Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That feeling lasted a while but after we 'd had the children something changed and I slowly realized that I did n't love her anymore . |
| 2 | I called in Doctor Andrews last night — I felt a little shaken and I do n't like that hotel fellow — and he supplied me with the information , ’ was the reply . |
| 3 | ‘ You have to be competitive to keep on competing but I try to instil the value of the social side of it in my dancers . |
| 4 | ‘ The car was so badly crushed that I thought about asking the boss if he wanted it posting back . ’ |
| 5 | On that occasion I had the hardest fight of my career and my prominent nose was badly broken before I won on points . |
| 6 | ‘ I had rather expected before I went that I might not be taken seriously as a woman . |
| 7 | You 'd much prefer that I did n't . ’ |
| 8 | what you , your case is as I understand it , I 've only intervened cos I think the question did n't dis perhaps a lack of understanding this by Lord allow me to say so , what you 're saying is that erm , in fact , although not intentionally you 're prepared to accept the format of the brochure in relation to the on going charges was such as could reasonably be said by your newspaper to have mislead prospective purchasers |
| 9 | I think I mean it was interesting cos someone said earlier about people coming in I mean once you get them in I mean I always feel it 's like the pantomime each year which is an amateur pantomime yet the actual people coming in to see that I mean it 's well in the ninety per cent 's and you talk to people when they come to see the pantomime and ver invariably the the mum 's or dad 's say no I do n't normally come to theatre but I come to the pantomime and they enjoy it very much and when you talk to them they can say well what you think of it ? |
| 10 | Arriving , I suddenly realized that I did n't have a job to do . |
| 11 | I can only think that I mean it sticks to the sides of the bin at the bottom |
| 12 | ‘ It was as if The Wedding Present only formed when I joined , which was nice in a way , ’ says Charman . |
| 13 | I have tried the Theakston 's brewed at the Masham brewery in recent weeks , and can only comment that I prefer the Gallowgate product . |
| 14 | Since I repotted it this spring into a generous-sized pot , it has not only burgeoned but I 've also found it much easier to keep the compost just nicely moist . |
| 15 | So say if I said to you , well if and I said to you , Well what could I do ? |
| 16 | I merely say that I think the question might be expected to interest your readers , but I am by no means confident that they will care much about the matter . |
| 17 | On the day I hit the big Four-O , the fog suddenly lifted and I celebrated non-stop . |
| 18 | My Thanks are due , ’ Prince wrote to Jardine on 7 April 1840 , ‘ for your instructions respecting the specimens in spirits , which I have since carefully examined , separated and supplied with fresh spirit ; many of them I regret to add are much decomposed and I fear some may at last prove useless . ’ |
| 19 | I was so overwhelmed that I started to cry . |
| 20 | ‘ And , for your information , I 've long wished that I 'd never heard of you — or your wretched grandmother . |
| 21 | I 've tried it sometimes , never long enough to know whether I did it successfully or not , but I found there is absolutely no way of telling because even if it changes in a way one can predict , what one can predict is the way oneself changes or the world changes at the same time . |
| 22 | Bainbridge has a lovely village green which was the setting for nothing more remarkable than the fact that I arrived there one day to walk over from Bainbridge to Cam Houses with Tony and Eddie , the landlord from my local pub , only to discover that I 'd left my walking boots back at home in Dentdale and had to do the entire walk in a pair of fur-lined cowboy boots , which earned me the nickname of Roy Rogers for the rest of the week . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm definitely less stressed because I do n't have to do the four things I was no good at — timesheets , billing , chasing debtors and doing my expenses ! ’ |
| 24 | Winding down I gave a firm strike only to find that I had missed the take , I was gutted . |
| 25 | He told me this gaily , as if it did not much matter whether I believed it or no . |
| 26 | Rather unreasonably , I felt somewhat cheated for I had been the one to traipse around the town , forgetting all the preliminary work that others had done ! |
| 27 | You two must be better matched than I thought . ’ |
| 28 | I was so overcome that I approached Shell and offered to buy it . ’ |
| 29 | But the actual impetus to ‘ act ’ only came when I met the right people in the right context … that is , Gerry and Amitha and the rest of the Working Party . |
| 30 | If I 'd less sense than I have , I 'd have believed them . |