Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [pron] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was obliged to write essays … where I gave myself up to an almost purely artistic rendering of such facts as I remembered , and such opinions as I could concoct by the help of memory , fancy , and the radical and the free-thinking influence of home … |
| 2 | PS JOANNE … could you send me your fax number again if you still need the telegraph thing , the number you gave before is wrong — or I copied it down wrong . |
| 3 | Or I get it off our old lady . |
| 4 | Its complete lack of any taste was so nauseating that I spat it out and decided to eat the rest of the bread by itself I was finishing this when there was the sound of boots in the passage again . |
| 5 | He drew me into the family circle , laughing , telling his mother of my struggles , of the broken door , but when I started to take my veil off he would n't have it and insisted that I keep it on . |
| 6 | I do n't want anyone to suspect that I favour you over your sisters , which is something they already fear because of our business connection . ’ |
| 7 | I found that I put them back into their correct order with ease and , for the first and last time , achieved some distinction in the marking . |
| 8 | But I accidentally hit Jason full on the jaw so hard that I knocked him over . |
| 9 | She was so obviously upset by the break-up that I asked her out to lunch to cheer her up , and I asked her home because I thought my mother and sister might help her . |
| 10 | It is exactly the sort of corkscrew I always use but the room was so dark and I so flurried that I drove it in sideways and broke the cork . |
| 11 | In the end , my knitting was getting so chewed with all the knitting and unravelling that I took it off on waste yarn . |
| 12 | Lucky that I carry it around with me ; and that it bears not the faintest resemblance to Daniel . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Well , you remember that I want you in by one at the latest . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ That sound changes as I go from the window that I picked it up in , to a different window , or to the desktop . ’ |
| 15 | no I did n't , I did n't mean that , I did n't mean that I turned it over I 'm not gon na false out bloody conversation just for the sake of it |
| 16 | I thought it was n't fair that I should begin to show when I was barely into my fourth month , and I got angry with my clothes , as if it were their fault that I pulled them out of shape . |
| 17 | I confess that I ladled it out as liberally as anybody . |
| 18 | The former schoolteacher said : ‘ I do n't take the mickey out of the contestants any more than I take it out of myself . |
| 19 | Marie 's left a load of mags behind , so I pick one up and have a flick through it . |
| 20 | My hat 's fell off so I stick it back on and look round . |
| 21 | I do n't mind shopping on Saturday when I 've got the money , but I do n't like it during the week — I 'm usually broke by Monday — so I keep it down to a minimum . |
| 22 | Disconnect the mains lead to your PC and plug it into the Expert ; there are two sockets for power leads leaving the UPS , so I checked it out with two PCs . |
| 23 | I was afraid of getting an arrow in my eyes , but I suddenly remembered I still had an old pair of reading glasses in my pocket , so I put them on and continued my work . |
| 24 | ‘ Corsages were kept in a little drop of water , ’ Harry explained , ‘ but you ca n't plunge a bouquet in a drop of water , so I put them over a bowl of water supported by two canes . |
| 25 | ‘ You 're not going to believe this , ’ said Alex , ‘ but I actually picked up the phone to call you this morning , except I realized it would have been the middle of the night your end so I put it down again . ’ |
| 26 | Angela , 19 , from Woolton and presently studying medicine at Nottingham University , says : ‘ I had all the classic symptoms of flu so I put it down to that . |
| 27 | But dear Caroline 's got an almighty hangover , sick as a dog , so I brought him over on the back of the bike to see it again . |
| 28 | He came round to Grace , so I brought him along here . " |
| 29 | Mrs Donnelly said : ‘ I explained I did not want to buy any windows , but the salesman said he just wanted to show us what was on offer so I let him in . |
| 30 | Like , I did n't know whether to believe him or not , but you 'd feel wick if he was n't spoofing , so I let him off with a caution . |