Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] i [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have n't even enquired about my holiday or where I spent it . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It 's real strange but I do n't feel cheated or that I deserved something and did n't get it ’ . |
| 3 | Dana continually hinted that she would take off for London if I refused to do just what she wanted , or if I said anything to you . |
| 4 | I bet he could n't know whether it was gon na be good or but I bought it . |
| 5 | I did n't think of her ; I ca n't say I went because I respected her decision or because I thought it was in her interest ; I knew it was n't in her interest , or mine , or ours . |
| 6 | Sometimes , when she was startled or frightened on my fist or as I approached her , it was painful to think that I might be responsible for her fear . |
| 7 | Knowing this , I was still impotent , for I had nothing to put in its stead , no one to turn to for advice or support , and I had learned for myself nothing of life except that I was bad at living , and that where I loved I met only rejection and disaster . |
| 8 | ‘ Except that I heard you threaten to . ’ |
| 9 | Except that I thought you 'd understand — and perhaps I did think that you had a right to know why I feel the way I do about … about anything permanent . ’ |
| 10 | She thought , Now he 'll say what he was going to say last night , except that I made it hard for him , I was so unloving , so unresponsive . |
| 11 | I could n't tell how exactly , except that I found I could n't teach you so well . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't know no more , except that I helped him to hide in the hayloft . |
| 13 | But remember , Isabel , if you dislike your present position , that once I offered you honourable marriage . |
| 14 | Do n't need that cos I got my two |
| 15 | I got Optrex in my room but I bought that cos I used it so much . |
| 16 | The white calico drawers would be standard wear , laundered all together , and I knew , having realized that none of the patients wore their dental plates , that there was no place here for black lace with rosebuds — nor if I brought them would they be long in her possession . |
| 17 | ‘ Look Katie , your job is your business , I admit that until I met you I did n't have a lot of time for the police . |
| 18 | ‘ Although if I knew them and I wanted a nice picture — smiling , arms around each other — I would call out to them , but not before I reached the third frame . ’ |
| 19 | I think he was frightened that I might unwittingly say too much — that if I knew everything , I 'd be more likely to guard my tongue ; be part of the conspiracy . ’ |
| 20 | At least I think that if I knew my rugby , I would be in a good position to acknowledge that you know yours . |
| 21 | Promotion to Vice-Questore seemed certain and the general feeling was that if I played my cards right I would make Questore in the end . |
| 22 | Phil : Well I would say that if I had my life over again I wish and hope that everything happens the same , and I think at the end of the day Becky had been the cream on top of the cake … |
| 23 | I know total-total that if I had my own bike , the Wheels-and-brakes Boys would n't treat me like that . |
| 24 | He added : ‘ I am sure that if I had my time again there would be many things I would do differently ’ , but went on : ‘ Criticism is part of the price of leadership . ’ |
| 25 | I thought that if I told him what had really happened he might not let me go again and I wanted to see Charlie Chaplin and the Keystone Cops ones that were coming soon . |
| 26 | She had kept silent because ‘ my understanding was that if I told anyone I would die . |
| 27 | He warned me that if I told anyone about it , he would just deny it outright . |
| 28 | I soon realized that if I made it a bit spicy , I 'd get more than threepence for it , so I used to make up limericks , things like , |
| 29 | I thought that if I made you realise how strongly I felt you might decide you feel the same . ’ |
| 30 | But then in the next fraction of the same instant I realized that if I thought I had ceased to exist then I existed that the very thinking of this thought was me . |