Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew it must be wrong , because afterwards he made me promise not to tell anyone about it , not even Mamma . |
| 2 | See I 've just said something er , they 'd be quite happy with that I should think , yeah it 's running now |
| 3 | I still remember him , after all those years , as one of the best-looking men I ever saw I 've never loved anyone in the same way since . |
| 4 | I mean still use one |
| 5 | She said today : ‘ I lay there thinking someone must have got there before me . ’ |
| 6 | Dear Boy , It must be very difficult for you sometimes I expect not having anyone and having to do all the shopping and cooking for yourself I know that when I was working I certainly could not have managed on my own , coming home tired and then making dinner your own dinner and then going upstairs to do some more work , what sort of life is that , though I know all about that because of course I did do that for three years almost , and I know how much happier I was when I knew there was someone waiting for me and having the dinner ready and keeping the house clean and all those things , or perhaps you people do n't think those things are important . |
| 7 | I was gardening and he said er er I bent over to do something and he said I just went dizzy , he said , and I fell over he said and then I realized my right side was paralysed . |
| 8 | I 'd even driven one once — a mad bass guitarist friend of mine , who 'd hit the minor big league with a couple of records , bought three of them to race around the M25 orbital motorway . |
| 9 | And I thought at the time , oh I 'd not done anything about it , |
| 10 | And there was a neurosis and an anxiety involved around doing that solo record for me , because I 'd never done one before and I did n't know if I could actually pull it off . |
| 11 | I 'd seen a couple of caesarian sections , but I 'd never done one or been shown how . |
| 12 | I 'd never done anything like that before . |
| 13 | I 'd never done anything like it before . |
| 14 | I 'd never done anything like that before . |
| 15 | I 'd never seen anything like it before . |
| 16 | I 'd never seen anything like it . |
| 17 | I 'd never seen anything like it . ’ |
| 18 | I 'd never seen anything like it . |
| 19 | ‘ I could n't believe it — I 'd never seen anything like it before , ’ he said . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'd never seen anything quite as stimulating as this in the English theatre . |
| 21 | Well it was n't surprising really ; I 'd never filled one in . |
| 22 | ‘ I was really nervous because I 'd never kissed anybody and she was really nice . |
| 23 | But I 'd never met anyone quite like her before , you see . |
| 24 | I came home quite convinced that I 'd never met anyone since that I had had the same feeling for . |
| 25 | I 'd never met anyone so ambitious and as single-minded . |
| 26 | I 'd never met anyone like you , and the fact that there was a rumour that you were newly in mourning for your father just added to the mystique , because I was young enough to find tragedy romantic . ’ |
| 27 | As far as lab work went , I always felt very intimidated because I 'd never touched anything more technical than a hairdryer , and all these boys around me were confidently plugging in their oscilloscopes , because I mean , I suppose they had their train sets and that sort of thing , and I was very scared to plug things in , in case they blew up . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'd never felt anything like it in my life , ’ she confessed . |
| 29 | I 'd never heard anything like that before . |
| 30 | Several times in fact , once on the tube train , twice on the ordinary trains , so it was n't the pictures that upset me — Doc Keylock had explained all that years ago , it 's all to do with the panting , what they call hyperventilation , causing a temporary malfunction in the brain — but I 'd never had anything as vivid as the memory I 'd just been through . |