Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [conj] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never ever had half as much wage as I really should 've had and I say to that 's never bothered me . |
| 2 | Er he attended to me and I should n't have done but I looked at my notes at th bottom of the bed one day and it said , Interference denied . |
| 3 | I felt hotter than I need have done as I thought of the man who fed the dough on long , long shovels into that blazing hole . |
| 4 | Happiness , I knew , was not something she thought much of as an end : it was as if she had said , I 'm glad you do n't mind being poor , and , although when I replied to her , it was only to tell her about the baby , Thomas , and how he had put on five pounds and had cut his first tooth , I brooded over what I might have said while I stood at the sink or pushed the pram , making great , windy speeches in my mind , venting on my absent aunt the curious , unreasonable anger that seemed to rise up before me like a dark pit , bottomless and frightening . |
| 5 | he must have felt as I felt in that empty place . |
| 6 | I finished by playing Isabella in a production of Women Beware Women in a 1950 's style which may have helped when I came to my Ophelia , which was loosely based on a Princess Di concept . |
| 7 | You should have waited until I returned to your mother 's house . ’ |