Example sentences of "i this " in BNC.
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| 1 | To me this is odd as if I were the president of South Korea I would have imprisoned Kim Hyun-hui and released Im Su Kyong as to me Kim Hyun-hui committed the more serious crime . |
| 2 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 3 | ‘ I … you brought me all the way up here … moonlight and dinner , to tell me this ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Here you are talking and holding forth , ’ says the latter , ‘ but tell me this : are you going to kill the old woman yourself ? ’ |
| 5 | that closes round me this year . |
| 6 | Economists have told me this could be the final push that will consign up to 250,000 people to the scrap heap . ’ |
| 7 | Maybe the police has made me this way , but do you not see that if you 're going to come in here asking me questions about my family , if you 're going to want to know all these things , I 've got to be able to trust you ? |
| 8 | ‘ Stand at ease , Piper , ’ remarked Charlie , a big grin on his face , then he went serious and remarked slowly , ‘ You have done what you came here to do , Piper ; you piped Lovat 's brigade ashore and now I would like you to return to Achnacarry with me this evening . |
| 9 | Since Siah told me this story about a supreme storyteller , 1 have told the story myself many times . |
| 10 | Marie bought me this blummin huge jigsaw with millions of bits . |
| 11 | Dad patted me on the head and Mum gives me this little kiss on the cheek and then they went off and left me with this old woman . |
| 12 | Tell me this , ’ Doctor Staples asked , ‘ you 've been depressed lately , am I right ? |
| 13 | For me this is the message of Kenya — Praise God . |
| 14 | ‘ But give me this any time , ’ he laughed . |
| 15 | You will be wondering , what is the message of Christmas for me this year in the face of this or that problem ? |
| 16 | Telephone me this evening — at the theatre . |
| 17 | What likes have your sisters been spreading about me this time ? |
| 18 | ‘ I know I 'm your therapist , but I do n't think it 's a good idea to tell me this . |
| 19 | ‘ But why did you make me this way ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Jahsaxa , do n't push me this way ! ’ |
| 21 | I remember Geoff telling me this , tears streaming down his face , marvelling at how it was his children who had the strength to carry on , and that it was they who had this practical , yet profound way of reaching to the heart of the matter . |
| 22 | She had given me this book , Period , and she says that how you feel about your first period affects you all your life , it affects your self-image , so it 's very important . |
| 23 | My mum always tells me I 'm the most beautiful woman in the world ; she told me this even when I had chickenpox ! ’ |
| 24 | I know that he kicked and punched me ; I know he told me this was what I wanted , that no one would ever love me , and this was all I was fit for ; and I know he raped me . |
| 25 | Allen : He did n't tell me this . |
| 26 | A friend showed me this in the newspaper . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm disappointed for those under 14s who have n't had a chance to see me this time , but I 'm looking forward to doing a full scale tour probably next year when everyone will have a chance to come along , ’ she added . |
| 28 | ‘ He told me when he gave me this one . ’ |
| 29 | He gave me this . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Behold , thou hast driven me this day away from the ground ; and from thy face I shall be hidden ; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth and whoever finds me will slay me . ’ |