Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [adv] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I like a pub where I do n't meet my customers . |
| 2 | Another pull for ten minutes or so brought me up on to the summit , where I sat down to have my lunch . |
| 3 | I 'm not going to let her slide out of it or I do n't get my scoop . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Or , ’ he demanded harshly , ‘ do you have someone other than me lined up to pay your mortgage ? ’ |
| 5 | The hardy annual mignonette ( Reseda odorata ) is always listed with scented plants , although I have rarely noticed its fragrance . |
| 6 | She stated : " Although I have not achieved my goal of becoming chief constable , … |
| 7 | And although I have since had my own shows in West End galleries in London , the excitement of being part of the Summer Exhibition has never worn thin . |
| 8 | Of course , I 'm always glad of an excuse to reprint rather than write , although I did n't intend my prose to be quite so timeless . |
| 9 | And although I did n't like my pig wife or my pig mother come to that — I was very fond of my pig father . |
| 10 | And I should imagine that the light paper 's the backing paper and that I 've already glued my work on the paper and my my picture is already glued just there . |
| 11 | that I 've already drawn your Lordships attention to say that erm the policy holders protection can be given effect to and er that er that er it does not have er the broad construction all encompassing construction that eighty five three is the only route that my learned friend has submitted |
| 12 | It can be a very hard game sometimes , but the most important thing for me is that I 've now got my mind right . |
| 13 | He 's always been surrounded by people who think everything else he does is marvellous , but one of the points of our relationship has been that I 've always criticised his work , and for me those double portraits of the Seventies came perilously close to Photo-Realism . ’ |
| 14 | It may seem that I 've never taken my title seriously , but below the skin I have great respect for it , and for this house too and the men who have gone before me who made it . |
| 15 | The woman was definitely shocked , and by the fact that I 've never bathed my child . |
| 16 | ‘ Though of course before that I 'd already done my bit : I was one of Our Lads , I was an Expeditionary , part of the Task Force that recaptured Maggie 's surrendered popularity . ’ |
| 17 | I know this sorried affair is wrong , that I end up breaking my daughter 's heart , or upsetting my son , son 's ha , but I do n't think I can give up Steve ? |
| 18 | I sent him a bundle of clippings that I thought amply documented my charge . |
| 19 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 20 | Now it seemed fortunate that I had n't ; just as it seemed , though still obscurely , fortunate that I had n't lost my head in other ways when I wrote to her . |
| 21 | So the first opportunity I had I left Bradley 's and went back to the Lock so it 'd been war direction , war service we asked and it counted as me service with the Lock , that I had n't interrupted me service being as I was directed so that 's how I say I had fifty years at the Lock . |
| 22 | Never mind that I had n't remembered my birthday either . |
| 23 | The first thought that came to me was that I had n't got my clean bloomers on . |
| 24 | I was confused and still worried that there might be horses and that I had not changed my bloomers which were wet from where I had fallen in the icy fish . |
| 25 | It had just crossed my mind that I had not had my boots off since the evening of the 4th June and it was now 8th June . |
| 26 | ‘ Indeed , but for my brother 's tears , his reproaches that I had not drawn my sword , I would have dismissed the whole affair as a nightmare . ’ |
| 27 | Did he know that she 'd revealed his habit of farting as he came , or that I had once worn his pyjamas while she blew me ? |
| 28 | The fact that I had never seen my aunt looking so elegant added to my impression that I was imagining this . |
| 29 | It has given me an insight into the way that I behave and that the way that I think definitely affects my actions . |
| 30 | I suppose I mean that I do n't think my husband would be a nature poet if he did n't live now , here , in England . |