Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aggie made no reply to this , and the child remained quiet until it was evident that she recognized the entrance to the area , for she exclaimed , ‘ Oh ! now I know where we are . ’ |
| 2 | I do n't really know where I , or I know where I 'm going but I have to take the troops with me I had er , I got you see what is parts of a I A P compact certificate it might in fact , if the boss would let me do , if I could do an industry in December right ? |
| 3 | Although I 've never I 've not met this element before it 's rather interesting . |
| 4 | Believe me , it wo n't happen — although I understand why you think it might . |
| 5 | Although I have Well I 've come through two wars and I remember the relief of Mathaking but I 'd sooner that I 've was born when I was . |
| 6 | ‘ Do you know , Father , it was n't until Whitton was dead that I realised how he had held us in his evil thrall . ’ |
| 7 | Instead , now that I knew where she was living , I contacted my solicitors and instructed them to start divorce proceedings . |
| 8 | Yet it was then that I knew why I had come , for just distinguishable to me against the background of reciting voices , I heard my own voice . |
| 9 | Edward knew he was being pampered and , in his letters to Helen about his friendship with Gwili 's sister , he confessed that ‘ in fact it was partly you that I saw when I held her : I hope I shall never forget her ; then I shall feel that it is possible to love another even though I am all and ever yours , little one . |
| 10 | Yeah over that I mean sometimes you want to sit quiet and you can not can you ? |
| 11 | The first thing that I noticed when I arrived in the dusty Managua airport , besides the tanks parked in the landing field , was an enormous poster of an unmistakable Daniel Ortega , clad in blue jeans and a cowboy shirt , holding an infant with an earring . |
| 12 | think I mind says that I ask where you going now , going now or , well he 's not been here . |
| 13 | ‘ No , ’ said Aline , suddenly serious , ‘ it is only that the step from perfectly ordinary things into the miraculous seems to me so small , almost accidental , that I wonder why it astonishes you at all , or why you trouble to reason about it . |
| 14 | In fact , I 'd become so accustomed to relying on her that I wondered how I would . |
| 15 | Can I just say then that I think either it 's got to be blocked completely so they ca n't jump over the bridge , or it 's got to be unblocked . |
| 16 | Erm I mean if you 're if you feel that I do n't I do n't think you 'd have any problem doing this it 's your it 's your it 's the |
| 17 | No oh more sadness there 's one thing that I do n't I searched the whole world for someone like you . |
| 18 | that I did n't I brought the rest for Laddy . |
| 19 | It was n't until I was much older still that I found out she 'd committed suicide . ’ |
| 20 | That I believe now it 's run by the ladies that took over some while ago . |
| 21 | Ridging and patching were the first jobs that I tackled once it became apparent that I was neither going to find another job nor be content to remain a labourer . |
| 22 | I realise that I have little I need to hide . |
| 23 | I have gone much further than I intended when I set out on this report and am already beginning to regret the substantial breach in normal departmental procedures which this has involved . |
| 24 | ‘ Any more than I understand why it 's so important for you to find Garry . |
| 25 | Well I , he lived at Stowmarket for years but then I heard not so long ago that they had moved to Ipswich but where I do n't know but they must be , whether he 's than I have now I do n't know either . |
| 26 | Suppose that it is known that a financial expert reaches the ‘ right ’ decision ( whatever that may be ) in 20% more cases than I do when I do not rely on his advice . |
| 27 | and you probably know more about that than I do so I wo n't you know |
| 28 | When she saw the post of maid in general to Esther Ward advertised , she used all her powers of persuasion to convince Tilly that it would only be for a very short time : ‘ Just so I know how he is … how my daughter Beth is faring . ’ |
| 29 | I 've been in love and fallen out of love so I know how it feels to have been divorced without the formalities . ’ |
| 30 | I shall think of you at Christmas , the more so as my own father died one Christmas Eve , and Richard 's wife in the week before Christmas , so I know how it feels to have sadness at that time . |