Example sentences of "[subord] [conj] i [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Except that I heard you threaten to . ’ |
| 2 | Except that I thought you 'd understand — and perhaps I did think that you had a right to know why I feel the way I do about … about anything permanent . ’ |
| 3 | She thought , Now he 'll say what he was going to say last night , except that I made it hard for him , I was so unloving , so unresponsive . |
| 4 | I could n't tell how exactly , except that I found I could n't teach you so well . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't know no more , except that I helped him to hide in the hayloft . |
| 6 | ‘ Although if I knew them and I wanted a nice picture — smiling , arms around each other — I would call out to them , but not before I reached the third frame . ’ |
| 7 | No goals as yet in the other game in group A against Charlton although as I warned you earlier , I do n't think we 'll have that score for you tonight because it is being played in Italy and er our chances of getting that score through the er computer here are remote to put it mildly . |
| 8 | ‘ That makes it much more difficult , you know , than when I thought it was only me , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Mind you it does look better than when I saw it last . |
| 10 | so Sure Start rang him up and said how 's your car er Mr , he said it 's no better now than when I fetched it to you , three oil changes since and two months since and they said well what you gon na do about it ? |
| 11 | He 's mean , he 's moody and probably the coolest thing on the screen since James Dean thought , ‘ I wonder what it would look like if I pulled my collar up like this ’ . |
| 12 | I I have a I have a nasty suspicion that we could go on all day like this if if I allowed it to happen . |
| 13 | well if it is n't yeah , if we , if and I thought it was national account which means it 's a multi-locational site which it is |
| 14 | I 've hardly got any in cos when I left my nursery I got them all to do me one and when I left my school I got a load of them to do me one I did n't get many at the day nursery , but I got a handful . |
| 15 | Well it looked as cos when I picked it up , there 's a sort of thing was blown over , |
| 16 | Yeah , cos when I phoned she said she 's still quite interested . |
| 17 | Well I have done it this way even for trivial things , because I understood that the committee had to approve the changes and if as I said it seem to me erm , wasteful to get er , Monica to make the changes when they might not be accepted . |
| 18 | wo n't be worth going on the bus unless like I said you 've got a great load to carry but then that could be worked out on a Saturday morning , it would mean going down there , after Tesco 's that 's the only thing |
| 19 | Because although I hated it worse than anything , I did enjoy it too , once I got used to it . |
| 20 | But if I met , but then that 's slightly different because if I met someone in a nightclub or something like that then I would be quite wary . |
| 21 | But I think that 's the only thing were , if I worked in a benefit office I would n't get on very well , because if I saw something I 'd try and move heaven and earth to make everything to go right for me . |
| 22 | I had to sleep with it closed because if I left it open the cat would jump in and more likely than not land from ten feet on to my face — a nasty way to wake up . |
| 23 | She now leant across the counter and , poking her face down to the child 's , she said , ‘ No , I did n't Bobbie , because if I had you would n't have got half as much as is in that bag . |
| 24 | I ca n't remember my mother , because if I did I 'd hate her . |
| 25 | Because as I heard my mother speak Italian all the time and my cousins , you really ca can in my , you know in your |
| 26 | The dress ( the dress , because as I said she wore it every night ) was full length . |
| 27 | It 's personal because when I heard what had happened to young Leakey , I lost my rag . |
| 28 | I had to get up because when I walked I found it was easier . |
| 29 | The gentleman in question did exhibit a certain alarm because when I told him why I was looking at his land he thought it might lead to a conservation order being slapped on it . |
| 30 | I know he believed me because when I told him you went to Nice yesterday to buy more , he said he 'd seen you there . |