Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] i [vb infin] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 128 ) Other women — they only made me love you more . |
| 2 | There was every possible opportunity and we discussed it ; he was keen but not importunate , which naturally made me love him more and be more inclined to give him what he was so sweetly not insisting on , but something held me back . |
| 3 | ‘ But I began this without any hope whatsoever of winning the one thing I wanted above all others because I thought it was already given , and what I took in compensation merely made me want it more and resent its absence , because I kept loving you more and more . |
| 4 | ‘ I knew , the moment I put the phone down from making that call to England , that not only did I love you with every breath of my being , but there was no way that I could take your being married to anyone but me . ’ |
| 5 | So did I hear you say to your Mum that there 's gon na be a ra exactly the same rap at a |
| 6 | Oh ah yes I bought it in Did I bring you four ? |
| 7 | So have I , I 'm sorry , just made me count mine . |
| 8 | The 20th Century Fox logo always made me think we were about to see a war film , as the searchlights that had woken us in London in the blitz always preceded an air-raid . |
| 9 | He always made me feel I was doing something wrong . |
| 10 | This posture always made me suspect him of having a horizontal cleft slicing through his buttocks , betokening a random — but adaptive — mutation , taking humans closer to being office furniture . |
| 11 | She said well , tell Grant , she said he can have a reprieve , she said it 's May the eighth and , and she says , she probably heard me say it was Friday and that 's when I thought it was this Friday , so I had to phone erm the receptionist at daddy 's works , so she was going to pass on the message to daddy just to tell him just to work late as usual , Grant , rather than come in at teatime and then go back to work again . |
| 12 | ( 141 ) She just about made me carry her upstairs and then she clung to me … |
| 13 | get on 'em now did I tell ya ? |
| 14 | Well did I tell you we had to do this , I did tell you , we had to do this erm competition ? |
| 15 | Yeah , well did I leave you one of them catalogues with all the good tools ? |
| 16 | What are you saying well did I ring you ? |
| 17 | Well that 's right , yeah , cos then he asked me ages ago did I think he was being selfish , I said yes |
| 18 | really great it was , you know I did n't really think it would turn out as big as it has done you know , but it 's turned out beautiful has n't it really , yeah we was , I was thrilled especially when they built the new houses round the front we used to go and keep looking at them , little did I think I would get one , and the housing officer came one day and he said would you like one of the new ones , I said I would and it was four bedroom but we got , you see we 've got the other bedroom over my daughter-in-law 's , so me and hubby used to have the en right down a long passage and the bedroom was over like the sit you 've got a bedroom over the sitting room like see and she erm , we used to have so the children did n't make a noise to disturb her so my hubby and I had that room , yeah , it was quite nice it was , nice house , I erm , you know , enjoyed being there , bringing up the family , you want plenty of room you 've got a big family do n't you really ? |
| 19 | now how did I do it ? not like that obviously oh that 's it , I 'm getting a fifty percent success rate of whole ones to small ones here |
| 20 | How did I encompass it , this other-worldly emanation ? |
| 21 | My problem for God was , how did I get her to sign the form ? |
| 22 | ‘ How did I get it on my hand ? ’ she thought . |
| 23 | How did I know he was the world 's greatest ? |
| 24 | How did I know he was leadership stuff ? |
| 25 | How did I know she had nothing on under her dress ? |
| 26 | But how could she be so certain that her intention would be transparent to me , and how did I understand her meaning so accurately ? |
| 27 | But how could she be so certain that her intention would be transparent to me , and how did I understand her meaning so accurately ? |
| 28 | How did I see him then ? |
| 29 | ‘ How did I let it happen ? |
| 30 | Only then did I realize they were going to transport me up the mountain . |