Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [adv] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I 've never I 've not met this element before it 's rather interesting . |
| 2 | Believe me , it wo n't happen — although I understand why you think it might . |
| 3 | Although I have Well I 've come through two wars and I remember the relief of Mathaking but I 'd sooner that I 've was born when I was . |
| 4 | ‘ Do you know , Father , it was n't until Whitton was dead that I realised how he had held us in his evil thrall . ’ |
| 5 | Yet it was then that I knew why I had come , for just distinguishable to me against the background of reciting voices , I heard my own voice . |
| 6 | The wind was high when I knocked at her door , and I heard a voice from within that I knew not what to make of , though it sounded like the lullaby of a Mother to her Baby . |
| 7 | Edward knew he was being pampered and , in his letters to Helen about his friendship with Gwili 's sister , he confessed that ‘ in fact it was partly you that I saw when I held her : I hope I shall never forget her ; then I shall feel that it is possible to love another even though I am all and ever yours , little one . |
| 8 | Yeah over that I mean sometimes you want to sit quiet and you can not can you ? |
| 9 | The first thing that I noticed when I arrived in the dusty Managua airport , besides the tanks parked in the landing field , was an enormous poster of an unmistakable Daniel Ortega , clad in blue jeans and a cowboy shirt , holding an infant with an earring . |
| 10 | think I mind says that I ask where you going now , going now or , well he 's not been here . |
| 11 | ‘ No , ’ said Aline , suddenly serious , ‘ it is only that the step from perfectly ordinary things into the miraculous seems to me so small , almost accidental , that I wonder why it astonishes you at all , or why you trouble to reason about it . |
| 12 | Can I just say then that I think either it 's got to be blocked completely so they ca n't jump over the bridge , or it 's got to be unblocked . |
| 13 | If we can learn to be programmers _ indeed we already are — but if we can learn to instruct the computer , then we 'll retain our dignity and our responsibility in matters rather than really abdicating it in ways that I do n't myself favour . |
| 14 | No oh more sadness there 's one thing that I do n't I searched the whole world for someone like you . |
| 15 | Erm I mean if you 're if you feel that I do n't I do n't think you 'd have any problem doing this it 's your it 's your it 's the |
| 16 | that I did n't I brought the rest for Laddy . |
| 17 | It was n't until I was much older still that I found out she 'd committed suicide . ’ |
| 18 | That I believe now it 's run by the ladies that took over some while ago . |
| 19 | Ridging and patching were the first jobs that I tackled once it became apparent that I was neither going to find another job nor be content to remain a labourer . |
| 20 | I realise that I have little I need to hide . |
| 21 | I have gone much further than I intended when I set out on this report and am already beginning to regret the substantial breach in normal departmental procedures which this has involved . |
| 22 | Well I , he lived at Stowmarket for years but then I heard not so long ago that they had moved to Ipswich but where I do n't know but they must be , whether he 's than I have now I do n't know either . |
| 23 | Suppose that it is known that a financial expert reaches the ‘ right ’ decision ( whatever that may be ) in 20% more cases than I do when I do not rely on his advice . |
| 24 | I 've been in love and fallen out of love so I know how it feels to have been divorced without the formalities . ’ |
| 25 | I shall think of you at Christmas , the more so as my own father died one Christmas Eve , and Richard 's wife in the week before Christmas , so I know how it feels to have sadness at that time . |
| 26 | I says probably Monday so I thought well I give it time any way in case you get in |
| 27 | And I said , well I 'm gon na give him a ring after tea and then I , we said oh well pras , and Sue will be home tonight so I said well we had n't better ring them ! |
| 28 | I was still terrified , but even more frightened of my aunt , so I worked out something to say in advance and blurted it out . |
| 29 | Once I got home I translated the idea into a pressed flower design . |
| 30 | My tutor was a delightful stern lady , and I remember when I had written about John 's gospel , the epistles of John , and the book of Revelation , she looked at me over the top of her spectacles and announced ‘ Young man , you have assumed that because these books have all been attributed to a man named John , that they are all by the same person , who was also an apostle . |