Example sentences of "[adv] i [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The evening before , I had drunk a lot of good wine , and very luckily I had not made water since then . |
| 2 | I said she could have taken a degree in her spare time in th she 's only she 's not yet forty I said that 's absolute rubbish I said th the world is full of these damn women going around saying , if only I had n't had children I could have been Lord Chief Justice of England , I said , it is n't true ! |
| 3 | Only I did n't dare hope … ’ |
| 4 | Perhaps I had naively expected headlines of the HUMPHRY DAVY INVENTS MINERS ' SAFETY LAMP , ROSSINI WRITES FIRST OPERA , HENRY THOREAU BORN , kind of thing ! |
| 5 | So I went back to alight indicator , pulled down only a few inches , which was enough to allow the bream to suck the bait to their lips , and then I paused for a few seconds while I watched the line from the rod-tip tightening in the water . |
| 6 | perhaps I should n't of told you , so I said well look Timothy I said this is a conversation that has n't taken place I said when Christopher comes back in I said if you want to say anything you can , but feel free not to and we 'll just , if he comes we wo n't know anything about it |
| 7 | so I 'd never had blokes in my class , it was really really weird |
| 8 | So as we were going along she was just going into the paper shop and she was on her way up to the one o'clock bus , so I called in to see Jackie and had a coffee and then we come home . |
| 9 | I been flat on my back so I did n't go toilets and I 've got a sore bottom |
| 10 | Even if I might have wandered away from Piccadilly , I could n't have gone far , and anyway I did n't mind walking . |
| 11 | You just take one , I just my pal had a bad or something and she was prescribed er a se , a certain kind of sleeping tablet , Tamazapam and just I started in to say amounts up to twenty five at the end of the , do you know what I mean ? |
| 12 | Somehow I did n't see Miss Macdonald as Fourth Girl in a collective flat , and my instinct was right . |
| 13 | As a child I kept an unending diary ; as a student in Louisiana I wrote some tv news scripts ( and damaged the teleprompt during a live transmission , which put an end to that little job ) ; back home I produced beautifully worded advertisements for a local free paper . |
| 14 | What 's more I did n't realise Genesis was that type of band — I thought they were Black Sabbath ! |
| 15 | What 's more I did n't realise Genesis was that type of band — I thought they were Black Sabbath ! |
| 16 | Yes , right to , to and , and you could even go on farther , but I do n't think I ever went any further I did n't have time . |
| 17 | Coincidentally I 'd just told Malcolm that I was a bass player — although at this point I was only mucking around by myself at home — so Malcolm told them . |
| 18 | To think that a French woman should be so foolish she said , though I did n't like spiders or earwigs or moths or even snakes . |
| 19 | They brought him back as a Caretaker to General Manager and really I did n't see eye to eye with him . |
| 20 | By now I had almost convinced Rick to change to the boilie when I had another take on the Tropicana ; this was all the convincing he needed as I landed a nice mirror around the 12lb mark . |
| 21 | The King 's mail never seemed to catch up with him , and now I did n't want Charlie to find out what I had been up to until I had the chance to witness his reaction for myself . |
| 22 | Well I 'd better go June . |
| 23 | Well these tables he bought , well I had n't seen tables like that before , he bought them in Italy somewhere . |
| 24 | If a week of being looked after had gone such a fair way to turning me into a drivelling weakling , it was just as well I had n't let Dottie tempt me to any more of it . |
| 25 | Well I did n't demand job , nobody demands of John Smith . |
| 26 | Well I thought well I did n't want people going round there |
| 27 | Well I did n't get diarrhoea with it I just got sickness . |
| 28 | Then I went down to see Andy . |
| 29 | ‘ For a while , ’ he answered , ‘ and then I went out to have lunch with Bill . |
| 30 | And then I , then I popped down to see James . |