Example sentences of "[adv] [that] i [verb] [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ But before I could say anything I discovered suddenly that I 'd meant nothing to you but an unimportant little romantic adventure , ’ he added bitterly . |
2 | I do n't want to do something just for the sake of it , I do n't really care about being on the Council , it 's just that I wanted to do something about those wretched caravans . |
3 | Not that I 've seen anyone . |
4 | One wrote that and then said , ‘ It 's not that I 've got anything against my husband , it 's just he 's pig ignorant . ’ ’ |
5 | Not that I 've got anything against them personally . |
6 | Not that I 've got anything against Sue 's family , mind . |
7 | Not that I 've got anything against babies . |
8 | Not that I 've got anything at all against them getting out and about a bit now , ’ he added hurriedly , not wanting another Grimma on his hands . |
9 | Not that I want to kill anybody now , but it is all for defence rather than offence , and it does make me feel a lot more secure . |
10 | Even when , halfway through the morning he broke out with , ‘ Well , there 's no need for you to keep on and on about the table , ’ I did not point out that I had said nothing , that it was he who was ‘ going on and on about it ’ inside himself . |
11 | ‘ So , now that I 've explained everything , do you think you 'll marry me ? ’ |
12 | I certainly would not like to do without my own sound card now that I 've had one for some time , and I 'm seriously considering changing it for a Laserwave Plus , purely because I find its configurability and standard of sound to be better than the one I already have . |
13 | With the er , erm , was it years before that I 've had something like forty or thirty five |
14 | ‘ Well , then , ’ he said smugly , ‘ it 's just as well that I have worked something out for you , is n't it ? |