Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [conj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had just had my forty-first birthday and had been going through a very unhappy time , not eating properly because I was economizing so much , and becoming properly run down . |
| 2 | ‘ At 13 or 14 , I should have been taken away from my family and placed somewhere where I would have felt loved and like a real person . ’ |
| 3 | And er I was n't eating right because I just did n't feel hungry I did n't bother about food I just seemed to keep going and keep going . |
| 4 | ‘ I can not eat properly and I ca n't sleep before a round , I get very nervous . |
| 5 | ‘ Who did you say you were looking for ? ’ she asked suspiciously as I pulled up a weatherbeaten bus seat . |
| 6 | ‘ When I am in the car I am competing professionally and I commit myself to the job . |
| 7 | er and in any , in any event there are a number of things I tend to miss altogether if I want to er keep to timetable which I and I , I 'm sure you 're , all the , the audience or group or whatever you like to call it that will welcome an extension of the talk . |
| 8 | In paragraph four , page six , we do make a small point about the financial implications er on of course that has been resolved because of er the resolution carried forward in the budget debate and a note there about central training which I could er just , just explain slowly because I have had a number of questions about this . |
| 9 | not with squirrels , no er I do n't think so but I mean you , you might be able to do something with a vole , or something like that and trap them but I 'm just wondering Stefan could it also be a fox ? |
| 10 | I do n't think so and I I find it difficult to believe and disappointing to believe that as many man are would deliberately spoil their vote . |
| 11 | No I do n't think so cos I 've never took that with me . |
| 12 | I do n't think so when I went to let him in he 'd pulled himself up round the patio and looked as though he expected to be walloped for being silly he 's taken us this morning . |
| 13 | I do n't think so because I 'm not really like that and people who know me know that I 'm not like that . |
| 14 | It was better than the other one , it might of been the seats but I do n't think so because I mean there was so much in this one |
| 15 | I would think so as I would have think so . |
| 16 | The cause had to be lack of food , the mints I 'd had earlier had obviously worn off , but , soft-hearted fool that I am , I was trying to wait so that me and the invalid could sit and break bread together . |
| 17 | Some sort of canvas covers that can be stripped so that I 'm Luftwaffe again for the trip back . ’ |
| 18 | Mrs Fishfinger 's Koi — they eat better than I do … |
| 19 | ‘ He asked especially that I should meet you . ’ |
| 20 | I had to wait impatiently till I was free to go down there , and huddled uncomfortably among the book-stacks I turned up the page with trembling fingers . |
| 21 | The only good thing , the only good thing about La the only good thing about Labour is that they would have brought back student grants so if I ever , if I ever do go to university then I 'll get lots of money . |
| 22 | Then I got so that I could not be bothered . |
| 23 | It does hurt so and I 'm not sure how much longer I can bear the pain . |
| 24 | And if people mention obstructions I 'll make sure I find out exactly what they mean so that I can identify the threshold of the runway correctly . |
| 25 | It 's kind of late now and I 'm in no condition to drive so when I get the 205 I only take it as far as the outskirts of Inverness where I stop at the first lit Bed and Breakfast sign I see and talk politely and slowly to the pleasant middle-aged couple from Glasgow who run the place and then say goodnight , close the door of my room and fall fast asleep on the bed without even taking off my jacket . |
| 26 | The beach is all mine but I can not stay long for I lack a senorita to oil my back . |
| 27 | But the two struggles , for national liberation and against patriarchy , have to go together and I think that 's what went wrong in Ireland , when we got our pseudo independence . |
| 28 | Maybe they both happened at once but from that moment everything was dreamlike and wonderful , I lost count of time as I sat there while the breathing became deep and regular and the animal began to he aware of his surroundings ; and by the time he started to look around him and twitch his tail tentatively I realized suddenly that I was stiff-jointed and almost frozen to the spot . |
| 29 | And then , of course , I was n't able to attend much when I was left on my own after Mother and Uncle Tommy died and I had all the milking and farmwork to do myself . |
| 30 | My legs dithered weakly and I was breathless . |