Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So be it when I shall grow old or let me die . |
| 2 | And it was this that kept me going . |
| 3 | It 's records like this that make me pissed off with political thrashcore . |
| 4 | It was this that prompted me to scrutinize Greek tragedy and thereby gain the new view of the Hellenic spirit that I have been putting forward . |
| 5 | He gave me this and asked me to deliver it to Dick Tavett . |
| 6 | She was quite calm and told me to get a watch and try and time how far apart the pains were . |
| 7 | The altitude is not very good for some of them : a box of old books that I found had congealed together with the damp and had I dared to try and pull one out from the row of upturned spines , to identify it , all the others would have risen too . |
| 8 | That cut our speed some and gave me thinking time , but the traffic seemed to consist entirely of black cabs and VW Golfs full of party-hoppers . |
| 9 | I enquired deeper into the Teachings and the more interested and enlightened I became . |
| 10 | I wish it was yesterday , I wish I was just climbing over the rocks in dear comfortable Mrs McPhee who does n't mind getting wet and lets me breathe — ’ |
| 11 | Now I feel so embarrassed and wish I did n't have breasts at all , or I try to hide them with baggy T-shirts . |
| 12 | At this sort of a reunion , one looks to another and says I do n't look sixty , do I ? |
| 13 | I would rather do that than run I know not where . |
| 14 | ‘ But is the vixen sad or do I attribute sadness to her ? |
| 15 | I I think , I 've a funny feeling that did adopt it but quite how much that means I do n't understand . |
| 16 | They are at any rate central and have I believe served for various committees of inquiry , etcetera , before . |
| 17 | Coo that was creaking and twisting I thought ah |
| 18 | ‘ That I 'm able to offer specially designed , hand-painted tiling lifts my kitchens out of the ordinary and helps me to market them . |
| 19 | Which means , if I 'm not mistaken , that you have n't come here to offer me my son back so much as to ask me to relieve you of Miss Gristy . |
| 20 | He was terrific and made me realise the only reason I had these thoughts was because of the enormous love I have for you . |
| 21 | Why did I bother to tell her , only to have her shout at me , accuse me of being crazy to wake her up for that and tell me to keep my nose out of her brother 's business , especially since it was nothing to do with me . |
| 22 | I mean I 've backed out of going , having , I 'm supposed to be working on that on the stalls as well but I backed out of that and said I 've got a hair cut , erm , so I 'll have to be done last . |
| 23 | Er I , I was going in the evening you know , doing the tailoring class but of course my illnesses have stopped me doing all of that and made me realize I ca n't do it all . |
| 24 | They took the baby and I remember asking if it was okay and did I have a boy or a girl . |
| 25 | If that 's what you 're doing in practice , say so , do n't put all these exclusions in the document because that makes me suspicious and makes me think you 're trying to exclude these things . |
| 26 | I find the textual basis for this interpretation very flimsy , in fact there is clear erm erm erm textual evidence for precisely the opposite and let me cite erm one instance Locke is here talking about tacit consent and the purchase of property and erm he says whenever the owner who has given nothing but such a tacit consent to the government will by donation , sale or otherwise quit the said possession , he is at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other commonwealth or to agree with others to begin a new one in any part of the world they can find free and unpossessed whereas he that has once by actual agreement in any expressed declaration given his consent to be of any commonwealth is perpetually and indispensably obliged to be and remain unalterably a subject to it and can never be again in the liberty of the state of nature . |
| 27 | I told 'im I was gettin' over me wounds an' 'e said the work was 'ard an' did I fink I could manage it . |
| 28 | Perhaps I should start by telling you something I 'll not be talking about and that is the subject of financial resources and how Lynda 's getting on in her discussions with chief secretary , I do n't suppose that comes to you as any surprise but I shall I not be talking on that but let me say that we remain committed strongly to a substantial aid programme which as far as possible is directed towards the poorest countries . |
| 29 | And all that let me tell you after Pisa looked so dangerous in the first eight minutes , clearly they 'd come out looking for the early goal themselves , and who was badly fouled by in the early stages and needed attention , he 's the number eight , and the number eleven , who looks as quick as any player I 've seen in ages and ages , they are the two danger men and they will need some marking . |
| 30 | I wanted to know why she thought I would be the least bit interested in all that drivel I had just had to sit through . |