Example sentences of "[conj] [subord] i got [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Well , it 's , it 's simple that if I got up at half past six , and took him up a cup of tea at quarter too seven , and when he was around at seven o'clock , I was grilling bacon and I was frying eggs , and I hope , I do n't know whether perhaps it 's my cold , but , I , I just used to feel terribly unwell after he 'd gone , for about two hours and my legs were so wobbly , I was sitting down on the sofa , I may go back yet to cooking him breakfast if I feel like it , but , the , I mean if I can say to these chaps that , there are times when I do n't feel like doing things , well , I reckon Dave that they are so glad to be in that house with the central heating , with the twenty four hour er , er a day water , and the comfort , there not going to argue .
2 I pictured doing an impossible thing — I thought that if I got too close to coming , I could somehow angle my leg and contort it so that I caught hold of my cock in my bent knee and squeezed it like a nut in a nutcracker until it stopped wanting to come . ’
3 In fact , I told him that when I got back from this holiday he must come round and have a meal .
4 I packed and repacked many times ( before I left and after I got there ) .
5 I looked out of the window and it was the back garden of Dr Jane 's house , and when Mrs Pitt came up to serve me and I complained Dr Jane laughed , and it was really Dr Jane all the time and the whole place was horrible and dark and dirty and when I got outside to follow my friends the ones who were usually in the dream there were n't any people and we were in a sort of studio and the village and the inn it was so obvious now I felt a fool for going in and sitting down and expecting to be served was the crudest sort of cardboard stage set like a model for a child 's history lesson and the colours were horrible and it smelt of a sort of horrible glue and — —
6 But I must have felt the need for some support , because I found I 'd grabbed hold of one of my hammers — a geologist is always armed with a hammer — and when I got through to the back of the house he was there already , at the kitchen window . ’
7 And when I got through I knew immediately by the tone of her voice that she was , there was something wrong .
8 anyhow that made me feel there was no future in Plymouth for that , so this opportunity came , I came and when I got here they did n't carry any sergeants so I would of had to move again if I wanted promotion , which I was n't prepared to do for this , mainly for his education , unfortunately the
9 10 October , 1903 RAYMOND ASQUITH writes to Lady Manners from Aberdeenshire : ‘ We had a storm yesterday and went out to watch the waves : I ventured too far out onto a rock and was knocked flat on my face against a granite floor by one of the biggest rollers ever seen on this coast : I never felt such a blow ; luckily I fell in a crevice and was n't washed away ; but I was stunned for a few seconds , and when I got up my face and knee were streaming with blood .
10 Dear old Joe seemed just the same , but as I got better , he began to remember I was a gentleman , and call me sir again , and when I got up one morning , I discovered he had gone .
11 I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway .
12 When I looked then at first I could n't see , it was all — you know — black like inside my eyes , but I knew they were open and I could hear the kids yelling — and when I got up he was lying on the sofa , snoring — he must 've just dropped me and let me where I lie- ’ She stopped and Clare sat quietly waiting .
13 and I thought , ooh , any way , I went to sleep again and when I got up
14 We did not stop , and when I got home to Banbury it was to hear that my mother had died that day in Cardiff .
15 And when I got home , poor ma was dead and I was the one on me own !
16 If I could n't produce a marriage date , and Nigel could n't officially be registered dead without it , perhaps he was n't , because legally he could n't be , and when I got home I 'd find …
17 I paid for three plants ( £4 ) and when I got home , cleaned them and put them in two of my tanks .
18 I can remember waiting some minutes before walking through the house , knowing that there must be proof of burglary at the back door , and when I got there in an uncomprehending state , lo and behold the kitchen door was broken right down !
19 It 's this really creepy area , a dead-end road in a red-light district , and when I got there I discovered I did n't have my key and he was n't in , so I was locked out .
20 I jogged , sprinted towards my inanimate friend and when I got there I was so relieved I wanted to cry .
21 And when I got there I stayed there , it was the safest place to be .
22 There was a bobby on the beat facing me , waiting for me to come to him , and when I got there , the lads are still sitting there .
23 I was some way behind , it was misty , and when I got there I could n't see him .
24 And when I got back I had ants in my pants ,
25 ‘ I went off to get another one and when I got back to the phone she said ‘ have you got it ? ’ and I thought she meant the new biro , so I said yes and she said goodbye and hung up . ’
26 By this time it was approaching midnight and when I got back to camp and rang Bomber Command the duty officer was most reluctant to put me through to " Bomber " Harris .
27 And when I got back for the last few weeks Mortimer had left … ’
28 ‘ The meeting went on longer than I expected , and when I got back to the car there was a ticket on it .
29 Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed .
30 I said we 'd better go home and check and so we drove down to and as I got there , so the bus comes up , so it looked pretty but I thought well I 'd better check so I followed it back up and nobody got off it and
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