Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] i [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well no I did it last week and one of the references I could n't remember the name of the woman , so I just put Mrs blank and I just left it so I thought I 'd do it again cos there were a couple of bits I did wrong and a bit dodgy , so I though save me writing it I 'll just do it all over again but it looks like I 'm not gon na be able to now because we 've brought out here for a piddling stupid fire drill ! |
| 2 | Thing is I , I do n't know if I 'm just imagining that I have n't got any , this this does n't really work . |
| 3 | There are so many versions of it already , and now does n't seem the right time to do it — I think I would rather wait until I was more established , and have something different to say about it . ’ |
| 4 | Erm , where possibly like the , the anorexic , well I do n't know cos I 'm not speaking from an anorexic point of view , but I think the , the point we 're saying , emotions are there but they 're dealt with in a , a different way , you know they perhaps starve themselves erm , to sort of like , erm you know ge , get across these emotions , to deal with these emotions . |
| 5 | I walked slowly back up the shabby road to this now miserable room , thinking all the while of what I ought to do or what I could do if I was ever going to outmanoeuvre these cunning poisoners . |
| 6 | does n't matter if I 'm not going to name any names but I mean I 've seen some people who it 's been suggested might stand two hoots of a flick of a finger whether someone of the sort that I 've seen mentioned , stood or not . |
| 7 | I says when I 'm not feeling well or slept in I says I 'm gon na phone police station , I 'm gon na go from there , see what they say . |
| 8 | Well they 'll just have to wait cos I 'm not leaving my thingey in here printing ! |
| 9 | I mean if I 'm not working in the lab then there are going to be times when I shall be short of a job … ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Now it may look like I 'm just messing around with cars , but my job as a Kwik-Fit fitter means I 've always got plenty to do . ’ |
| 11 | But should n't I do better work if I were n't driven from pillar to post to supplement my salary ? |
| 12 | Even now I am ashamed when I think of the night I ‘ let fly ’ to one of our best auxiliary nurses who had come to ask me to help when I was just going off duty . |
| 13 | I feel like I 'm fucking gon na — ’ |
| 14 | But sometimes I feel like I 'm definitely going the other way . |
| 15 | I had been taught not to cry till I was really hurt , and so it was not until about eleven o'clock I really began to be noticed and I went into the theatre . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ She appears when I am alone clearing up the bar . |
| 17 | Why do n't you go if I 'm not going ? |
| 18 | Erm well er yes I thought cos I 'm just measuring the |
| 19 | I did n't go because I was suddenly seized by an overwhelming passion for him , we did n't make love on the tiger-skin rug in that little box of a room you gave him , his pear-shaped body pressed against my ageing but still voluptuous frame . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ That is because you always cheat when I am not looking , instead of applying yourself to win by intelligence . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I have no rational ground for going back on the arguments that convinced me of God 's existence : but the irrational deadweight of my old sceptical habits , and the spirit of the age , and the cares of the day , steal away all my lively feeling of the truth , and often when I pray I wonder if I am not posting letters to a non-existent address . ’ |
| 22 | It is n't forever , I know , but there are times when I wonder if I 'm not missing out on other things that can be equally important . ’ |
| 23 | so I 'm going to fix it so that 's the that 's what I do cos I 'm just going to say let Y equal U |
| 24 | I think 'cos I 'm more grown up and so is she . |
| 25 | he did when I was n't acting thick . |
| 26 | ‘ No , Mrs Sutherland , you look at me because I want to see you understanding what I 'm going to say 'cause I 'm never discussing this again with anyone . ’ |
| 27 | He had the one song and said cos I 'm not gon na ask her to sing cos she might get embarrassed . |
| 28 | ‘ You go and look after things ’ , he said as I was about to leave , and his last words to me were ‘ Bless you and keep you ! ’ |
| 29 | That was , that was what the crew were getting four pound a week and course my father that time he done away with a cabin boy so I had to do more or less two jobs , see if I were n't working on deck I 'd go down and clean the cabins and that 's how , that 's how we kept the money going course then after a few years when they got to the finish about nineteen thirty one then the harbourmaster turned round and he ruc reduced our wages five shillings a week , so we were getting three pound fifteen a week . |
| 30 | We can do it , and if you do , I do n't know , say five calls a day , let us say because I 'm not making any rules , erm , if you could six calls day , without any doubt it would increase your sales by twenty percent , it 'd be good that . |