Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I took myself off to my billet , feeling bloody frustrated and edgy , might I add , and thence to bed , where I thought about it . |
| 2 | Where I differ from him is on the nature of the collection as a whole , which to me seems a collection of poems differing in method and indeed quality , written over a period of years , and having two distinct sequences , to the Friend and to the ‘ Dark Lady ’ . |
| 3 | Their voices can be heard throughout the following pages , where I refer to them consistently by name . |
| 4 | ‘ Where I come from it 's tougher country than this . ’ |
| 5 | erm in the days when they had terraced houses back to back terraced houses erm well anywhere in the country I guess but but where I come from it was fine for the people who lived with their doors on the on the road but the people who lived at the other side of the block they could n't get from the road so every so often down the down the terrace they had a little alley way an entry I think you 'd probably call it in Scotland , do n't they ? |
| 6 | ‘ Where I work for you ? ’ |
| 7 | Just to look at the cradle he had ready and waiting with its green cover there in the living room transported him , ‘ though it was only a hospital where she was lying and where I sat near her . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You are a good officer , Merymose , ’ he said at last , ‘ and although I disagree with you about the capability of our Medjays , I respect your judgment . |
| 9 | ‘ Although I weep for you , he said , |
| 10 | Can I bring you erm back to the U K and what we can do in the U K , although I agree with you , we need to be looking with certain organisations at regulation on a Trans-Atlantic basis , but from a U K point of view , erm the Good Committee Report has suggested that a pensions regulator should er be brought into being . |
| 11 | Without pausing , she hurried on and although I called after her she did n't stop until she had reached the other side and scrambled up the rocky gully to the top . |
| 12 | It 's more than I saw of him . |
| 13 | I seem to have more time for her than I had with them , and I still do my housework and all the washing . |
| 14 | ‘ The players seemed to have much less belief in themselves than I had in them . |
| 15 | And I hope that when-that officer has to interview someone he gets more co-operation than I had from you . ’ |
| 16 | Hardly had I uttered the word — or the phrase signifying it — than I felt within me the need to become what I had been accused of being … . |
| 17 | ‘ But that 's hardly more than I paid for it ! ’ protested Edward Crumwallis , his voice high with outrage and fear . |
| 18 | ‘ Allowing for inflation , it 's very much less than I paid for it . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ For your information , I do n't believe in double standards for men — any more than I believe in them for women . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't belong in his life , any more than I belong in yours or in anybody 's . |
| 21 | They seem to say I spend more time with reptiles than I do with them or some people are very scared so they do n't tend to come around . |
| 22 | Then I 'ad to get a job ; that 's when I saw a notice in a shop window about a Brixton fam'ly wantin' a maid , so I went after it . |
| 23 | But I was bad again , so I came off it . |
| 24 | ‘ She was going back here so I came with her . ’ |
| 25 | Then she asked if I would knit some for other mothers , so I agreed to her putting my name on her notice board . |
| 26 | It was n't long after the conversation about the Ivor Novello Award that he became much more resolved that he did n't need Ken Pitt as manager , so I said to him that the only thing he could do in that case was to get an attorney who would break the contract . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'd been getting records on tick from Billy for ages , ’ explains Havanna 's Tony Scott , ‘ so I said to him ‘ If I make up a record , would you square up the bill ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ So I said to him , ’ said John , ‘ do me a favour and go back to America and give the Red Indians home rule . ’ |
| 29 | I got down there just now so I said to him |
| 30 | He was older so I listened to him , so I 'd shoplift all these things and give them to him . ’ |