Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [adv] [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.

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1 If I could get away somewhere , away from Glesca , somewhere quiet where I did n't know anyone , I 'd be able to get a job and settle down , no bother .
2 Thing is I have n't got that much work this week , or I 've just got lots of little things to do but nothing major , I have n't got any big essays I 've just got lots of , you know , translations and
3 I 'm a cocaine addict and I need something , 'cause I 've not had none for so many hours now .
4 Erm what I 'm doing basically is er putting on as many exhibitions as I can using the centre 's name and making sure that I 've got a good amount of my work in there , although I do n't push anybody else out .
5 I feel so glad that I 've finally found something that works and am not confined to a life of bingeing/vomiting , etc .
6 It 's just that I 've never met anyone as nice as you talk .
7 So I can honestly say that I 've never known anyone who 's ever played for Leeds .
8 So I can honestly say that I 've never known anyone who 's ever played for Leeds .
9 ‘ Not that I 've personally got anything against your legs . ’
10 I came home quite convinced that I 'd never met anyone since that I had had the same feeling for .
11 I did not expect another career , since I felt that I had already had one , but in the event I found not only that , but a fascinating path through life that my original naval calling could not possibly have produced .
12 I could feel him right outside , but it bothered me that I had n't done anything .
13 I told her what she expected to hear — that I had not done anything much .
14 No , I think that I had better take one from the Scottish National party .
15 I felt that I had never seen anyone so old .
16 I said that I had never heard anything more extraordinary .
17 But if , say , they use £ 10-worth of it right away , £10-worth three weeks later , and save the final £10-worth until they 've paid off the check ‘ so that I do n't owe anyone ’ , the true rate of interest works out at about 400 per cent .
18 erm I , I agree with Ann , not about the government , but I agree that I do n't think anything very obvious will have changed in a year erm but I do n't think it depends on the government .
19 I do n't intend to discuss the housing , whether seven hundred acres , sorry seven l land for seven hundred houses is owned by the City of York , that 's not part of our case one way or the other , but we have offered you a distribution of the Greater York provision figure between the districts , because from Barton Willmore 's very extensive experience of participation in local plan work up and down the country , I think we share the view that er City of York have , that Ryedale have , my colleagues to the left and right on this side of the table have , that there does need to be a distribution , otherwise there will be at best confusion as to whether local plans comply with the structure plan , and at worst a game of of pass the parcel and everybody will be conforming , but nobody will actually be possibly meeting the figures , and that is the situation that I do n't think anybody would wish to see as a result of er the outcome of of alteration number three , I mean I do n't know how the County Council would would really be able to say whether they thought a local plan conformed to the structure plan , without knowing what that distribution was , perhaps in some bottom draw manner which is not now the approved way of going about these things , so that I think there does need to be a distribution for the proper planning of York , and before coming on to our to explain our figures a little bit , I should also say , perhaps in in response to remarks Mr Thomas made earlier on about the general character of the York area and the need to protect that , that that course is precisely what the greenbelt is for , and what it does , it is n't necessary to extend that concept across the whole of the vale of York , and therefore to seek to er discount migration outside the greenbelt .
20 Yeah well b well what I 'm trying to say and I ca n't emphasise it too strongly is that I do n't want anybody going round like writing another stupid letter to somebody saying that erm you know the reason we 're inundated that it has n't been advertised properly cos I tell you what it 'll come back right in our faces cos it 's our bloody fault Well that 's right well we know that I mean I told them all I told them all quite clearly when I was up in Glasgow that they 'd be quiet for at least a month because p it 'll take time to filter through .
21 ‘ Not a bit , it 's just that I do n't tell anything , you see , and the Community likes that , they feel I 'm part of them .
22 Please , above all , remember that I do n't know everything ( though I 'm working on it ! ) — I may have to tell you I ca n't help you rather than pretending otherwise and confusing you .
23 ‘ What you ca n't accept is that I accept that I do n't know anything .
24 And it 's not true that I do n't get anything out of it when I see him .
25 I have this urge to snow you my childhood stamp collection , just that I do n't have one .
26 Apart from that I do not know anything about it .
27 Anybody that could read Dispatches and believe that I did n't suffer anything , I do n't know what they 're reading .
28 No he said , I ah that was the one immature thing that I did n't want anyone to say
29 ‘ I swear to you that I did n't know anything about it … neither can my sister know , or she would n't have gone with Garry . ’
30 And er Hannah 's going we started off the conversation where was the perviest you 've ever had one I mean , knowing that I did n't have one , ever had one before and that was Mark , feeble attempt that lasted about ten minutes
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