Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [conj] i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ When I am in the car I am competing professionally and I commit myself to the job . |
2 | not with squirrels , no er I do n't think so but I mean you , you might be able to do something with a vole , or something like that and trap them but I 'm just wondering Stefan could it also be a fox ? |
3 | It was better than the other one , it might of been the seats but I do n't think so because I mean there was so much in this one |
4 | You 'll know better than I do what that means . ’ |
5 | yeah , aha , cos you have to concentrate constantly and I think it really is a lot of work involved in it |
6 | ‘ I say merely that I know nothing of your late wife . |
7 | I 'll let you know more if I hear owt . |
8 | It was only after we had left , and were returning home that I realised what a good feeling it was to have helped someone in pain . |
9 | He was the goalkeeper for Manchester United and I joked later that I threw him the bag of money and he dropped it ! |
10 | If I , if I get another species next year nesting , that has n't nested before and I know it 's because of the effort of putting in reeds , trees , whatever I 've put in there , we 're , we 're trying to get to nest here , if they nest that 'll be really , er that 'll be a great thing because er they feed on the apple erm I thought somebody said er who said there was a hundred a seventy five here er a week ago and that 'd be great to get them to nest , be really good . |
11 | My heart beat wildly and I licked my lips . |
12 | Erm Peter , North Yorkshire , I think it 's appropriately addressed there and I think there are so many elements of it that er I think you w you would end up with perhaps a very long explanatory section . |
13 | There was an old deckhouse off a ship and these old chaps used to meet there and I suppose they 'd be talking of old times — shipbuilding . |
14 | ‘ Every Brownie must stay exactly as I put her — on the ground . |
15 | I did n't think he 'd be cooking tonight cos I knew they were n't shutting the |
16 | I mean just cos I want I , just , just cos you want out of here , I 'm not gon na accept any old place |
17 | ‘ Well , we must look after the old folk , ’ he says fatuously and I notice he 's sweating . |
18 | The only grass that 's well cut is where people cut it themselves outside their own house but , in particular , erm , th I would like to see the supervision of the contract and that we do n't cough up the money unless the job 's done properly because I think we 're paying for a job that 's not being either done at all , or when it is being done it 's not being done well . |
19 | ‘ I knew that Alan liked the odd drink but it was n't until we were living together that I realised her was more or less an alcoholic , and violent with it . ’ |
20 | During the lead-up to my emergence as a fully-fledged lesbian , I suffered unspeakably as I steered myself through a minefield of heavily internalized Catholic dogma . |
21 | ‘ I have been around too long to take anything for granted so when I saw which way the wind was blowing I just buckled down and got on with playing . ’ |
22 | I should like to hear Rebecca 's version , but can only do so if I repair my rudeness and invite them here — ( Like the Queen , we never ask her back ) . |
23 | Cutting down on food , I was University missing whole meals , telling people I was training , I 'm a P E teacher so sport and the perfect body was very much up front , so the more weight I lost the better I was told I looked until it became totally out of control and I was eating an apple and black coffee a day and then vomiting so that I had nothing in me . |
24 | dropped Asdir off and she drove away and I saw her and the four children go , along to the house |
25 | Get a full one , get it does n't matter really and I get one that width out of |
26 | How can anything matter now that I have you ? ’ |
27 | We played magnificently and I thought we were the better side . ’ |
28 | I hate living here and I hate you . |
29 | ‘ Proctor played well when I brought him into the team . |
30 | you know , I mean they were so good when they came here but I mean they 've been shut in for months now ! |