Example sentences of "[vb past] i [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.

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1 When 1911 came I often marvel to myself in the name of Heaven how it was done " .
2 I sa , I said I just went I just said to her look Hannah you do n't have to come in the car !
3 I nearly I 'm lacking indoors , I 'm very lacking indoors I nearly lay down last night but I knew I just wanted to be
4 I say , the reason I think I had bad dreams , recently , in the last sort of three nights , is because they 're the three nights I went swimming early , so I thought I better go to bed early .
5 ‘ What did I just agree to ? ’ she whispered .
6 At once all sternness and hostility fell from him and , amusement lighting his dark eyes once more , ‘ I do know that , Fabia , ’ he drawled , adding , with pole-axing charm , ‘ Believe me , I would n't take you anywhere , did I not want to . ’
7 But , while there was a great urge in her to want to extend the dream of an evening , there was also that part of her that , for all Ven 's , ‘ I would n't take you anywhere , did I not want to ’ and his ‘ What a charming companion you 've been ’ , caused her to push temptation away .
8 And as her heart turned over , so she again remembered his , ‘ Believe me , I would n't take you anywhere did I not want to ’ of yesterday .
9 Did I really want to be left in Danu without a protector ?
10 But then , how many ex-air commanders did I really expect to be female ?
11 You know she said I just said to her oh how 's Jimmy sort of thing and she said he 's alright .
12 He said I just speak to him he said when I see him and they 're nice to me and I 'm nice to them .
13 he made a joke about a blonde you see just before that , anyway and I said I just wanted to , do you know who is on so he said oh he thinks is on and that must be the from
14 He 's only said these things , sort of , trying out to see because he does n't he does n't know if very much , oh it 's so sad Brenda , he said to me we were talking on Wednesday night , I think and he looked wistfully at me and he said I only want to be taught .
15 Anyway , th the guy we had tonight reckoned that er he never quite got to grips with er Bernstein and he 's f and he , he apologized for being stuck in restrictive which er he could n't even remember that it was called restrictive until somebody told him but he said ah yes that 's it , but yes I never managed to he said I never managed to really get very far with that .
16 Had I not gone to Normandy just over forty years ago wearing on my shoulder the same emblem , that mythical beast , the Wyvern of Wessex , half dragon , half eagle , that had fluttered over the heads of the English at both those battles ?
17 ‘ And to think I might have sailed up it had I not chosen to be independent .
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