Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [verb] [adv] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I allowed Thursday as my backstop in case I have n't got my eleven . |
| 2 | Shit I have n't got my shades . |
| 3 | ‘ Of course I do n't mind your inviting him . |
| 4 | Of course I did n't kill my father but I made sure that Katie was never , ever alone with him . |
| 5 | ‘ Of course I have n't changed my mind , ’ she said . |
| 6 | The dog refused to budge , so , instructing the two older girls to hold tight to the younger , I heaved up the 196lb of stubborn fur and staggered to the railing I went down to extricate my struggling son and carried him upwards followed by shrieking pleas of , ‘ Daddy , do n't leave us ’ and ‘ I want a carry ’ , from the frantic tadpole in charge of two red-faced little girls who were now starting to show signs of stain and filling tear-ducts . |
| 7 | The kind of lovemaking I 'd practically dedicated my life to experiencing . ’ |
| 8 | If your master 's away at the race meeting and anything happened to a horse I do n't carry my respons I do n't do it on my shoulders , I go and get a vet . |
| 9 | ‘ The front door 's a Banham lock I do n't fancy my chances with that but the kitchen door 's just an ordinary job and a couple of bolts . |
| 10 | I could n't make up my own mind whether to get him to lengthen or shorten and in consequence I did n't make his mind up to do either and we floundered over it untidily , his hooves rapping the wooden frames , my weight too far forward … a mess . |
| 11 | The next day I ventured out to see our new village , conscious that many curious eyes were on me . |
| 12 | As I drove into the guide dog training centre at Leamington Spa it took me back to the day I arrived there to start my apprenticeship as a guide dog mobility instructor . |
| 13 | That night I did not open my window to the usually sweet night air but kept it tight shut against the threatening darkness . |
| 14 | If I swim on my back I do n't do my front |
| 15 | Oh I should love one , ooh , so I thought , best not give him a bleeding mug I 'd best get my best china out , you know ? |
| 16 | 'No I do n't get my hair done , it 's not worth it' ) . |
| 17 | So , on the one hand I could n't pretend to myself that Meredith-Lee was n't justified in doing something to put things right , on the other hand I did n't want my comfortable life messed up . |
| 18 | ‘ But on the other hand I do n't want her upset either , and seeing him would be the one thing guaranteed to do just that . ’ |
| 19 | When trying to guess where someone went when I missed him at the airport I do not imagine his thoughts , I try to imagine his situation as someone like him would see it , and think ; if he tells me he has just learned he has cancer I may hear in imagination the doctor 's grave voice , but I do not imagine the fear , I feel the chill of it ; if I see him cut his finger I do not imagine the pain as something objective before my ‘ mind 's eye ’ , either I look on as though the knife were cutting through cheese or I incipiently wince . |
| 20 | As a feminist I did n't invert their bad habits by only talking to women — this book is about women and men , though it takes the standpoint of women as its reference point . |
| 21 | I think the fact that I was abroad at the time may have had something to do with it — having left the country I 'd also left my conscience behind . |
| 22 | ‘ And the first time we performed it was a screamer , Miss Greene — what doom … and the second time I had not learned my part , not at all , and they said , ‘ If you are going to corpse continually … ’ ’ |
| 23 | Then I injured my knee , and during the time I had off to get my knee better , I discovered that there was life outside the ballet . |
| 24 | It was the summer 1989 when I went down to the golf club with a friend and played around with him after that I borrowed his clubs quite regularly and practised eventually mum & Dad chipped in and I bought myself a set of clubs well to be exact I bought myself a bag of three iron and a putter during the next two years I had saved up and built up my set of clubs until I had a half set of irons and 2 woods during that time I had always left my clubs at the golf club to save me taking the clubs to the course every time I played . |
| 25 | The first time I did not pay his passage money . |
| 26 | During this time I tried hard to forget my feeling for him . |
| 27 | It 's a full-time job ; in fact I 've just spent my leave there simply to give them a break for a few days . ’ |
| 28 | No it was just it was just so you , I mean let's face it , er my father used to mend our shoes , repair our shoes , in fact I 've still got his hobbing iron now . |