Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [conj] i [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another passer-by , a 21-year-old salesman , said : ‘ I only voted because I want to get married and I do n't want any problems . ’ |
| 2 | I only wondered because I 've got to go out later , I need to get somebody else to come in and , and be here but if I think it 's only going to be about that . |
| 3 | I finally realized that I 've got to live with that . |
| 4 | ‘ As the full-time mother of pre-school twins , I just thought that I had to put up with Sam 's barely concealed fling with a neighbour , ’ says Tina . |
| 5 | I could walk as fast as I ever did but I tended to roll my shoulders and turn my three-toed foot in as I did so . |
| 6 | I believe it is the most powerful poem he ever wrote and I want to analyse the way in which he maintains the clenched fist of resistant energy through four rhyming quatrains . |
| 7 | ‘ I always said that I had to put my medical career before my rugby , but the new job will not force me to retire because my colleagues are so supportive and helpful . ’ |
| 8 | I later realized that I had posed during a crucial period , and the tiny bronzes that resulted ( for that size prevailed ) continue daily to touch me . |
| 9 | However , shortly before the List 's publication , I received a visit from Harold Evans , then the editor of the Sunday Times , who came to breakfast and rather slyly asked if I had seen it ; to which I replied that I had not seen it and knew nothing of its contents . |
| 10 | ‘ But the day I wrote this song I honestly believed that I did love everyone ! ’ insists Paul , chirpily . |
| 11 | He adds : ‘ I also felt that I wanted to give the love that I felt for her in the way she needs love to be given . ’ |
| 12 | And I also thought that I had conquered that Greek half of me . |
| 13 | But if if a lot of schools opted out could you imagine that there might be one school that was famed for its computer excellence , and another school famed for its musical excellence , and you might have different specialist kinds of schools , not quite as dramatically delineated as I have suggested , but that would be the balance of interest in these different schools and would that be healthy ? |
| 14 | Can you believe it , I almost forgot that I had left it there ? ’ |
| 15 | He then fortunately disappeared and I proceeded to put my bet on the horse , which I am happy to say romped home at forty to one . |
| 16 | I do n't think she knew the crochet lady and I 'm sure neither knew that I had perfected the art of correcting typescript undetectably ! |
| 17 | The King could not persuade me , and unfortunately he never forgot that I had refused to do what he wanted . |
| 18 | I seriously felt that I had lost my ‘ commercial sense ’ that I had before , and that I would never remember the intricacies of the High Court Rules , how to draft Court Pleadings or even how to write a sensible letter . |