Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [subord] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On orders from the new Earl , my visits to the house were to be permitted only if I agreed to be supervised . |
| 2 | ‘ I tend to get carried away when I 've drunk a wee bit too much . |
| 3 | Well I should 've won anyway because I 've got sixes and fives . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd never have come here if I 'd known … ’ |
| 5 | I could 've come earlier cos I 've been over Tracey 's since quarter past one , as I was coming out the Jehovah Witnesses were coming out |
| 6 | The latest and most thorough had been completed just before I took over the chairman-ship . |
| 7 | Opinions about timetabling motions have altered massively since I took over the chairmanship of the Select Committee on Procedure nearly nine years ago . |
| 8 | The only grass that 's well cut is where people cut it themselves outside their own house but , in particular , erm , th I would like to see the supervision of the contract and that we do n't cough up the money unless the job 's done properly because I think we 're paying for a job that 's not being either done at all , or when it is being done it 's not being done well . |
| 9 | For the first time in all my life I had done right because I wanted to do right . |
| 10 | As is well known , he wrote in the ‘ Foreword ’ to the second edition : ‘ I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations , and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence . ’ |
| 11 | I think I could have done better if I had a different attitude , ’ she said . |
| 12 | ‘ I have been around too long to take anything for granted so when I saw which way the wind was blowing I just buckled down and got on with playing . ’ |
| 13 | ( I subsequently had ( 27 April ) a site meeting with an EGBT official , who completed a proposal form on the spot — however , the funding aspects are not my main concern here ; suffice it to say , 1 ) that I have always been confident that funding would be secured from one source or another , and 2 ) that my direct approach to SNH was done only because I had indications that their project approvals took months rather than weeks — something I have subsequently been assured is not true ) . |
| 14 | I did not date the typed copy I made — for Dana could not or would not type , and after we had finished a poem to our common satisfaction , I had to type it out while he rested on the bed — but I am fairly certain it was written soon after I met Dana in that Spanish class for foreigners , which I have noted in my 1957 Letts Diary : ‘ Wednesday , October 16 . |
| 15 | Only the pain was getting rather tedious and Meg insisted that I had it done now before I retired , on the theory I suppose , that better in the Government 's time than my own . " |
| 16 | My sister Ellen , sir , who has had charge of my first-born this three long years , her husband William died of blood poisoning in September and she is now alone and I have written even before I heard of the plan to go to Rome to beg her to come out here to me with Oreste and if she does , as I think she will , having no other family or ties , then she might look after my house and other child for the winter and we would all profit without further trouble . ’ |
| 17 | The the Council looking at the whole process of how it spends it money what it does , I think the theatre the start of this evening we were looking quite close about what we do and how we do it what we do n't do and what we should do and I think from what 's been said this evening will be re look closely the questions you 've raised things that you 've raised we 'll report it back to you in the hope of this meeting that we 'll actually moved forward because I think it 's in everybody interest everybody 's interest if the playhouse closes . |
| 18 | By some miracle , the 2CV had n't been towed away when I 'd finally dragged Ash out ; we 'd made it to the M1 , picked up a hitcher and — rather beyond the call of duty , I 'd have said — dropped him where he was going , in Coventry . |
| 19 | It 's only been cleaned once since I 've had , and it 's been down er , since nineteen |
| 20 | Once his tongue was loosened , I knew I was going to be told more than I wanted to know about Jean-Claude 's past . |
| 21 | Not that any of my family could be that certain of the exact day on which I was born , on account of the fact that my old man had spent the night in gaol and my mother had died even before I drew breath . |
| 22 | I thought they might have got here before I did . ’ |
| 23 | Honestly , Les , this team is the biggest load of rubbish we have had here since I 've been a supporter and I started before the war , so I know what I am talking about . |
| 24 | The organisers saw Morse drinking beer all the time on television and thought even if I did n't know anything about the quality of beer I must be a quantity man . |
| 25 | Bob , 39 , said : ‘ Robert would have been a goner if I had n't got there when I did . |
| 26 | The move has also helped financially because I made a profit on the house sale , and as this one is smaller the bills are much lower . |
| 27 | Some of us have to work for our living , I 'd never have got anywhere if I 'd moved at your pace ! ’ |
| 28 | They never get aired properly if I do n't do it myself . |
| 29 | Carson looked at her blankly , and she went on , ‘ I 've stayed longer than I intended . ’ |
| 30 | As it is , I 've stayed longer than I intended . ’ |