Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] i [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've often wished that I had stayed on and tried for university , but I was n't keen , and my family was n't the sort to encourage it . |
| 2 | During the summer , and I called into the hospital on several occasions and I was reminded that I had agreed to participate in the ‘ fun run ’ and I decided it would be a good publicity gimmick and improve my chances of sponsorship if I took along and pushed him around the 10 mile course . |
| 3 | It 's cheered me up no end to be reminded that I do have work and a brain and something to do when I 'm allowed up again . ’ |
| 4 | I 'd forgotten that I 'd said that , and was , in any case , already regretting the admission . |
| 5 | Yeah and I 'd forgotten that I 'd spoken to her the other night |
| 6 | I 'd forgotten that I 'd agreed to meet her . |
| 7 | I was so overwhelmed that I started to cry . |
| 8 | Er a a and with a family row in in it as well you can imagine the work involved was a bit more than initially might have been expected and I got criticized because the bill was bigger than I had first estimated cos I did n't expect there 'd be trouble from the father . |
| 9 | I 've come and I 've took my boots off and poured the bloody rain out . |
| 10 | But now Ellen the time I have long awaited has come and I write to tell you that an Italian maidservant by name of Gigia who is travelling home to Florence having been in Scotland with a family who are friends of the Brownings is to come to you to collect Oreste and take him to Liverpool where she will be joined by Mr Ogilvy and from whence they will sail for Italy . |
| 11 | I 'm well educated and I 've got two children and I can manage pretty well , there 's a number of much more essential things that I know how to do , but I ca n't do those ones , and when they come up I feel like weeping myself sick . " |
| 12 | ‘ He 's not yet hanged and I wish to speak with him , now ! ’ |
| 13 | Far from looking cool I must have looked like I 'd done a packet in my trousers . |
| 14 | ’ ‘ I would n't have come , ’ said the soldier , who would not have missed it for worlds , ‘ I would n't have come if I 'd known there would be Druids squashing and glooming . |
| 15 | and he just said oh I 'm so sorry he said I would n't have come if I had known , but there was a massive wreath in the garden where that girl was knocked over |
| 16 | eighty nine thousand , I need another go round and another thousand pound and I 've won because I 've got me two thingybobs |
| 17 | The time 's come when I 've got to make a change . |
| 18 | My canoe had turned side on to the river and against the flow and as I turned to see what the noise was I realised that I had hit a log sticking out of the water . |
| 19 | And yet , when I came to know my associates , a far greater intimacy and sense of comradeship developed than I had known with any but my closest friends at school or university . |
| 20 | If not , it is their loss , for it is the catholicity of the education to which I was exposed that I have come most to value . |
| 21 | He could take her away , I thought , he could just do that , he has such power to hurt me , this little furry creature who has n't even noticed that I 've given up the weed . |
| 22 | I mean I spoke to Jane the other Sunday and I , I said to her you know , just be honest , I said I do n't care what you said , but just be honest and tell me how much you think I weigh , cos she does n't know how much I weigh and she thought I weighed about ten stone , I said well stick thirteen pounds on top of that , then you 'll be right , she could n't believe that I , that I weighed that much , so obviously it does n't look that bad and people at work , well they 've noticed that I 've lost weight , but they do n't say how much they think I weigh , so I do n't want come to them to sort of , have a , have a g have a guess of my weight . |
| 23 | You may have caught me doing this some of you may have have noticed that I try to force meself not to and it 's something to remember . |
| 24 | Immediately I was instructed that I had had the good fortune to be posted to ‘ the division where real polising is done … ’ |
| 25 | But I 'd already decided that I had to see you again , spend some time with you , and this was one way of doing it . ’ |
| 26 | I had decided that I had to have a partial confidant at the school . |
| 27 | I had decided that I had to face up to the fact that John might not come back or he might be gone for a long time and that when he did come back we might not love one another . |
| 28 | It was so carefully written that I 've read it three times and I do n't think it says anything . |
| 29 | It was not for some years after we had separated that I had to face the fact that the deepest part of one 's being is always inaccessible to another , and that only when we are lost in passion , eager above all else for our own gratification — yet unconscious that this is the case — that we ignore the gulf , forget that we are strangers . |
| 30 | ‘ Because it was felt that I had got to know you two a bit yesterday . |