Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [verb] [adv] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it got , in the end , actually , if I was , if I had to do something that was urgent or I had to go somewhere I used to have to say to her something like , you know , erm oh I better get on , I got a lot to do this morning , or I 'm goi I 've to be shopping and be back in time to cook Jim 's dinner or something like that cos he 's starting , oh I 've got ta have his dinner ready at twelve before he goes to work and if I really was pushed otherwise she would have come in every day . |
| 2 | Oh , Shelley , Clive was a nice enough person and he was always good to me , but he was n't right for me , and although I appeared to live happily I used to long for things to be as they were between Felipe and me . |
| 3 | But , you know , if , if , if I 'd have put , when we , when we started to talk at the beginning of this term we had at the beginning a general discussion about what are we gon na put in land reform , if I 'd have come along to s to you and I 'd said well I think we should do this |
| 4 | And it was rough going , and I had to watch my head and I had to watch where I was putting my feet . |
| 5 | From outside , the church looked very old , and deserted , and I began to wonder why I had come ; and I must have been a little late , because in the perfect stillness within , the members of the congregation already knelt — like statues , some caught in a swath of rainbow light where the rising sun shone through a stained-glass window , splashing the bowed heads and bent shoulders with crimson , royal blue , emerald and gold . |
| 6 | I was now very weak from lack of food , and I began to wonder why I should struggle to stay alive , when I did not want to live . |
| 7 | make do with this I thought , and then he 's and I did did n't I ? he 'd gone along and |
| 8 | It was a moving song , and I could see people with tears in their eyes , but I kept wondering why I could n't feel anything . |
| 9 | I had some woodwork to finish off indoors and after I 'd glued up I had some light sanding to do . |
| 10 | ‘ After I 'd cooled down I knew I was being irrational . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ When I managed to get upright I saw him cocking the gun again , thought he was going to shoot me again and moved towards him to defend myself . ’ |
| 12 | When I came to train properly I was already aware of the professional background . |
| 13 | Also , when I went to stand up I was so whoozy that I just could n't keep my balance , so I slumped back down again . |
| 14 | and whe when I went to get up I was fine . |
| 15 | I never understood until I came to Taipei and we met again , when I started to realise why I 'd always reacted so strongly to you . |
| 16 | Yeah , erm when I started digging up I was smaller than the fork , the fork was , yes ! |
| 17 | ‘ Then when I started travelling seriously I used to go and be nice to my bank manager , which was n't so easy . ’ |
| 18 | I could n't pick the fish up because they were slippery and eluded my grasp , and when I tried to stand up I 'd slip back again amongst the icy cold debris . |
| 19 | But when I did find out I was profoundly relieved to know that all these troubling fantasies which had been playing twice nightly in my head were , in fact , shared by others . |