Example sentences of "[conj] [subord] [pron] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am King of England — or so they tell me ! |
| 2 | No elil for miles , or so they tell me . |
| 3 | I did n't suffer from morning sickness but I 've become an insomniac over the months and had the good fortune ( or so they tell me ) to have a healthy foetus that started kicking me at thirteen weeks . |
| 4 | Or so they tell me . ) |
| 5 | And whether they tend to get older and move on , or like you say I totally agree , Have they took off somewhere else ? |
| 6 | Or if anybody told me , I mean I would n't and talking in confidence about their private life or |
| 7 | ‘ And I spent an hour greeting my guests , making a speech and ensuring the entertainment was fully organised for the evening , while I was trying to make up my mind whether your refusal to put in an appearance was because you cared for me — or because you hated me . ’ |
| 8 | I wonder whether he thought it was just the way the English talked , or whether he thought I was peculiar … |
| 9 | I 'm here to be made love to when you need to , or when you think I need to , just to cover up . |
| 10 | Knowing this , I was still impotent , for I had nothing to put in its stead , no one to turn to for advice or support , and I had learned for myself nothing of life except that I was bad at living , and that where I loved I met only rejection and disaster . |
| 11 | Alternatively , the joyous sound of bells may be ringing out the tune of 'Those beautiful red roses that once you gave me ’ , all over sunlit uplands — though I doubt that . |
| 12 | That 's been quite good that cos you know I had a hundred and ten pounds left |
| 13 | I think that until I drop I will clean wherever I happen to be on Saturday morning . |
| 14 | He looked at my work and said I had talent , but that I needed " earnest practice in drawing " , to which I wholly agree : He also said he would be glad to take me as his " chela " but that my name and work must go before the council of professors of the Academy , which meets next Thursday , 17th inst. and that if they accepted me I could start work on the following Monday , 21st inst . |
| 15 | ‘ But you can help me , Katie ; I 'd like you to spread the word around and tell people what my business is , and that if they need me I 'll be able to help and charge only a little interest . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Clients have to be — and are — aware that I 've got a young family and that if they ring me after 5pm there are likely to be children screaming for their tea in the background . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I also pointed out that if you scratch me I bite , ’ he reminded her softly . |
| 18 | In fact I 've often said that if you show me a system which does n't have a performance problem then you 've shown me a system which is a failure . |
| 19 | Well , I ca n't promise that if you leave I 'll be as generous as he was ; I 'll continue your allowance certainly , but as for a house , no ; for as you are well aware , because you know the books as well as I do , it takes us all our time , even with my salary , to continue living here as we have done of yore . |
| 20 | But then in the next fraction of the same instant I realized that if I thought I had ceased to exist then I existed that the very thinking of this thought was me . |
| 21 | I would have loved to have stayed because I really enjoy things like that , I love discos and get up and have a dance but I knew damn well that if I did I 'd be absolutely shattered today and I , I just would n't be with it so I , I said to Matthew I 'm going up . |
| 22 | His love of life is terribly strong , and he knows that if he kills me , he too will die . |
| 23 | You can tell him from me that if he wants me to stay in this urban backwater of yours he 'll have to provide me with an interesting occupation — and I do n't mean modelling your dress . |
| 24 | Lord Home ordered his agents in Scotland to seize Brown as soon as he landed and to impress upon him ‘ what is very trew that if he oppose me he will dissoblige Prince Waldeck and all his officers ’ , and thus presumably ruin any chance which he might have of advancement . |
| 25 | That he heard I was so tremendously successful in the Gothic style that if he let me alone I should Gothicize the whole country , &c. , &c. , & c . |
| 26 | A moment later the wizard was standing over him , shouting , ‘ Tell it that if it singes me I 'll let the sword go ! |
| 27 | I wonder if she 'd say that if she knew I was to blame ? he thought . |
| 28 | I told that woman that if she offered me |
| 29 | I suddenly realized that if she suspected I knew of her guilt , she might attack me . |
| 30 | And when anyone treats my daughter like that I find it very hard to forgive , I know it hurts my kids , I 'm much more up in arms than if they hurt me . |