Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] i [vb base] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every time I come here I begin to worry that I have somehow crossed into another stream and am sailing back in the opposite direction . |
| 2 | I do n't know that I 've even seen that . |
| 3 | ‘ It may interest you to know that I 've just had Mr Standish on the phone . |
| 4 | Will he also recognise that I have never believed that there are no Tories in Scotland , for one Tory has spoken for Conservative respectability in Scotland , and he is the hon. Member for Dumfries ( Sir H. Monro ) ? |
| 5 | Well really , looks like I 've only done two each but I think I 'll freeze I 'll only cut two up lovely ! |
| 6 | It 's , I 'm really really busy at work , I 'm at a warehouse , and I do n't know if I 've maybe caught a muscle . |
| 7 | and he wants some long-line , well I did have some , but I do n't know if I 've still got them |
| 8 | Right , but we have covered most things that 's ev , I do n't know if I 've actually missed anything out , right but just to clarify my thinking what is it you do actually want to think about , is it the the colour , is it what glass you want in the bathroom ? |
| 9 | Your party , your other , never mind , and when that happens you get poaching and I 've always said , if you treat your membership properly they 'll stay with you , but you 've also got to remember that the union is in dire financial straits , or so it tells us . |
| 10 | I was actually quite low on the activists and higher on these three but I managed to wonder sometimes where I worked ever so hard on a session I ca n't really ca n't understand you know why it 's not going very well and I thought well when I then watched other people do something that had a lot of action I thought well why did they like that more and I never I did n't know but I 've actually learnt that you have to put activities in , cos you , you know you do get people with a very strong activist preference . |
| 11 | The trouble is I did n't know because I 've never heard the word before . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't know because I have only played with Rush , ’ said Dalglish . |
| 13 | If you say something to me I check that I have understood your message by saying it back to you in my own words , for if I repeat your own words exactly you will doubt whether I have really understood you . |
| 14 | Steven Isserlis has said that he needs ‘ a safety net not to have to worry whether I 've ever played this or that bar properly during the session and also someone who knows the kind of musical personality I am and whether I have covered a particular stretch of music the way I would want . |
| 15 | I even know , thanks to Montesquieu , that one may be a Persian , but as for Man , I declare that I have never met him in my life ; if he exists it is without my knowledge.1 |
| 16 | Fear that I have only dreamed of moving forward , that when I go in and face it I will see that it is a mistake , not possible , uninteresting . |
| 17 | Gervase , you have perhaps noticed that I have never removed my underpants in your presence . |
| 18 | I am still dreaming of the white cotton lace bedspread that I have always promised to knit for my ‘ best friend ’ because I know that she had always wanted one . |
| 19 | It 's not emotional blackmail — but once or twice recently , I 've felt that I 've nearly bought it . |
| 20 | I stand with the phone in my hand , remembering that I have still had no lunch . |
| 21 | I hope that the reader will feel that I have satisfactorily dealt with the first . |
| 22 | As a younger person I , I would expect that I 've probably got another fifteen years to go to the menopause , but I 'm looking forward to it as a relief from pre-menstrual syndrome ! |
| 23 | Though it has to be said , he wrote , and Goldberg , his eye racing down the page covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , paused to sip from the glass of fresh orange-juice at his side , wiped his forehead and went on typing , it has to be said that I have occasionally had the illusion that I knew what step to take first and even , occasionally , what step to take second , I will not talk about a third . |
| 24 | I got the tonight I 've er I 've got erm the baby seat done today sort of like a baby seat in the back so I wait until I get really lumbered like , you know , cos er , if you have the then you can take it back after it 's born and er , get a refund on it get all the money back . |
| 25 | There was no doubt in my mind what I would do and I 've never regretted going into the business because we 've seen it grow enormously . |
| 26 | Neither of us has talked about it and I had not said I was writing until I have now started , but your father says he lay awake nearly all night thinking about it . |
| 27 | Robins , clutching the ball after his first senior hat-trick , said : ‘ Comparisons are bound to be made because I 've just scored three on TV and United are struggling . |
| 28 | And he said : ‘ I 've had a good rest now and it remains to be seen whether I have still got it . |
| 29 | Several times it 's happened to me that someone has come up to me and asked if I 've ever done a play . |
| 30 | Most general practitioners accepted that the service delivered was what you got and I have often had to persuade the patient to accept that . |