Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] i [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now going back to this handicraft , although I said I really did n't want to be committed to all the meetings , I 'm quite happy to carry on with the handicraft , providing you do n't expect me to turn up at every meeting . |
| 2 | Although I knew I probably should n't , I could n't help looking as he rummaged through the marvellous things in the cupboard . |
| 3 | The doctors say he might go off sudden-like , so I thought I better warn you . ’ |
| 4 | Then one day I had to go to the Post Office for something — one of them forms I daresay — so I thought I better wrap up , I better take care , you 're very vulnerable after a long illness you know , and I put my old long mack on and one of the kids ' mack hats and Wellingtons and I went out in the rain , feeling , in a depressed sort of way , ‘ Well , if I get ill again , what can I do ? |
| 5 | If I decorate I always buy the right amount of paint |
| 6 | I do n't Stephen and if I did I definitely would lend it to you . |
| 7 | Well I planned a little bit but even if I plan I still ca n't write it . |
| 8 | We lived on chunks of fighting cock , pork and water-buffalo boiled in bamboo tubes until I thought I never wanted to eat meat again . |
| 9 | I say , like I say I just just red er paint summat like , these are white these and just go down on the red and just up there and just up here , just get your displays |
| 10 | Cos I mean I all whenever I 'm going travelling into into York and they 've changed that billboard I always look at it . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 13 | I was not at all afraid , because I knew I still had the power to calm him . |
| 14 | Before I start I actually spend most of my time writing a behavioural measurable etcetera objective . |
| 15 | When I go I usually pay er to go round the back er which in some circuses you can do and only two weeks ago |
| 16 | But greater than they is a sort of compulsion which comes on me , so that when I invent I scarcely know what I am inventing . |
| 17 | Doing it for her when I know I already know it . |
| 18 | gave me an unofficial interview at his cottage , but I offended him when I said I really wanted to study French ! |
| 19 | When I draw I always think of someone like G.P. at my shoulder . |
| 20 | The general manager of LUFC is called Alan Roberts , but as I said I only heard half the story . |
| 21 | Or I can stay , as I know I probably will . |
| 22 | If I became part of his fantasy landscape a certain amount of security , great pleasure even , was possible , at the cost of feeling split and unknowable afterwards and unsure whether I as I felt I really was had experienced anything . |
| 23 | Just just to see cos as I say I just ca n't believe it . |
| 24 | Yeah but as I say I just want to make it clear to people that it 's er it 's a bit of both and I think a bit of bit of heated argument was |
| 25 | I 'm not encouraging it because as I say I really , present time I ca n't see that it 's going to be of any assistance to me to have the opinion of solicitors from er from any part really , from the defendant or or someone else . |
| 26 | But er maybe once or twice , as I say I usually go out with my kids , and they do n't usually stop you . |
| 27 | I appreciate that the outcome will make no difference to my current computer display as I believe I only have a monitor capable of standard VGA display . |
| 28 | Elizabeth 's friend Maud must have said something of this sort , for I find I once wrote to her : ‘ Maud was right , I think . |