Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] i [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new flat was smaller than the old so I had to sell some of my furniture . |
| 2 | The reaction of spectators was less marked than I had expected . |
| 3 | It would perhaps have been entirely adequate if I had received it in any normal circumstances . |
| 4 | got all teams in it mine 's different cos I 've got intimate football |
| 5 | And , ’ obscurely , ‘ my behaviour ’ , as you call it , might have been very different if I 'd known Hugh was a thing of the past . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I was we were playing this and erm they were really good because they 'd obviously played before and I could n't and they just kept it was really funny cos I kept getting like two and getting like two thousand or whatever and I want to do it really well , I 'm playing them again but they would n't so it |
| 8 | Its funny cos I decided to watch the fa youth cup final from last year on friday … coincidence or what . |
| 9 | ‘ The substitution was purely tactical because I wanted to get some height up front , ’ said Francis . |
| 10 | Monday afternoons I have to keep free because I like to take Mrs James — the domestic help — home and Friday afternoon Lucy has a dancing lesson . |
| 11 | I know but they 'll think no but the bit that this happens , you know like they do get high because I mean take drugs |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The truth is I had nothing at all in the bottle — it was empty because I 'd forgotten to get new supplies . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I was not perhaps as gutless as I had assumed . |
| 18 | So a friend was embarrassed when I wanted to examine every object his family had made : the weathered pitchforks crafted from branching joints of trees ; strong rope twisted from straw ; bundles of sesame-seed stalks used as firewood after the seeds had been eaten ; hand-woven winnowing baskets , and heavy clay pots for keeping water cool in hot summers . |
| 19 | I was 19 years old when I made To Have and To Hold , but Humphrey Bogart was never my idol . |
| 20 | I was eleven years old when I started playing golf . |
| 21 | Although this radio programme was broadcast nationally , I found it very interesting as I happened to know the area in question . |
| 22 | I sang , pondering whether my thanks were as spontaneous as I had thought or whether I was just too scared to complain . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | If I ca n't , I 'll be really upset so I have to do everything step by step ’ |
| 25 | In fact , everything was much less traumatic and emotional than I 'd expected , probably because I 'm pretty hard on myself anyway . |
| 26 | He was buoyant today , but also edgy and more authoritative than I 'd seen him for ages , when mostly he 'd been gloomy and sulky . |
| 27 | Well once I 've got you know once I 've got the shape of the story in my mind I can it down in an hour or so every time you know it 's in long hand , then it takes me hours to type it but er you know the actual once I 've got the idea I I find it necessary to get it all down you know in long hand as quickly as possible . |
| 28 | I felt relieved once I 'd started because at last I felt I was doing something about my life . |
| 29 | This phrase may appear rather vague so I need to spell out what I mean by it . |
| 30 | The response to the CBSO concerts was luke warm so I decided to postpone booking tickets until later in the year — let me know if you 'd be interested . |