Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] i [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I suppose was inevitable , the story gradually became that Eric would set fire to them , not just their pet dogs ; and , as was probably also inevitable , a lot of kids started to think that I was Eric , or that I got up to the same tricks . |
| 2 | I dreamed last night that I sat by a fire with Grandmother & my brother & when I woke up I still felt my brother 's hand . |
| 3 | Or when I come down with psychosomatic diseases so that my wife babies me and Huxley and Hooker fight all my battles . |
| 4 | It is compatible with Windows , but if you 've got Windows would you need another system of file management ? and is n't that where I came in ! |
| 5 | Except that I rang up James Barlow , Jenny 's friend , and asked if he could help me . " |
| 6 | Well , it 's , it 's simple that if I got up at half past six , and took him up a cup of tea at quarter too seven , and when he was around at seven o'clock , I was grilling bacon and I was frying eggs , and I hope , I do n't know whether perhaps it 's my cold , but , I , I just used to feel terribly unwell after he 'd gone , for about two hours and my legs were so wobbly , I was sitting down on the sofa , I may go back yet to cooking him breakfast if I feel like it , but , the , I mean if I can say to these chaps that , there are times when I do n't feel like doing things , well , I reckon Dave that they are so glad to be in that house with the central heating , with the twenty four hour er , er a day water , and the comfort , there not going to argue . |
| 7 | I clung hard to a sapling with my eyes closed , waiting for things to get better , telling myself that if I fell down again it would be much much much worse . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd always told myself that if I dried up creatively I 'd walk away from acting . |
| 9 | I knew even then that if I went on seeing you my days of freedom were numbered . |
| 10 | I reckoned , however , that if I went back to Edinburgh , I could see Leslie for the occasional ‘ forty-eight hours ’ . |
| 11 | Everyone I met kept apologising for the shabby state of the buildings and I had the feeling that if I went back in ten years ' time it would look like the set for some grand-scale horror film , all broken banging shutters and cobwebbed windows . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , I certainly find that if I sit down and play blues for forty-five minutes or an hour , it 's hard to get back into the rock feel . |
| 13 | I wondered if her presence was an invitation ; I felt that if I stretched out my hand to grasp hers she would have sat by me on the bed . |
| 14 | ‘ And I 'm frightened that if I go down to the cellars I might die . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 've a horrible feeling , ’ said Masklin , ‘ that if I go out there now , there will be something to eat , and it 'll be me . ’ |
| 16 | I felt that if I looked back early the mud pool would blush and say ‘ pardon ’ . |
| 17 | He said that if I found out , I would want to kill them both . |
| 18 | I just knew that if I flew back on Aeroflot , I would be stuck somewhere in the ex-USSR locked in a small cell with lots of sticky orange substance , trying to write some new country 's first entry into the Eurovision song contest . |
| 19 | I could always get Fenella or somebody to answer the phone and I was n't in the phone book , so I figured that if I chickened out , I could block her . |
| 20 | I know that if I broke down in my car , wherever I was in the country , whatever time of night it was , Pete would come to the rescue . |
| 21 | I found that if I settled down to the tape and the life of Apricot Smith , I became quite comfortable . |
| 22 | Added to which they all tend to wear the regulation uniform in class , complete with cap very often , so that and I stand out conspicuously in our light coloured and variegated clothes . |
| 23 | ‘ Dragging also depends on size , so if I pick up a bunch of stuff I get a lower dragging sound than if I pick up just one . |
| 24 | We can not sell the property in Kent to Mr Cooper as we had hoped and I fear that unless I go down there myself the business will languish . |
| 25 | If we if they were n't as quick as you are like that working that out what you could try is say well I 've given them one each there 's the four people one two three four right you 've all got a whole one so you can start eating that while I sort out how I 'm gon na share this out . |
| 26 | I knew he loved and needed me , but the fact that while I washed up , scrubbed , cleaned and tidied for us both he was making contact with people I had never met , would never meet , and whose names I did not know , formed a cloud over my days . |
| 27 | In fact , I told him that when I got back from this holiday he must come round and have a meal . |
| 28 | I know that when I get out I 'll make something of myself this time . ’ |
| 29 | I 'll tell him that when I get back in . |
| 30 | I was so struck with the place that when I came back to Le Court I told John that he ought to go there for a visit . |