Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] i [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 31 | My mother would often phone up around 5 am when I lived near her , and demand that I come over and cook her dinner . |
| 32 | ‘ You shatter my precious hours of rest with a phone call , demand that I get out of bed and then insult my coffee-making skills . |
| 33 | I suppose if I come around and ask each one of us this morning , can you give a definition ? |
| 34 | I feel like I got back my reputation by fighting to prove my innocence . |
| 35 | All this before I decide whether I smile back . |
| 36 | Well fuck when I come back up he near had the fucking front door broke trying to get it open so that they 'd come in the front and I see the kitchen door 's closed and I just walked in and I said well John the dishes or nothing 's done if you wan na go and have a look because he would n't do them . |
| 37 | There Art Garfunkel that is and I Believe When I Fall in Love it 'll be Forever . |
| 38 | I 'll get some things together and think , decide as I go along . |
| 39 | and go and I tack up the horse and I get on the horse and everything and I do n't mean to say |
| 40 | Well I just keep when I sit down , I 'm tired all the while and I 've got no appetite whatsoever . |
| 41 | Yes no I think once I turned round in that way and I would n't |
| 42 | I think if I went back to Africa I would n't even think of stealing . |
| 43 | I think if I get up at half five in the morning Jean , I 'll go to the park . |
| 44 | I think if I phoned up er , you know , er when I we do want one again and I 'll say , you know , I 'm sort of in my sixties will you do it ? |
| 45 | I think if I entered in , thinking like if it was in a good cause , |
| 46 | Mind if I come in ? ’ |
| 47 | Mind if I tag along ? ’ |
| 48 | I I 've been gon na move and move since I went on to it but it was so handy for |
| 49 | My idea — I admit that I came up with it only this morning — is that the entire transaction involving the definition of the terms of reference for the study for the consultants should then become public property and not an enclosed relationship with the promoters . |
| 50 | My legs buckle and I fall off the catwalk shouting , ‘ Stop it ! |
| 51 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |
| 52 | It 's not what you are and what you own that I care about . |
| 53 | But see if I get out in . |
| 54 | We hug and I rush off . |
| 55 | However much of a challenge the town presented , I figured I would cause less stir if I went in on foot than in a four-wheeled horseless vehicle . |
| 56 | It has a curiously defensive nature , I realize as I walk down it . |
| 57 | What was absorbing him so deeply , I realize as I go by , was the sight of his own living-room , with the curtains innocently open , and his wife and Millie moving silently about the bright world inside . |
| 58 | He says I have n't got you working long longer I worked the bigger the pension I have when I go out . |
| 59 | I did put my shoes on cos I thought I sha n't get them on in a minute because my feet swell when I sit down . |