Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] i [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was trying to sit where I normally sit . |
| 2 | I 've always wished that I never came back to this country . |
| 3 | I was flooded with joy , and all at once it seemed the most important thing in the world that he should know that I still loved him , too . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't know that I ever 'ad one , the orphanage never said I did , but they did say me birthday was December the second , and that I was born in 1889 . ’ |
| 5 | Count Hubner thought that the Empress was ‘ more beautiful than ever ’ , and Lord Cowley , the English ambassador , said : ‘ I do not know that I ever witnessed a finer sight than the baptismal ceremonies . ’ |
| 6 | erm , and erm , I do n't know that I ever did this , but I never heard anybody heard anybody walking the street , whistling the National Anthem . |
| 7 | Do you know that I once beat Ulrike Meyfarth ! ’ |
| 8 | Well I 've got lots of acquaintances but I do n't know that I necessarily want to put them on the erm |
| 9 | The hon. and learned Gentleman will know that I recently had the privilege of giving the Sir George Bean memorial lecture in which I set out in some detail to the Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women the basis for my approach to such matters . |
| 10 | Readers from last month will be glad to know that I finally tracked down the elusive Tequila based Marguerita in a Tex-Mex cafe in Covent Garden . |
| 11 | I thought it might be drugged so I only pretended to drink it , putting the cup to my lips and setting it down again full after an interval . |
| 12 | Please say that I finally look my age at least ! ’ |
| 13 | No you say that I once got off with someone for some cigarettes , I never felt so awful . |
| 14 | First you find out that she 's dead ; then , a while later , I say that I never killed a single patient . |
| 15 | I once visited a pensioner in my village and mentioned that I occasionally like jam but never make it myself because I do not eat it often enough . |
| 16 | Thus it was n't for many years after the first inhibitor experiments were reported that I actually got around to test their effects myself . |
| 17 | The tone controls really are sensitive and , being used to the somewhat reluctant EQ on my own amplifier , I found that I only had to move the X-Amp 's a few degrees before the sound began to change radically . |
| 18 | And I had spent a total of three winters playing Grade cricket in the city and found that I really liked the place and the people . |
| 19 | ‘ The discourtesy shown to me , down to the last detail … was not expected and I profoundly resent it , ’ he wrote to his brother after a visit to the new Prime Minister at Chequers . |
| 20 | ‘ I do not know if I even have strength enough to regain the shelter I have just come from … ’ and her wings seemed to weaken by the second and her eyes to be pained . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't know if I really want one , ’ she said . |
| 22 | but I do n't know if I still believe |
| 23 | Besides , the sorts of holidays Rose and I usually go on would n't have been up-market enough for George . ’ |
| 24 | But I was gon na tell you about there was one day I was at for money and I 'm coming up the road , and here this chap was standing in the road and er kind of thumbing a lift , so I says to him , I stopped and I often lift people in the road but er after he got into the , I had an old Bradford van at the time , and he said er , I said to him , I says , are you on a hiking holiday ? |
| 25 | All that might be allowed for in this context was that individual cases might be considered if I particularly pressed " , and it has to be added that this was in full accordance with the AFHQ instruction of 7 March which stated that " it is not the policy of she British Government to encourage any of those persons who become a British responsibility to put forward claims that they are NOT Soviet Citizens " . |
| 26 | Well , you know , it you see , time were , I do n't know I suppose , I do n't know but I never seemed to be afraid and I used to have my or something round my waist , a belt with the keys hanging on and they supplied me with a as well , one of these , I do n't know what they 're made of they were n't all that heavy but still they were heavy enough to keep on . |
| 27 | ‘ I was devastated because I really needed the job . |
| 28 | That 's useful to know because I usually like to get up rather late . |
| 29 | Well I I was eleven but by the time but I had a birthday , you see , er in the summer and er er well August actually and so when I started at Stowmarket I was twelve , you see , and er and er I was at Stowmarket School and scholarship for four years and er well I do n't know whether I really liked school , did you ? |
| 30 | I do n't know whether I ever meant to call on Ben or not — it 's been such a long time — but I was interested to see the boat . |