Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] i [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only got I only got |
| 2 | He was shaken , but unhurt , and merely ordered me not to say a word . |
| 3 | My family constantly warned me not to go into catering . |
| 4 | I was afraid of getting an arrow in my eyes , but I suddenly remembered I still had an old pair of reading glasses in my pocket , so I put them on and continued my work . |
| 5 | Not only did I not want surgery or drugs , but I hoped that in refusing them I would not be offending my surgeon ! |
| 6 | Not only did I not know how the apple had come to be on the bookcase , or in the house for that matter ; but how could it be perfect in every way . |
| 7 | Taking the binoculars from round my neck , I proffered them , saying , ‘ You observe how amateur my lurking was — not only did I not conceal myself , but I did not use my chief lurking weapon . |
| 8 | Incidents such as this , and there were many more than I have recorded , could have worn me down had I not taken an almost fatalistic view . |
| 9 | I told myself that not only had I not had a choice , but that in fact I had n't really needed to make one . |
| 10 | and Richard goes no Rebecca just told me not to do it , so you should n't |
| 11 | as things cropped up at the time she just showed me how to do it , and I just picked it from there . |
| 12 | I just grabbed I just granted granted his wish and I |
| 13 | His mouth opened and closed while portraits of notables revolved on some sort of belt contraption behind him and my mind strayed to Phil Collins 's story about the time he went up and asked Steve Davis for an autograph : ‘ He did n't even glance at me , just sent me off to get a pen , and then signed his name , still without looking at me . |
| 14 | Yeah er attractive , anyway what was I saying , I was talking to her and she said that she 'd had a talk with Foxy and Foxy had said excuse me , and I just felt I just felt so paranoid because she was saying , talking about all the , how he 'd never been faithful to anyone and how , and I really did feel , would n't you feel awful if everyone was saying oh Sal , yeah , Sal , Sal 's making a real effort but but no she said |
| 15 | It was sweet of you to go ; I just thought I better get something but once these attacks start it 's a bit too late to take anything really . |
| 16 | I sa , I said I just went I just said to her look Hannah you do n't have to come in the car ! |
| 17 | And I was fortunate : no one ever stopped me either to ask me for my identity card or to see what I had in my bag . |
| 18 | ‘ Such a strange-looking man , I 've always thought … khikhikhi … my father always told me not to trust men with beards . |
| 19 | I remember he once told me not to move the head too much as it weighs 22lbs . |
| 20 | Their teeth and jaws can inflict such damage that an expert fisherman once told me never to put a finger in even a dead pikes ' mouth . |
| 21 | I ONCE mentioned to a local farmer that my grandfather had been born in the little fishing village of Staxigoe , to the north of Wick in Caithness , and he quickly warned me not to go about repeating the story , because of the supposedly dubious reputation the natives of Staxigoe have earned themselves down the ages . |
| 22 | Another good lesson came in the shape of a small bent old lady , with moth-eaten woollen gloves , who always singled me out to serve her with a dozen cracked eggs that were extremely cheap . |
| 23 | My dad always brought me up saying you never lay a finger on a woman , never ever . |
| 24 | In the seven years we lived there , only once did I ever meet another fisherman on my favourite part of the river ; and over the years I came to know the South Tyne and its wildlife as well as Mole or Rat in Wind and the Willows ever knew their water . |
| 25 | Out of the hundreds of people I interviewed , only once did I genuinely fear for my job . |
| 26 | ‘ I always said I only wanted to score goals for Manchester United . |
| 27 | I spent a long time diving frantically after them , jamming the sheet at a bunch only to see half of them streaking out the other end , and I might have gone on indefinitely had I not felt a gentle touch on my arm . |
| 28 | I always regretted I never trained . |
| 29 | She also implored me not to contact her family . |
| 30 | As a permanent secretary in the Department of the Environment I was an accounting officer , which meant as a civil servant I was responsible directly to parliament , which also meant I regularly had to go before the Public Accounts Committee . |