Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] i [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for Edward — it was clear that I 'd stumbled on to sensitive ground . |
| 2 | At this point I want to make it quite clear that I have discussed Monitor theory in some detail not to criticize it as such ( cf. |
| 3 | The reaction of spectators was less marked than I had expected . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's all been very interesting and I 've learned quite a lot of things I did n't know before . |
| 5 | Progna I s to be quite h I 've forgotten , it used to me it means something quite interesting and I 've forgotten . |
| 6 | It would perhaps have been entirely adequate if I had received it in any normal circumstances . |
| 7 | Only it went wrong and I got caught by the Russians . |
| 8 | Shh shh , she 's done nothing , she 's done nothing wrong and I 've assaulted her was the assault justified ? |
| 9 | Pat : He was six months old and I 'd gone down for his second immunisation and I mean the doctor I went to see was a family doctor — I 've known him since I was a baby — and he just , he was looking at him and he just said , ‘ Is your husband Chinese ? ’ |
| 10 | I 've been going to the cinema ever since I was 7 years old and I 've seen fights at many films . |
| 11 | Deputy 's free and I 've booked him for the launch |
| 12 | got all teams in it mine 's different cos I 've got intimate football |
| 13 | It was here when it started and the ward was empty and I 've watched it fill up , and now I 'm watching it empty again . |
| 14 | And , ’ obscurely , ‘ my behaviour ’ , as you call it , might have been very different if I 'd known Hugh was a thing of the past . ’ |
| 15 | M.J. talked a lot , and Donald said I encouraged her too much , and that I.C.B. was on the point of being more personal and interesting if I had let her — but I was rather shy of it . |
| 16 | The right is hereditary but I 've done nothing about it , slightly to my father 's chagrin . |
| 17 | I have felt embarrassed because I 've had to meet people afterwards who I who I who I care what they think about me and I 've put in the biggest load of old rubbish . |
| 18 | The truth is I had nothing at all in the bottle — it was empty because I 'd forgotten to get new supplies . |
| 19 | so 's tonight I 'm a different person cos I 've put make up and I went and got my hair done and I feel different tonight but I do n't feel under pressure that I have to wear make up all the time cos nobody treats me any different whether I 've got make up on or whether |
| 20 | All through the '70s I 'd wanted to be in a rock band and I ended up doing it and it was nothing like as exciting as I 'd imagined it from reading and listening to records . |
| 21 | Looking back on it I could not figure out what went wrong as I had done exactly as instructed but nobody had ever really said much about fallen trees or currents and especially not in such a small part of the river . |
| 22 | I was not perhaps as gutless as I had assumed . |
| 23 | I sang , pondering whether my thanks were as spontaneous as I had thought or whether I was just too scared to complain . |
| 24 | Information about day to day life in Islay at that time is scarce so I have selected from those columns a variety of interesting occurrences . |
| 25 | I 'm sorry that I 've lost it , like I think it perhaps Si has lost the pipes . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm sorry that I 've got you all so worried . |
| 27 | Mr Sproat arose and declared : ‘ I am sorry that I feel compelled to enter a gently discordant note into the debate . ’ |
| 28 | I am sorry that I have made them |
| 29 | In fact , everything was much less traumatic and emotional than I 'd expected , probably because I 'm pretty hard on myself anyway . |
| 30 | Now I feel grateful that I 've got someone who listens and who is there for me . |