Example sentences of "[vb pp] [subord] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My flower — the one that I remember best out of many — was gathered where I said it had been . |
| 2 | The crowd gave a good send-off to the latter when he was substituted so I suppose he did well . |
| 3 | I want to look dark and menacing ; the way I ought to look , the way I should look , the way I might have looked if I had n't had my little accident . |
| 4 | Nothing you had done , or said , would have mattered if I had n't . |
| 5 | — He 'll have panicked if I know him , that Warden . |
| 6 | The problem with my files would have been solved if I had been using an IBM machine — but they were way beyond my price range when I bought my first computer . |
| 7 | Far from looking cool I must have looked like I 'd done a packet in my trousers . |
| 8 | ’ ‘ I would n't have come , ’ said the soldier , who would not have missed it for worlds , ‘ I would n't have come if I 'd known there would be Druids squashing and glooming . |
| 9 | and he just said oh I 'm so sorry he said I would n't have come if I had known , but there was a massive wreath in the garden where that girl was knocked over |
| 10 | ‘ I should be mortified if I thought I 'd missed a chance to do him a mischief , but it 'd be a cold day in hell before I 'd make a spectacle of myself in the market place . ’ |
| 11 | She has always had this dream that I would make it to university and she will be devastated if I do n't continue , but the way I am feeling now , I do n't want to . |
| 12 | The former can do no more than skim the surface of an area which has recently been very heavily mined ; the latter is included because I think that this theory , though recent , is more than a passing fashion and contains some insights into the nature of knowledge . |
| 13 | Actually , on stage it 's also mixed because I put one Fender cab on top and a Marshall cab on the bottom and then a Marshall cab on top and a Fender cab on the bottom . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm definitely less stressed because I do n't have to do the four things I was no good at — timesheets , billing , chasing debtors and doing my expenses ! ’ |
| 15 | Merry Widows were added because I wanted a live-bearer that was n't the standard Guppy , Molly or Swordtail . |
| 16 | Not to sort of well you , you ca n't be blamed because I mean yo , in the innocent you were actually going because of the concert . |
| 17 | eighty nine thousand , I need another go round and another thousand pound and I 've won because I 've got me two thingybobs |
| 18 | My standards have definitely dropped since I 've been at home with the baby . |
| 19 | I already had permission to search all the surrounding fields , so I waited until the field was harvested before I gave it a thorough going over with my detector . |
| 20 | er , we 'll get it all sorted , you know what you like , you sit there and you think oh I want it , to get it all sorted before I go and move , it 'll just have to be in a tip for a while . |
| 21 | " Father — is it possible — is it possible that Jennifer and me could be wed before I go with you ? " |
| 22 | bit here and I thought god that so I thought right I 'm gon na change places in that seat but your father 's sitting on , alright , I said go in that back seat , just behind us there were there or I said or I 'm just coming to sit where you are , I said I ca n't do four hours sitting like this , I mean I 'd have been boss eyed before I got , well I was I , I , all say look at that cloud |
| 23 | I would have been boss eyed before I got out of Lynn , I could feel it you know , squint through |
| 24 | ‘ I had rather expected before I went that I might not be taken seriously as a woman . |
| 25 | Switchboard is still almost as white dominated as it was male dominated when I joined . |
| 26 | ‘ I was profoundly unnerved when I read the screenplay ; quite shaking with fear and disturbance . |
| 27 | She stared at the rim of her cup and said tonelessly , ‘ As you 'll have gathered , I was — devastated when I heard Elise had died . |
| 28 | She was silent for a moment , and my stomach clenched as I saw her face soften , her eyes grow dreamy . |
| 29 | Unless there is a particular problem I would propose to delay altering the stops until moving the shelter can be organised as I think it would be confusing , not to say unpopular , to do otherwise . |
| 30 | A tribe of stray cats scattered as I turned into the yard where Ellen 's apartment lay . |