Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [conj] i [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where has tha' been since I saw thee ? |
| 2 | Where has tha' been since I saw thee ? |
| 3 | ‘ The greatest irony is that I thought he could help me in my research on rape , ’ she says . |
| 4 | Well what really set my mind was when I lost my sister and my brother . |
| 5 | Why else should I still be yearning after a man whom I knew to be a murderer while shrinking from the innocent Syl whose only crime was that I found him unattractive ? |
| 6 | I think that the real reason that I wanted to do Total recall was that I knew it might make me famous which then might help me get better parts . |
| 7 | The other factor against a return was that I reckoned it only a matter of time before they stopped being DINKS ( double income , no kids ) and became WHANnies ( ‘ We have a Nanny ’ ) . |
| 8 | A worrying thing at the moment is as I said we 're in close contact with is that the Malaysian Government is sending representatives over to visit the European Community Ministers in May , to try and say that there 's absolutely nothing wrong with what 's going on in their country with the logging , and they 're saying that people like Friends of the Earth are calling for a ban on timber , not because they care about sustained yield , but because we want to be able to sell our own wood , and this is to depress their trade . |
| 9 | The difference is that I knew what I wanted and he did not . |
| 10 | ‘ The truth is that I fought what I felt for you for as long as I could , and even after we made love I told myself that I wanted you , desperately , but that you meant nothing more to me than an object of desire . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The reason I chose to come here for a job was because I thought I had relations here . |
| 12 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 13 | The three and a half inch is as I said it 's approximately |
| 14 | ‘ I always tried to make Mojo more organised , ’ she says , ‘ but all that ended up happening was that I kept his diary and sent letters off for him . |
| 15 | Life is as I thought it was ; shall we now celebrate this disappointment ? |
| 16 | You can break it but the thing is that I warned her , er , you know , as long as they get through to her hold on that that 's very nicely set up if she twiddles her |
| 17 | The most frightening thing was that I thought it would never stop . |
| 18 | ‘ You know , the worst thing was that I missed it . ’ |
| 19 | One thing I realised about my renewal of my faith is that I had nothing to do with it ! |
| 20 | my pain is that I knew you |
| 21 | My problem , if you can call it that , at the time was that I thought I had all the natural talent in the world and did n't need to train . |
| 22 | I did n't realise how clear her speech was until I heard it on the tape . |