Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] i [verb] i " in BNC.
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1 | When it was rephrased , ‘ Do you ever find yourself saying , I wish 1 could do this better or I wish I knew more about that ? ’ it was more easily understood . |
2 | This semi-audible remark made me uneasy — that there had been debate at all on my utility — so much so that I wished I had never heard it . |
3 | ‘ I was thinking about what you were saying , ’ I told her , while memories of Nour flooded my being so that I felt I could n't bear it but must instantly take that gleaming knife and open my body to let him out . |
4 | ‘ Only that I thought I might move house in a couple of years . |
5 | It is only that I feel I may make a new friend and be rewarded with company . |
6 | ‘ Oh , it 's only that I feel I 've been wasting my life ! |
7 | He said I ca n't I 'm here on my own , he said get a cab and I 'll give you the money back , so anyway I rung Pauline 's husband up Steve and he said I 'll take you , I said to Steve I 've got ta get there for one o'clock cos I said I really do feel that if I do n't see him before he goes I ai n't gon na bloody see him , he was ever so good , he were here at twenty to one , got straight in the car put his foot down , went to the General and just as I got in the door Steve do n't worry about me parking , go , I 'll find you , just get in there , I ran through the bloody doors , ran up the stairs cos I knew |
8 | I ca n't remember apparently like I said I I did n't say I 'm gon na be sick . |
9 | so if I feel I 'm in the right and I fe I feel I can impose that upon them . |
10 | I said you , she said yes , I 'm afraid so and I said I do sometimes begrudge it to those men in there . |
11 | so and I thought I could just leave him sort of like a message that was subtle enough |
12 | And er oh it , it were about seven o'clock and I said I 'll go and play with Len ti till half past , he says well be a , be back by half past eight . |
13 | ‘ Only because I realised I never did get around to telling you that you are , without question , the most insolent , wilful , egocentric human being I 've ever met ! ’ |
14 | And then it was only because I knew I was going to have to leave at the crack of dawn on Friday , and I would n't have time to fix anything up . ’ |
15 | I never thought to see the day , and all because I said I fiddled with wireless . |
16 | ‘ It was n't long before I wished I had never said that . |
17 | It was not long before I found I liked the Semmens family very much . |
18 | Sparks had been my life for only 16 years , but long before I joined I had admired its style , history and clientele — over a century of selling fine Chinese art , for the past 60 years from that great drawing-room of a shop in Mount Street . |
19 | It was ten seconds or so before I realized I was supposed to be looking at the inside of the wooden door . |
20 | I stayed in the cafe for as long as I felt I could and then went back outside . |
21 | You 're afraid to ask perhaps for I mean I 've lived in a house with a landlord , the landlord turned the heating down , turned the water heating off on occasions because we were using too much hot water between about four or five of us . |
22 | I could n't see myself doing it so as I said I was n't going to make a fool of myself by putting my name as being nominated forward er as a candidate etcetera lose interest that 's the first thing that happened because they knew I was an outspoken bloke . |
23 | So as I say I , I found Friday very useful , I found the er , the renewed routines , although we , I mean we all had lots of problems with the videos , they did n't come out but it did n't really matter because the three of us in our group sat there and very openly , very honestly , and without any personal animosity whatsoever helped each other and that again , as I say very useful and so above all a and I think it 's something that I feel very strongly about because we have n't talked to people we 've , in English , understandable language about what this is all about . |
24 | So as I say I would expect to see these percentages significantly increased erm . |
25 | So as I say I think it 'll , I think it 'll , it 'll run okay and behave itself on the assumption you can get some people to fill it in so er |
26 | The food was not too good , nor too plentiful , so when I returned I was a lot lighter and a lot fitter . |
27 | So when I knew I had cancer and was facing death , I still could n't pray to the God I associated with the churches . |
28 | We can both feel the strain plucking at the atmosphere , so when I say I 'll return the keys to the landlord she gives me his address to get me out of the way . |
29 | But if just once I feel I 've run as hard as I possible could , in good shape , and I 've still only done 27:50 , maybe I 'll be happy to say , ‘ Oh well , Solly , you 've been kidding yourself all along ’ . ’ |
30 | It 's just that I wish I 'd got my wretched memory back some other way . ’ |