Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That I lived here for many years as a child , that — " |
| 2 | The wife and daughter were usually silent , but Service and I made up for that . |
| 3 | Kathleen and I went off for some lunch and we then went to have a look at the castle . |
| 4 | That summer the maternal grandmother 's gift of a Ramadan feast was brought without question to the family majlis , and the young Sheikh , his friends and I sat together for those last painful moments of the first day of Ramadan . |
| 5 | Well I do n't know , there are such good Japanese coupes now , you know you see these lovely Toyotas and Nissans that they do the sort of two plus two and they 're really lovely cars and but if I change c car this next year I 'll still have to have four seater or , you know , plenty of room in the boot so I can pick you up from Haileybury and all that crap , but if I hung on for another two years I could then get something I actually wanted , you know . |
| 6 | I know he asked me to stay but I wanted more for some reason . ’ |
| 7 | But latterly I 've been here very little ; in fact it must be at least fifteen years since I stayed here for any length of time … |
| 8 | Well it 'd probably be the June or July before I went in for this exam , which they did n't hold very frequently and er then I had to pass this exam and that I could leave school in the August , Bank Holiday . |