Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was always a bad correspondent , ’ berated Lear , ‘ but surely you are still more unconscientious , for when I do write , you answer me by a short scrawl — only one word of which out of every 2d can I decipher , & I have kept your last and only epistle to see if I ca n't sell it as an ancient hieroglyphic . ’ |
| 2 | I opened my eyes eventually and took the compass out of my jeans pocket , where I 'd stowed it to have hands free for standing up . |
| 3 | I did n't dare return to the-place where I 'd killed him because I could easily arouse suspicion . |
| 4 | Later I saw blood on my hand where I 'd grabbed him . |
| 5 | Blood ran from his face where I had cut it , but I had fought too many fights that night . |
| 6 | I stacked the papers carefully and replaced them where I had found them . |
| 7 | I remember standing in the dinner queue and all these kids coming up to me , asking me if it was true , where I had got her from and what I was doing with her . |
| 8 | I had registered for my classes , and Professor Ruiperez had shown me my lecture-rooms , where I had introduced myself to large classes of students , mixed men and women , with a preponderance of women , as is usual in foreign arts faculties . |
| 9 | Where I 've wet it what 's it done to it ? |
| 10 | where I 've dropped it for , well then , it 's the toilet brush you see , I 've been going like this with the toilet |
| 11 | Well where I 've put me bricks they 're |
| 12 | We are standing in that kitchen where I 've shared her meals and laughter , and she finishes drying the glass and places it carefully on the table . |
| 13 | Thus it is that some of the Khans may perceive influence where I have exerted none . ’ |
| 14 | or I 've lost it on t' way running for bus . |
| 15 | We crashed … and I 've been ill , or I 've lost my memory or something . |
| 16 | And er this is what I do , Well I used to do jobs round here for a while or I 've chucked it up now aye . |
| 17 | So to get back to what we say er yeah I like to fix a date and if people phone up and say well look I 've I 've got something else or I 've changed my mind I would rather have that than to have lots of paper work on my desk that just says may be or may be not . |
| 18 | I do n't know what 's happened lately — the machine has either taken notice and chosen to behave or I have mastered it at last , because I have managed to finish two sweaters this week ! |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't know anything except I 've done something unforgivable and you have to help me undo it . |
| 20 | That is er clean , except I 've wiped my hands on it . |
| 21 | Neither Brian nor I had told our mother about these beatings but now , incensed , I pulled up my shorts and showed him some half-healed scars . |
| 22 | Although I had saved his country from attack by Blefuscan warships , he preferred to remember my refusal . |
| 23 | Erm Well I 'm a trained teacher but er I did n't get much experience in teaching although I had obtained my degree in teaching in nineteen fifty-eight . |
| 24 | Although I had seen you , Frankenstein , for only a few moments , I knew that I belonged to you . |
| 25 | I hated the hoop of diamonds which , although I had washed it , looked somehow dirty . |
| 26 | And although I had disappointed her by going into ‘ trade ’ , I was still the son of the house . |
| 27 | Although I 've said I 'm happy with how I look , it does n't mean there 's nothing about myself I would n't like to change . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm sure my husband wo n't mind me saying that it was not his wealth which made us all respect him — although I 've heard my husband say many a time that the wealth of Mr D'Arcy of Moss Side by Manchester was of an enormity to make the sultans and pashas of the East take note — but it was not for that , not at all , that we , all of us who knew of him … ’ |
| 29 | Then you go back and you think : ‘ Well , although I 've done my best , maybe I have to find that little bit extra as a black person . ’ |
| 30 | Ca n't say I 've learnt much although I 've started it again and again in the last two years . |