Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] i [verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've also adopted the philosophy that I must develop somebody to do my job better than I have done it . |
| 2 | Ca n't say I 've learnt much although I 've started it again and again in the last two years . |
| 3 | He had n't slept in a bed like that before , yet there were all those advertisements for them on television , and they were on display in shop windows and in almost all the big stores in London so that I 'd imagined them in all the houses I could see from the bus . |
| 4 | Only that I 've heard it before . |
| 5 | ‘ Only that I 've seen them before . ’ |
| 6 | Perhaps if I 'd entered him for the Champion Hurdle , he might have sold . |
| 7 | ‘ Nor have you wanted them from me , You 'd never have stayed around so long if I 'd pushed you about . ’ |
| 8 | And if Oliver wants to see me — which might be a good idea if I can talk some sense into him — then I 'll only do so if I 've cleared it with Stuart first . |
| 9 | Or perhaps because I 've lulled her with bedtime stories embroidering our favourite theme : once upon a time there was a girl named Gittel , who had a curse called down upon her … |
| 10 | Perhaps because I have proven I am no mere parasite , and have helped her knock out one dazzling 1,500-word column for Outsider in record time . |
| 11 | But the bank wo n't crash merely because I 've bought you a cup of tea and a few Carnival cakes . ’ |
| 12 | I know you can do better because I 've heard you do it . ’ |
| 13 | How long since I 've seen it loose ? |
| 14 | A fortnight or so after I had dictated it in October 1971 , I had a telephone call from Harold Wilson to know whether I had read Wigg 's memoirs , and was I aware of the very personal attacks on him and Marcia Williams ? |
| 15 | Maureen said : ‘ I did n't think about them again until that psychic woman asked for them , but it was only after I had given them to her I realized they were n't his at all . |
| 16 | ’ She told it to them much as I 'd told her myself . |
| 17 | Sure to feel again soon that I 've botched it . |
| 18 | " Sooner than I 'd meant it to , " Sara said a little ruefully . |
| 19 | And I 'm not working next year anyway cos I 've done it for two years on the run and I 'm not doing it next year . |
| 20 | I think I can throw it away cos I 've proved it to myself that it work , the three of them . |
| 21 | I have n't done it easily but I 've done it and I 'm pleased . |
| 22 | ‘ He 'll stay away because I 've ordered him to stay away . |
| 23 | During painting , I often look at the picture through a mirror as it progresses , and sometimes even just after I 've drawn it , just to see if anything does n't quite look OK . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'd hate to lose you , so soon after I 've found you . ’ |
| 25 | One of the English teachers , Frank Almond , who was keen on filming , even videoed Dawn shortly after I 'd trained her to fly free . |
| 26 | One was my convict , and the other was the man who had run away when I had seen him near the shelter . |
| 27 | The gilded chair by the dressing-table was strewn with clothing , just as I had seen it when I had sometimes taken in her morning tisane . |
| 28 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 29 | As we spoke , a car drew up in the carport ( which incidentally was still just as I 'd built it 15 years ago ! ) and to our astonishment ( because the ownership had changed since we sold it ) the lady recognised us ( she 'd been given our Edinburgh address by a mutual friend and had actually called on us once , which we 'd totally forgotten ! ) . |
| 30 | The house was just as I 'd left it — just as you 'd left it . |