Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] i [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do feel that this is necessary because we are allocating or just allocating our proposed budget er a substantial amount of extra resources through the rights of way which I am thoroughly in favour of but I do think we need to know how that money is going to be used and which of the items which are to appear in the report are going to be covered by that money and which is still going to need to be addressed next year when we have to book in time for it for next year . |
| 2 | It was nice , people were so kind , offering encouragement and congratulations for what had been achieved ; I almost felt as if I had done it all . |
| 3 | She nodded again , as if I had answered her . |
| 4 | He laughed softly , with pleasure , as if I had fed him the right cue . |
| 5 | There was a silence , as if I had asked him a very profound question . |
| 6 | The events of the week-end seemed to recede , to become locked away , as if I had dreamt them ; and yet as I walked there came the strangest feeling , compounded of the early hour , the absolute solitude , and what had happened , of having entered a myth ; a knowledge of what it was like physically , moment by moment , to have been young and ancient , a Ulysses on his way to meet Circe , a Theseus on his journey to Crete , an Oedipus still searching for his destiny . |
| 7 | I felt awful , as if I had hurt him . |
| 8 | The idea struck him as somehow absurd , as if I had told him I did n't have a head or a heart . |
| 9 | ‘ Cretin ’ , he glared at me as if I 'd said it . |
| 10 | ‘ Tod Richardson , ’ I repeat , speaking flatly , nodding to Vinnie Dirkin as if I 'd guessed it all the while . |
| 11 | I tried to look as if this was perfectly normal , as if I 'd asked him to make the entry for me . |
| 12 | Whenever I smiled , he smiled back happily as if I 'd given him something . |
| 13 | Patterson 's eyes flickered as if I 'd given him a straw to grasp , but I pressed on . |
| 14 | I think that I was also over-confident when going into that river as if I 'd done it all before and was some sort of expert . |
| 15 | I felt as if I 'd handed him a loaded shotgun and said shoot . ’ |
| 16 | ( He gawped at me as if I 'd told him to swim the Atlantic . ) |
| 17 | I just said it as if I 'd known it all along . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's ridiculous , I know , but I feel as if I should know her , as if I 've seen her before somewhere . ’ |
| 19 | Oh I never caught it , right enough , but I feel as if I 've caught it now . |
| 20 | ‘ You are treating this as if I have accused you of some crime . |
| 21 | I feel as if I want to it hurts and I feel as if I want to move it . |
| 22 | Just see how you 've walked into this house without a thought for if I wished to use it . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ He had a terrible problem which he could n't talk about but I want to sort it out for him . ’ |
| 24 | Okay , well there 's more technical detail I could go into but I think y'know I 'm not sure how how useful it is to you . |
| 25 | now if I want to go down to the sea front well I 'll shall get a taxi and , and sha n't be worrying where me next meals coming from because I 've saved it , so , so that 's , that 's no worry , I was saying to Arthur if we went to Butlins well it would take all we had , because it , we could n't go to Butlins under three hundred pounds for two of us , we could n't go anywhere else , if we go to Blackpool , our , our said to , to , to dad , I , I would like to pop to , er I do n't think we will do because , er , the hassle for your dad , but er , I 'd like to go and see aunty Annie , but I do n't want to go to Nelson to do it |
| 26 | Based on that I have to give it to Mel cos he could also bend the ball around the wall to score — I never saw Lorimer do that ( he did nt have to ! ) . |
| 27 | You marked an appeal to the Court of Session in the above case on and I write to inform you of the necessary steps you should now take . |
| 28 | Yes , yes , yeah , but they did have civilians working there but I do n't know where they used to ferry the bombs out to but I do believe they used to carry detonators and everything down there you know . |
| 29 | If my list of cons against Alfieri seems great , it does not mean I dislike everything he does for as I 've said he plays the important role of introduction and conclusion which I like especially and count as a clever idea on the part of Miller . |