Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] i [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I think you 'd better come with me too . |
2 | Someone obviously agreed with me eventually and it was changed to its present cream colour , which is a vast improvement . |
3 | Was my freedom not given to me then in order to build the world of the You ? |
4 | I would n't have done that had he not come at me again . ’ |
5 | I 'm pleased we 've gone away probably , you know , we 've made a few friends because everbody 's just said to me how well we 've played and you know , it was a great game and all that kind of stuff , so that pleases me , I just do n't like losing . |
6 | You know , I was on the phone to a customer for fifteen to twenty minutes because they 'd had a bad experience and I was actually making an appointment for Roy to go in and that twenty minutes is a long time , and I think really if anything , it 's just brought to me really , , how little time sometimes , it 's not always the case , it does vary , that , depending on the incoming calls , depending if you 've got got through the emerging paperwork for whatever reason , how little quality time perhaps you do actually spend on the phone , making outgoing calls to sell . |
7 | ‘ I heard from a third party that Billy Bingham had left me out because of indiscipline , but there was nothing said at the time and he has not spoken to me since . ’ |
8 | It 's only just dawned on me now how he 's got to that . |
9 | Three new people that have just started with me recently . |
10 | At 29 I realise that I 'm never going to get married , for the simple reason that no man has ever looked at me twice . |
11 | No-one had ever winked at me before . |
12 | Well I always have , and my mum 's always said to me why ever do n't you sit down |
13 | ‘ I do n't think a horse has ever quickened for me so well from the final flight . ’ |
14 | You 're the first person who 's ever spoken to me so kindly — but it 's too late . ’ |
15 | It has always seemed to me rather sad that almost any move from beat duty is regarded as a promotion . |
16 | They have always seemed to me either embarrassing or insincere . ’ |
17 | As for church raffles , football club sweeps and fairground tombola , they are fizzy lemonade in comparison and football pools have always seemed to me as harmless as the Christmas sherry . |
18 | ‘ You always dealt with me quite effectively . ’ |
19 | Nothing like this had ever happened to me before and I was determined to make a swift counterattack . |
20 | I thought I had just about run the gamut of sexual experiences , but nothing like this had ever happened to me before . |
21 | Nothing like this has ever happened to me before . ’ |
22 | ‘ Every day we have women come to us in shock , saying ‘ Nothing like this has ever happened to me before . |
23 | Nothing like that has ever happened to me before . ’ |
24 | I 'm not sure that this has ever happened to me before . |
25 | Short hair is strictly forbidden for me not only because of my culture , but because of my lesbianism . |
26 | joined PTGI from Guinness Brewing Great Britain in July last year and , as he says , ‘ things have n't stopped for me since . |
27 | See , Sue has n't come back to me , the science department has n't come to me so I 'm not , I may leave that and say , and do something like that next year in a module or wait until I 've finished again I do n't mind , that 's still something in my mind which I would like to do but because talking to the form tutor 's , what I had written down as a fait a complet erm they 're not too keen so therefore I opened up and say you know , which particular things they were interested in the banking one they are very interested in the environment one , yes , within the school tidy upping area that they would like to do but I 've got ta be able to , and I do n't when planting season is or if I wan na put , be able to put flowers in etcetera , you see what I mean ? |
28 | I think it would n't have been so bad if he had n't swore at me so much , that was worse than hitting me . |
29 | That 's all very well but the hospital have n't written to me yet , so |
30 | He has n't talked to me since , but Violet tells me she has explained to him that ‘ some people are funny about dogs ’ . |