Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] i [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looked a scrappy goal , but slightly better once I had seen what really happened on the telly . |
| 2 | I 've also adopted the philosophy that I must develop somebody to do my job better than I have done it . |
| 3 | Ca n't say I 've learnt much although I 've started it again and again in the last two years . |
| 4 | pot it in once I 've got me boots . |
| 5 | Wo n't take me long once I get going its just the getting going bit busy day tomorrow have n't we ? |
| 6 | Perhaps if I 'd entered him for the Champion Hurdle , he might have sold . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Nor have you wanted them from me , You 'd never have stayed around so long if I 'd pushed you about . ’ |
| 9 | So if I said show me something that 's arm 's length from your right shoulder north , or up , or west or some way , okay , or on a bearing of thirty seven degrees |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ So if I went to see her … ? ’ he probed . |
| 12 | But it is poisonous so if I start smelling it I 'm going have to switch the cupboard on to suck the fumes away . |
| 13 | I would save some money and then I would find a man to marry me , especially if I promised to bring him to London . |
| 14 | 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 … |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ I only popped in because I 'd heard you were in town . ’ |
| 17 | I did n't put an evaluation in because I wanted to discuss it orally with my adviser . |
| 18 | But the bank wo n't crash merely because I 've bought you a cup of tea and a few Carnival cakes . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I was actually satisfied with that , if only because I 'd resigned myself to the fact that I 'd never be thin , ’ she admits . |
| 20 | No , nobody 's ever asked me , but I did say yes , but only because I want to believe it , I do n't care if the rest of you do n't , but I think its very important that you , you 've got the body that your born with and I think its very important just to go on with it and make the best of it . |
| 21 | I put this down only because I have heard her daughter 's friends call her ‘ mannish ’ , and her own generation ‘ monstrous ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ Sit down because I need to tell you something . ’ |
| 23 | I never said much because I wanted to keep my options open . |
| 24 | I know you can do better because I 've heard you do it . ’ |
| 25 | How long since I 've seen it loose ? |
| 26 | They 've been closing down since I 've known them |
| 27 | 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 ? |
| 28 | ‘ I wo n't look in before I go to see your Uncle Walter in the morning . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | It was not very long before I came to see it as simply one fad among others . |