Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] i [verb] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But before I could say anything I discovered suddenly that I 'd meant nothing to you but an unimportant little romantic adventure , ’ he added bitterly . |
| 2 | It looked a scrappy goal , but slightly better once I had seen what really happened on the telly . |
| 3 | I 've also adopted the philosophy that I must develop somebody to do my job better than I have done it . |
| 4 | Ca n't say I 've learnt much although I 've started it again and again in the last two years . |
| 5 | pot it in once I 've got me boots . |
| 6 | He had n't slept in a bed like that before , yet there were all those advertisements for them on television , and they were on display in shop windows and in almost all the big stores in London so that I 'd imagined them in all the houses I could see from the bus . |
| 7 | Only that I 've heard it before . |
| 8 | ‘ Only that I 've seen them before . ’ |
| 9 | Perhaps if I 'd entered him for the Champion Hurdle , he might have sold . |
| 10 | Perhaps if I had allowed myself to be doubtful , I might have understood Mick 's concern about the rules , and his inability to express it without aggressive confrontation . |
| 11 | ‘ Nor have you wanted them from me , You 'd never have stayed around so long if I 'd pushed you about . ’ |
| 12 | I wo , could have been off there to get it in and I 've cut it somewhere . |
| 13 | And I have asked him in and I have fed him and given him milk and wine and a share of the fire ! |
| 14 | And it 's the usual , well you know son you 're getting on now and it 's time to settle down and I 've put your name down for agency in Taiwan or whatever , and we 've got this lovely girl who we think is ideal for you , da da , da da da and we 're sending over the papers for you to fill in . |
| 15 | And if Oliver wants to see me — which might be a good idea if I can talk some sense into him — then I 'll only do so if I 've cleared it with Stuart first . |
| 16 | Well I 'll tell you right now I have got another builder on but he 's taken one of the er the slots further down but I 've got one I 've got a prime er the the estate agent asked me to contact you because there is a prime slot left . |
| 17 | Or perhaps because I 've lulled her with bedtime stories embroidering our favourite theme : once upon a time there was a girl named Gittel , who had a curse called down upon her … |
| 18 | Perhaps because I have proven I am no mere parasite , and have helped her knock out one dazzling 1,500-word column for Outsider in record time . |
| 19 | ‘ I only popped in because I 'd heard you were in town . ’ |
| 20 | But the bank wo n't crash merely because I 've bought you a cup of tea and a few Carnival cakes . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I was actually satisfied with that , if only because I 'd resigned myself to the fact that I 'd never be thin , ’ she admits . |
| 22 | I put this down only because I have heard her daughter 's friends call her ‘ mannish ’ , and her own generation ‘ monstrous ’ . |
| 23 | I know you can do better because I 've heard you do it . ’ |
| 24 | How long since I 've seen it loose ? |
| 25 | They 've been closing down since I 've known them |
| 26 | A fortnight or so after I had dictated it in October 1971 , I had a telephone call from Harold Wilson to know whether I had read Wigg 's memoirs , and was I aware of the very personal attacks on him and Marcia Williams ? |
| 27 | This has happened to the car at some time in its past , as a result of which the crank shaft 's worn , the engine 's a bit dodgy , but I buy it 's not apparent when I buy it , but the engine breaks down after I 've bought it and I 've paid for this warranty , you 're going to come back and say ‘ oh , this was a defect inherent in the vehicle before you bought it , excluded by the warranty ’ . |
| 28 | Maureen said : ‘ I did n't think about them again until that psychic woman asked for them , but it was only after I had given them to her I realized they were n't his at all . |
| 29 | The lessons took place during the evening and then only after I had finished my regular school work for the day . |
| 30 | ’ She told it to them much as I 'd told her myself . |