Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] you [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why have I always felt that I knew you before ? ’ |
| 2 | I 'm sorry that I told you now . |
| 3 | Er , I am mindful chairman that I embarrassed you acutely at the end of education meeting on Friday , erm , and I know that I , I have a circumstance coming up in February , where I have a child who is unexpectedly on a training day , erm , on a day where I actually have two meetings of this council , now either I get substituted , or we arrange for a one off carer situation . |
| 4 | But you must believe that I kept you here not because I wanted to , but because I believed it my duty to those whom God ( or , well , the Company anyway ) has placed in my care . |
| 5 | However , it is not about your father that I summoned you today , it is about you . ’ |
| 6 | And I have to confess that I found you as delightful then as I had in Wexford , and was intending to find out where you were going , and pursue the acquaintanceship . |
| 7 | I struggled with the whole thing the night before Christmas and the whole of Christmas Day , and finally I realised then that I wanted you just as you were . |
| 8 | I 'd just like to add that included in the numbers that I gave you for Camco were not just redundancy costs , but costs of closures of sales offices , distribution networks and some other special one-time charges , so it 's not pure redundancy when you look at the numbers that I gave you earlier on . |
| 9 | Once I realised you really were blind . |
| 10 | I went and ordered a taxi , and I took you home . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ And I thought you rather looked down on Miguelito and his fake charm ? ’ |
| 12 | So he got Times Roman headlines in , very simple layout , and he did some caps bold , and then he said to me he had done all the headlines ragged and I said you just missed one thing — centre the heads . |
| 13 | Anger responses can quickly degenerate into self-pity , self-indulgence or self-righteousness ; a desire to teach the other person a thing or two — even an exaggerated desire to show that I am right after all , and I told you so ! |
| 14 | No , by good fortune we met , after you were accidentally parted from Rose , and I saw you chastely home . |
| 15 | a real hand and I gave you about thirty chances , they all stuck together . |
| 16 | He said it was clear to him you were pining away , and that you could only be saved if I took you away and made love to you for the rest of our lives . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Tell me , then , what would my wife your mother do if I took you home with me ? |
| 18 | Erm I do n't know if I told you before , I hated any sort of games . |
| 19 | If I told you now that we needed another five gangs of floor tilers or whatever it was which you had n't got enough of , it wo n't be floor tilers something you have n't got enough of , everything , could you get them by Monday ? |
| 20 | How would you feel if I told you there was a girl going to have a child of mine — some other girl , some stranger ? |
| 21 | ‘ Capron said if I met you again I 'd be sacked . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ If I touched you again tonight I would n't stop . ’ |
| 23 | Even taking into account the fact that you 're dead , really … ask yourself , if I asked you straight off — I 'm going to stuff you in this box now , would you rather be alive or dead ? |
| 24 | A : When you ask that you betray your belief that one class is indeed superior to another : that to be born to the uneducated lower classes is a singular life-problem : though I 'm sure if I asked you straight you would , in your gentle , blind , liberal way , deny it . |
| 25 | ‘ Look , I know that one should n't mix business with pleasure , but if I asked you again , would you come out with me ? ’ |
| 26 | If I asked you now would n't you have to say ‘ no ’ ? |
| 27 | It 's not as if I gave you much choice . |
| 28 | Let me look at you and see if I remembered you right . |
| 29 | If I had ever loved you , if I loved you still , I could not hate myself for my weakness as much as I do now . ’ |
| 30 | Tell nanny what that means cos I asked you yesterday . |