Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How on earth d' you expect me to sit there watching that woman being forced to humiliate herself like that ? ’ |
| 2 | Erm I do n't know I do n't yo I , I think possibly having that foot up on the stool was perhaps a mistake . |
| 3 | As I sit here typing this letter , the sky is black and it 's pouring with rain — real April showers . |
| 4 | I got up to get some water and went to the window . |
| 5 | In the last six articles I tried not to describe any canoeing technique as right or wrong . |
| 6 | I tried never to throw any food away . |
| 7 | I 'd just met this medium — how could she have known this ? ’ |
| 8 | I , I 'd just taken this thing |
| 9 | I told you I sleep in that chair , did n't I ? — It must have been about midnight because I 'd just watched this film and that did n't finish until half eleven . |
| 10 | And they were interviewing this feller , he said , oh we went for a day out he said and I 'd just bought this car and I was really made up with it he said |
| 11 | I sat up feeling strangely light-headed and carefree ; maybe I 'd not had much sleep , but at least I had beaten the organist , at least I 'd been spared the Magnificat on an empty stomach . |
| 12 | But I 'd already decided that journalism was the perfect career for me . |
| 13 | Er , I hoped I 'd made clear that if the profits of Pearsons erm er not only if they went down but even if er , there was only a small erm , increase in earnings per share er next year that the the directors ' salaries would be very considerably reduced and I thought I 'd already made that erm , er , directors ' erm remuneration total take home pay would be considerably reduced thought I 'd already made that point . |
| 14 | I 'd already gone that way twice . |
| 15 | I 'd never seen such rage in you before |
| 16 | I 'd never seen such chatter , nervousness and exhilaration in the dressing room before . |
| 17 | He said : ‘ It was something I 'd never given any thought to , but it was nice to be asked , and when the Ulster Branch were happy to accept my nomination I was delighted to take up the offer . |
| 18 | I 'd never heard such oratory , admiring the way he took on the hecklers . |
| 19 | I said I pretend I 'd never heard that question David , because if I answer it I said there 's a lot more |
| 20 | Well , I 'd never heard this expression before and ‘ I ’ explained to me that it was another word meaning ‘ lesbian ’ . |
| 21 | I tell you something I wish I 'd never had that cat round my back door . |
| 22 | Until then I 'd never had any intimation of what was being done nowadays in the field of biblical research , or of the attacks being launched by competent historians . |
| 23 | Then , although I 'd never had any morning sickness , I began to feel pain after I 'd eaten . ’ |
| 24 | No , I mean , strangely enough that was one of the things that almost put me off the relationship in the first place because I 'd never had any desire to be a mother . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'd never had any trouble getting pregnant , ’ she says , ‘ And that had been my downfall in a way . |
| 26 | I 'd never paid much attention to it , it was just another little landmark on a daily journey , the last house before the railway bridge . |
| 27 | Sir I 'm beginning to wish I 'd never resurrected this matter . |
| 28 | I 'd always understood that land should only go into the greenbelt if it was necessary to be kept permanently open , by reason of it performing one of the five purposes . |
| 29 | Of course , if I 'd really had any sense I would n't have been there in the first place . |
| 30 | I 'd better go another way home , the long way round . |