Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's possible I 've used it but I do n't erm do n't recall . |
| 2 | I know next to nothing about wild flowers , and what little I do know I learnt largely when I was a pink-kneed " Boy Sprout " in Manchester and in order to pass some badge or other I had to be able to burn some dough on a stick over an open fire , make smoky porridge and recognise six kinds of trees and flowers from their leaves and blossoms . |
| 3 | Sorry I had to desert you yesterday . ’ |
| 4 | I 'm sorry I had to deliver it , but there it is . ’ |
| 5 | Ta sorry I had to drag you out here on this weather . |
| 6 | I 'm sorry I had to spring it on you like that . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm only sorry I had to bring you out in it . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm sorry I 've worried you , ’ I said . |
| 9 | I 'm sorry I 've hurt you , truly I am . |
| 10 | I 'm sorry I have to ask you to say who you are before you speak . |
| 11 | ‘ Sorry I forgot to tell you . |
| 12 | Well Mr never been before at least I 've done it for the first few years that I was there . |
| 13 | That is , that is the least I 've known it |
| 14 | For the first term I felt guilty I 'd abandoned him even though he 'd told me to come and could stand on his own two feet . |
| 15 | If Mom is still alive I have to find her . |
| 16 | ‘ I should be grateful I 've found her , ’ she whispered . |
| 17 | After that I have to leave you and get back to Florence . ’ |
| 18 | Do n't have to talk about an just a good chat you know just I do n't want to I do n't want to talk about good people or all about that I do n't want to talk about that I want to talk I want to talk to that person out there who will feel now that it is them that I am I am appealing to I am appealing I now . |
| 19 | At two fifty , thank you , at two fifty I 've got I shall sell for two fifty if there 's no further bid at two hundred and fifty pounds . |
| 20 | ‘ But I got so depressed I had to have it cut short . |
| 21 | He 's quite pleased to think that someone 's given him a hole to get into . |
| 22 | So er when I found out about this I 've equipped them with a er |
| 23 | Well in this I 've got her as the , dim twit . |
| 24 | All this I 've got it . |
| 25 | and in Le Vilain asnier : ( And through this I wish to show you that he acts without sense or measure who , through pride , acts beyond his nature : nobody should disnature himself . ) |
| 26 | upon this I do assure you |
| 27 | And of course the third group of students write and say , ‘ Yes , I applied last year to do Biology , I want to do it , and I 'm really clear I want to do it . ’ |
| 28 | He stuffed it hastily back , afraid someone had seen him reading it , and took ‘ To Mother Dear ’ and his two shillings up to the counter . |
| 29 | For all his ego and vanity , even Florian has never for a moment imagined that I felt any sort of lust or love for him , although he also has no idea just how selfish and immature I do find him outside a broadcasting studio . |
| 30 | Rather than to characterise Genetic Alchemy as definitive I prefer to view it as a valuable ‘ second generation ’ effort , considerably more scholarly than its predecessors but with more than a whiff of the critical and sceptical attitudes of the disciplines that focus not so much on the substance of science as on its character as a social institution . |