Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] i [vb base] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have to get a bus at eight o'clock so I have to leave the house at twenty to eight . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've wanted to do much better than I 've done . |
| 3 | I 've also adopted the philosophy that I must develop somebody to do my job better than I have done it . |
| 4 | Ca n't say I 've learnt much although I 've started it again and again in the last two years . |
| 5 | pot it in once I 've got me boots . |
| 6 | Wo n't take me long once I get going its just the getting going bit busy day tomorrow have n't we ? |
| 7 | P. Oh , my worst day — get up , eat food , watch TV , sit in 'cause I 've got no money because I spent it all on Sunday , then off to work till 2am to earn more skating money . |
| 8 | Obviously cos I 've got the green ones oh |
| 9 | He is a media manipulator of genius , so adept at the mechanics of mass communication that he pauses mid-sentence when he sees that my cassette recorder has run out of tape , waiting patiently until I have inserted a new cassette before carrying on with what he was saying from exactly where he stopped . |
| 10 | Enough if I have shown that if we care to do so , we can illustrate the second as well as the first half of what I may call the Plowden proposition . |
| 11 | And if Oliver wants to see me — which might be a good idea if I can talk some sense into him — then I 'll only do so if I 've cleared it with Stuart first . |
| 12 | So if I 've got the number here , equals a hundred to the power half . |
| 13 | So if I 've got a customer that 's sending erm quite a lot of parcels but have got a |
| 14 | So if I do become slack , and I shall try not to , you will , I know , forgive as you always do . |
| 15 | Well Dorothy got er , some to knit something for Bryony and she actually got too much so if I do run out if I have n't enough to finish this er er vest , T-shirt summer top , whatever it 's called she 'll have some . |
| 16 | So if I have associated the right word — say , the word blue — with the right impression — the impression I get when I look at a cornflower — there is no fear of my language not mirroring reality as there is if I talk about fate or fortune , these not being words for simple ideas impressed on my mind by external objects . |
| 17 | If we 're adding a positive number , so if I say add plus three to a number , it 's the same as just adding them , okay ? |
| 18 | But it is poisonous so if I start smelling it I 'm going have to switch the cupboard on to suck the fumes away . |
| 19 | Now I had the choice of going first , , so if I choose to go first then you can choose the colours . . |
| 20 | Well I think so cos I have to write in the book , I have to put myself ! |
| 21 | Or perhaps because I 've lulled her with bedtime stories embroidering our favourite theme : once upon a time there was a girl named Gittel , who had a curse called down upon her … |
| 22 | Now , perhaps because I 've had a baby , friends talk to me about sex , or about their relationships with their boyfriends , where before they would n't . |
| 23 | Perhaps because I have proven I am no mere parasite , and have helped her knock out one dazzling 1,500-word column for Outsider in record time . |
| 24 | But the bank wo n't crash merely because I 've bought you a cup of tea and a few Carnival cakes . ’ |
| 25 | I 'm using it for Tottenham fair on third , second or third of er July , but only because I 've managed to get a P C enthusiastic about doing it and he 's gon na man it for the day . |
| 26 | ‘ No — but only because I 've got a long drive ahead of me . |
| 27 | Except that this condition clodhopped into view only because I intend to tell the unlipsticked truth to Gill . |
| 28 | No , nobody 's ever asked me , but I did say yes , but only because I want to believe it , I do n't care if the rest of you do n't , but I think its very important that you , you 've got the body that your born with and I think its very important just to go on with it and make the best of it . |
| 29 | I put this down only because I have heard her daughter 's friends call her ‘ mannish ’ , and her own generation ‘ monstrous ’ . |
| 30 | I venture to add a few observations of my own only because I have to confess to having been a somewhat reluctant convert to the notion that the words which Parliament has chosen to use in a statute for the expression of its will may fall to be construed or modified by reference to what individual members of Parliament may have said in the course of debate or discussion preceding the passage of the Bill into law . |