Example sentences of "[subord] [conj] i [vb past] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | So say if I said to you , well if and I said to you , Well what could I do ? |
| 3 | But I suppose I must have told them how things were between me and Richard because as I lay on my bed , in my old room , I heard Aunt Lilian telephoning . |
| 4 | I should think there 's a very high probability that it will because as I said to you earlier , the , yes . |
| 5 | The real point of this story is that , so far as I know , Eliot never read the Hardy Preface , because when I referred to it again about twenty-five years later , he gave the impression of not knowing about it . |
| 6 | My father and mother had died some years before and I lived with my brother Rabah , my sister Rabiha , my wife Sulafa and my baby son . |
| 7 | But people do live there , though when I moved in it became clear that a third of the flats were empty . |
| 8 | What as as I said to you twenty percent of the messages a word sounds the same . |