Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] i [vb past] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said I ca n't I 'm here on my own , he said get a cab and I 'll give you the money back , so anyway I rung Pauline 's husband up Steve and he said I 'll take you , I said to Steve I 've got ta get there for one o'clock cos I said I really do feel that if I do n't see him before he goes I ai n't gon na bloody see him , he was ever so good , he were here at twenty to one , got straight in the car put his foot down , went to the General and just as I got in the door Steve do n't worry about me parking , go , I 'll find you , just get in there , I ran through the bloody doors , ran up the stairs cos I knew |
| 2 | say anything about you like it 's only if I got nothing else to say really |
| 3 | Only cos I took you down there to the cafeteria . |
| 4 | Merely because I reminded him how unlikely he was to catch an heiress . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Only because I realised I never did get around to telling you that you are , without question , the most insolent , wilful , egocentric human being I 've ever met ! ’ |
| 6 | better since I swept you under |
| 7 | I had heard about the Dog Man before on my week-long journey from Kirk Yetholm towards Edale — travellers going north had told me as I journeyed south at first that the Dog Man was only three days ahead of me , then two days ahead of me , and then the final group of walkers had told me that it would n't be long before I caught him up . |
| 8 | Herta kept her head down as I helped her off with her coat . |
| 9 | So when I met him once I asked him ‘ Why do you do that ? ’ ; to which he replied , ‘ I could n't think of anything else . |
| 10 | It was not too big or cumbersome to take away so I packed it up in my stout old haversack and stepping out of the ruins of the boilerhouse , returned to the shed . |
| 11 | The ladder is broken ; it has rusted through because I left it out in the rain . |
| 12 | Just because I got you off seeing Herr Lettner does n't mean it wo n't happen again . |
| 13 | It was weeks ago , just before I threw him out . ’ |
| 14 | If the world was not as I perceived it then it was possible that I was not damned . |
| 15 | I 'd accept all that , just as I accepted her usually sharp-edged attitude to me during the nearly two years of our association . |
| 16 | Just as I said they just phoned , Kenny just phoned and said are you coming horseracing ? |
| 17 | Then , just when I had everything nicely rounded off what did this ungrateful creature of mine take it upon herself to do ? |
| 18 | It was a real drag to find them handcuffed behind my back just when I needed them most , I can tell you . |
| 19 | Just when I needed it most , too . ’ |
| 20 | I knew as soon as I wrote it down I 'd go off the boil . |
| 21 | Sure enough , as soon as I woke her up , Jean started yelling . |
| 22 | As soon as I picked it up , I knew it was them — the kidnappers . |
| 23 | They were retained in the fax modem 's memory and as soon as I plugged it in , tried to send them . |
| 24 | He was just about to walk off when I pulled him back on . |
| 25 | Not long after this , my boyfriend and I broke up because I liked somebody else . |
| 26 | None of my chat-up lines ever worked , probably because I learned them too early — I was heavily influenced by American television programmes of the '50s which we saw in Australia . |
| 27 | I mixed it up when I wrote it down If you find something in the text books looks about right and similar to that , use the text book version , I might have written it down wrong . |
| 28 | But , failing that , you know , if yo if you 're going in town anyway I can write the ticket out cos I got one here |
| 29 | It was my decision , mainly because I had nothing else to do . |
| 30 | Now , he does n't say anything about penis envy in , in putting that forward and I do n't know whether penis envy was in his mind at the time he wrote those words and even if I asked him today , he probably would n't admit it . |