Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] i [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've written you poems better than I ever dreamed I could write … ’ |
| 2 | So much so that I deliberately avoided anything outside it which might affect my emotions or disturb my thoughts . |
| 3 | There was a momentary hesitation , so that I half expected him to say she was n't there . |
| 4 | More came welling and flooding under the door , so that I suddenly found it all about my ankles . |
| 5 | Better if I just end your scenario right here and now . ’ |
| 6 | You walked in and I just followed you . ’ |
| 7 | And once I nearly got my head flattened , cos I sent up the wrong thing and bang he sent it down and I just got my head out of there in time . |
| 8 | It 's only cos I fucking told him about it the other night . |
| 9 | Their one hundred and fifty ton heavy life crane would have coped with that job easily enough but I hastily declined his offer which , apart from any other consideration would have placed me at a slight disadvantage . |
| 10 | eight o'clock this morning , who the hell that was from , I do n't know , I was out the washing line I come flying in but I never got it , and nobody 's rung . |
| 11 | My hon. Friend 's remarks about a single currency alarm me greatly because I much admire his intellect , not to mention the fluency of his speech . |
| 12 | Carling said : ‘ I admired Gerber as one of the world 's great centres long before I ever dreamed I would pull on an England shirt . |
| 13 | Er so whether I unconsciously got it from there , I , I do n't really know , I may have done . |
| 14 | ‘ I ought to have found this out before , especially as I usually know everything that goes on in this village , but they 've managed to keep it secret . |
| 15 | The danger of approaching whole group work by letting children first improvise in small groups and then presenting them with an issue which you hope will give them a focus is that they remain more interested in what 's going on in their group than in the supposedly unifying issue : " Why should I be interested in the corner shop being knocked down when I never use it , and anyway we 've just been burgled ? ! " |
| 16 | It was n't as though either of these men had led me to expect anything , gave me anything to hope for , it 's just that I really liked them , particularly the one I encountered later on . |
| 17 | It was just that I never expected it to happen to me . ’ |
| 18 | Well no it 's not that I just think it 's the I do n't know you can see through it more . |
| 19 | Not that I really expected them to ; I could hardly expect the Umpire to side with me so soon . |
| 20 | He frequents a seedy restaurant — ‘ You see this wretched tavern I spend all my time in , and I enjoy it , or rather it 's not that I really enjoy it , but one must have somewhere to perch ’ : this is the form which the Dostoevsky no-home takes with him , likewise the transpersonal motif first voiced by Marmeladov in this novel , that a man must have somewhere to go . |
| 21 | Not that I ever took them myself , because auction rings are a bit rough and noisy — places for men , really — so a kind neighbour would attend to things for me , such as arranging transport and attending the sale . |
| 22 | Not that I ever believed her — not for a moment . |
| 23 | Night porter , Q is lifts to all floor , and S is swimming pool and I know there 's a swimming pool because not that I ever used it , but ma it , it was when I booked Francis . |
| 24 | So she went away and I never pressurised her and I told the other girls not to ask questions or anything , just to leave her . |
| 25 | At the same time , I would warn Obair * , the same as I would warn anybody setting up a scheme , to make sure that the scheme is properly run , to make sure that the scheme is n't used to take jobs away from either the domestics , the home helps or any other jobs in the health service — make sure that abuse is taken away and I certainly wish them luck in the future and I thank you for inviting me here to speak . |
| 26 | No it 's not cos I just put it upstairs ! |
| 27 | On Ferry Road , within sight of Fettes School 's preposterous spire and only minutes from the police HQ , I have the first cigarette of the day , not because I really want it , just to feel bad . |
| 28 | Just when I never had my thing . |
| 29 | ‘ It was good quality stuff , good to work on and I gradually worked my way up to being one of the house engineers and it took off from there . ’ |
| 30 | I mean all right and I just ticked him off . |