Example sentences of "[adv] [noun sg] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd put on weight while I 'd been in bed , and the zip on my slacks would n't do up more than half-way . |
| 2 | It 's only rock'n'roll but I like it ! |
| 3 | She got a big enough fright when I said : ‘ Excuse me , but your wee laddie is filling your bag with apples that I 'm sure you 'll not be wanting . |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't be mad at her , though , she was only doing as I 'd asked . |
| 5 | No , it 's only wine that I want . |
| 6 | She was cursing poor old Reverend Marr up hill and down dale but I do n't reckon even grandma wanted him dead , ’ said the lad with relish . |
| 7 | Uncle was quite keen on listening to the nine o'clock news and I remember hearing Mr Churchill . |
| 8 | I thought that once , when I did my first removal because the boss was away , and I went to a house wh and they had more more mirrors in that house than I s ever seen since , and because I was only learning and I had n't been taught I put all the other furniture in and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors till at the end there was so much furniture in there was n't room to put the mirrors on the floor and I had to come back a second time to actually do that because I did n't dare put them anywhere else . |
| 9 | ‘ Then the argument got decidedly personal , ’ Charles added , ‘ so Dad and I beat a hasty retreat ! ’ |
| 10 | Today I had four baths to fill in time and I invented you . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's not just luck that I look OK , ’ she says . |
| 12 | ‘ And was it just coincidence that I get invited to the Flaxton dance , that I 'm seated next to him ? |
| 13 | It 's not in-fighting and I urge you to support both of these please . |
| 14 | It was just incompetence that I did n't get it done this week . |
| 15 | But it 's not exactly danger that I seem to feel about the place . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's not hindsight when I say there was something cold and sinister about him . |
| 17 | Anyway day after I says have you done it ? |
| 18 | ‘ It was exactly semi-retirement because I took all my gear down and demoed a good album 's worth of material . |
| 19 | Thank you for that , er it 's not , it 's not easy ground and I do appreciate with which it 's happening and the lack of sarcasm that is occurring . |
| 20 | Excuse me I 've got not exactly hay-fever but I think I 'm going to be sneezing for a few minutes . |
| 21 | I take out my sketch pad , but the results are not food and I consign it to the ancient lavatory and oblivion on the track . |
| 22 | This change in Pip 's attitude and behaviour and perhaps his realisation that he is not a true gentleman is his final change from contentment , to discontentment and snobbery to finally semi-contentment though I think he knows he can not be fully content with reaching some sort of conclusion with Estella as she still has his heart . |
| 23 | ‘ I watched them fishing him out yesterday afternoon and I thought then , ‘ If that 's where you 've ended up , my friend , I can make a good guess as to where you went in . ’ ’ |
| 24 | But I sat in yesterday afternoon and I felt sorry for the man 's daughter who 'd been given a hymn the service . |
| 25 | On top of that , the presence of these two will allow the full-backs more freedom and I expect to see Stuart Pearce getting forward in his old style . |
| 26 | the cu the music is totally shit but I love |
| 27 | I crossed the Thames at Tower Bridge and walked further south than I had ever been before , and when I arrived at the rival market I could n't believe my eyes . |
| 28 | It it goes further south than I thought it did . |
| 29 | Dr Sommerville , accompanied by a group of junior doctors ( the National Heart was considered a teaching hospital ) told me : ‘ I was looking at your case notes yesterday evening and I know exactly what the answer is — a transplant . ’ |
| 30 | In the recent cup tie at Stradey Park I was saddened to see their lack of commitment , but a recent big win at Newport has given them more confidence and I think that we should watch out for them next season . |