Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which meant I probably was like awake to start with , because I , although I got up at seven , I still was n't ready to go to bed at eleven , cos it was still too early , and usually I go to bed about two . |
| 2 | I was shocked , angry and frightened and , although I walked out of that courtroom with my life in pieces , there was nobody there to help me . |
| 3 | His self defence , and I now read from actually only a paragraph or so earlier than my opening passage , his self defence in the reason of Church government is quite interesting erm ‘ If I hunted after praise by the ostentation of wit and learning , I should not write thus out of mine own season , when I have neither yet completed to my mind the full circle of my private studies , although I complain not of any insufficiency to the matter in hand , or were I ready to my wishes it were a folly to commit anything elaborately composed to the careless and interrupted listening of these tumultuous times . |
| 4 | I was instructed to leave my prejudices behind and simply concentrate on having a good time , so I set off with that one idea in mind . |
| 5 | I 'd guessed that Downes wanted to go back to his car to hide something , so I played along with all that hearing-aid rubbish . |
| 6 | ‘ So I got away with that all right . |
| 7 | The Plaza cinema had columns outside it , so I got there at ten to six , got behind the pillar and thought , ‘ If I do n't fancy her when I see her , I wo n't come out . ’ |
| 8 | I had to do something to keep my flat going and everything , so I got in with these girls , working girls . |
| 9 | However , I find yoga a bit slow and I like to exercise to music , so I moved on to popmobility-type aerobics which I named ‘ slimobility ’ . |
| 10 | But you 'd left your kitchen window open , so I climbed in through that . ’ |
| 11 | I had not worked before as a waitress so I ended up with most of the easy jobs like washing up and cleaning left overs from the plates ! |
| 12 | Yes no I think once I turned round in that way and I would n't |
| 13 | Well I do n't know , there are such good Japanese coupes now , you know you see these lovely Toyotas and Nissans that they do the sort of two plus two and they 're really lovely cars and but if I change c car this next year I 'll still have to have four seater or , you know , plenty of room in the boot so I can pick you up from Haileybury and all that crap , but if I hung on for another two years I could then get something I actually wanted , you know . |
| 14 | But there was this fear that I 'd become a junkie if I hung out with these people . |
| 15 | If I hold on to these things they go , and if I let go of them they go , and so my life goes . |
| 16 | But if I remember correctly on one of the progr on television going back sort of two three months ago , one of the firms , and I think it was an electrical firm , was working a bit of a swift one erm they were getting people to sign a document which purported I think to be erm l l loaning money , hire agreement . |
| 17 | If I go on like this you wo n't want to meet me . |
| 18 | But , honestly , I think we 'll just be wasting time if I go on like this . ’ |
| 19 | Well if I go on like this we 'll be getting another bag next week ! |
| 20 | ‘ If I go up to one-twenty , will that help you make up your mind ? ’ |
| 21 | Well , it 's , it 's simple that if I got up at half past six , and took him up a cup of tea at quarter too seven , and when he was around at seven o'clock , I was grilling bacon and I was frying eggs , and I hope , I do n't know whether perhaps it 's my cold , but , I , I just used to feel terribly unwell after he 'd gone , for about two hours and my legs were so wobbly , I was sitting down on the sofa , I may go back yet to cooking him breakfast if I feel like it , but , the , I mean if I can say to these chaps that , there are times when I do n't feel like doing things , well , I reckon Dave that they are so glad to be in that house with the central heating , with the twenty four hour er , er a day water , and the comfort , there not going to argue . |
| 22 | No do n't , I shall , if I 'm home by , only if I got back by five , I , I better |
| 23 | If I , if I get up at seven |
| 24 | I think if I get up at half five in the morning Jean , I 'll go to the park . |
| 25 | If I get home at 12.30 I probably wo n't want to go down a club , but I 'll pull a beer out of the fridge , sit down and have a laugh at everybody else making pillocks of themselves , including the prat who calls him self the Hitman . |
| 26 | If I get out of this , I shall never be the same . |
| 27 | Smith has been dismissed as ‘ presence of mind Smith ’ from his alleged remark on returning without his companion from a disastrous outing on the river : ‘ If I had not with great presence of mind hit him on the head with a boathook both would have been drowned , ’ but the story comes from Reminiscences of Oxford ( 1st edn. 1900 ) by William Tuckwell , who in his second edition ( 1907 ) consigned it to oblivion ; moreover , there was no charge of murder . |
| 28 | You wish to think all the world respectable , and are hurt if I speak ill of any body . |
| 29 | If I went on like this , I would fulfil the gloomiest fears of Bill Baudelaire , the Brigadier and , above all , John Millington . |
| 30 | Yes , but beating , I smoke sixty cigarettes a day and I would n't care just now , if I went up to twenty stone ! |