Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] i [verb] [to-vb] " 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 just heard that Katie here was in so I came to see when she 'd be back on duty , that 's all . |
| 3 | I was the only sane one , so although I hated to ask , I took the plunge . |
| 4 | Pennett was offered a one-season trial on Johnson 's recommendation , and says : ‘ It has so far gone better than I dared to hope . |
| 5 | No , I came to get a ticket for the literature festival but it was pouring down so I came to get out of the rain . |
| 6 | ‘ You 'd like it better if I tried to make people happy , would n't you ? |
| 7 | So if I went to talk to Jess |
| 8 | ‘ So if I went to see her … ? ’ he probed . |
| 9 | So if I wanted to find out erm Let's do that one with the the N H S , and this time I want to know how much it 's going to be It starts off at a hundred pounds . |
| 10 | Now I had the choice of going first , , so if I choose to go first then you can choose the colours . . |
| 11 | I would save some money and then I would find a man to marry me , especially if I promised to bring him to London . |
| 12 | Well I think so cos I have to write in the book , I have to put myself ! |
| 13 | I did n't put an evaluation in because I wanted to discuss it orally with my adviser . |
| 14 | ‘ I lied to her to get in because I needed to talk to you about your big gamble at Ascot . ’ |
| 15 | Except that this condition clodhopped into view only because I intend to tell the unlipsticked truth to Gill . |
| 16 | I was munching a meat pie and reading an early edition of the Standard when I saw them and then only because I happened to glance in the mirror . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ The Empress , and only because I refused to cower at her anger . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ Sit down because I need to tell you something . ’ |
| 21 | But I wo n't be off for long because I 've to follow Marcus . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ My weak spots are my right knee and lower back , but I wo n't let on much because I like to make out I am indestructible . ’ |
| 23 | I never said much because I wanted to keep my options open . |
| 24 | The words tumbled over each other in her eagerness. ‘ 'T WOULD only be for a day or so while I try to get a message to the Queen . |
| 25 | I left them together while I went to make some coffee , and when I came back into the room , Shanti was saying , ‘ Patsy , where do I get my big feet from ? |
| 26 | ‘ I wo n't look in before I go to see your Uncle Walter in the morning . |
| 27 | I heard about them long before I came to live here . |
| 28 | It was not very long before I came to see it as simply one fad among others . |
| 29 | Long before I came to know north west Scotland I read an article in a yachting journal about sailing and climbing in the mountainous fiords of Norway . |
| 30 | I thought then that , much as I longed to see him , it might be as well to start hoping he would n't come back until I could truthfully tell him there would be no baby . |