 | I said that I accepted that maybe he hated me and that he wanted nothing to do with me . |
| 17 | And having my kind of build , being quite big and wearing miniskirts , I know that sometimes it gets me the wrong kind of attention from boys only interested in physical relationships . |
| 18 | Although occasionally she reminds me of Liza at that age . ’ |
| 19 | I 'm admitting that actually I wish I could write a regular article about the tiny changes that occur every minute in the life and love of a brand-new family . |
| 20 | The idea is that you 're aware of people around you , but I was particularly sensitive to the vibrations and eventually they drove me mad . ’ |
| 21 | But he did n't live at that address and eventually he took me to his own home . |
| 22 | And besides he repels me , so clumsy and big with his cat eyes . |
| 23 | I looked around the coach , and suddenly I thought I understood the reason for the strange smell . |
| 24 | I was quite prepared to die without giving it too much thought , you understand — and suddenly I find I 've got up steam and I 've puff-puffed past the station labelled ‘ Death ’ and the track lies all before me , unsignposted . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I just came in to buy some flowers and a paper and suddenly I find I 'm in the middle of it all . |
| 26 | ‘ I was sitting there one day trying to think what was better than climbing a mountain — and suddenly it hit me … climbing two ! ’ he says . |
| 27 | And she 's looking in her purse and everything and suddenly she goes I know what it is ! |
| 28 | So I was close by and so they sent me in so the way I , I got dressed up in the minister 's cassock , and I got in revised the books of Genesis , like through and I get genned up to be a minister and I took in a bible and er well anyway I killed five men and they got out alive . |
| 29 | and we will give you a er , two addresses , and so they gave me two addresses and and to reach people at I 've done the job quite well . |
| 30 | I work hard at dull , practical things , she thought , and so everyone thinks I must be mature and reliable and sensible ; but really it 's because I ca n't cope with the other things , the things that are frightening and dangerous . |