Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Bob said to me where I bought it from , he said I do n't think it would survive the winter because it comes from the Scilly Isles which is warmer . |
| 2 | Mr. Rifkind did not reply to my letter although I addressed it to him personally at the House of Commons … |
| 3 | ‘ How you have heard of my story , I do not know , for it lies unfinished upstairs , although I began it in May . |
| 4 | and that was my Barclaycard number in case you want it although I ordered it through the thr phone I made out that so that I could read it off on the telephone I did n't even erm I did n't even assemble it I just looked and I saw it does n't chop I thought it would chop things but does n't , it only grates Looks as though it had been out before , you know , you look at this ! |
| 5 | Although I left him in no doubts about my opinion of his behaviour over the past few weeks , I was n't quite as brutal with him as I might have been . |
| 6 | A cream-coloured dress of mine got covered with rust and , although I soaked it in biological liquid , it did n't get rid of the stain . |
| 7 | I would never have dared speak so , but she was quite unselfconscious , although I suspected her of an intention to shock — to shock me as much as anyone . |
| 8 | Well , you 're a bigger fool than I took you for . ’ |
| 9 | I 've been lucky : Scathach has returned only four years older than I expected him to be . ’ |
| 10 | was more valuable than I expected it to be ; |
| 11 | So I do n't know about anybody else but that 's cheaper than I expected it to be . |
| 12 | He said the idea of a single currency was ‘ even less realistic than I believed it to be nine months ago ’ . |
| 13 | It came out more vehemently than I meant it to . |
| 14 | Obvious efforts are being made here to reduce the damage , which was much worse than I remembered it from a previous visit . |
| 15 | ‘ I was n't going to unroll the damn things , ’ continued Lydia , ‘ so I banged them in the oven , humming insouciantly the while and served them up all bubbling hot . |
| 16 | ‘ They asked for an appointment , so I arranged it for this afternoon . |
| 17 | I admit that I 'm as much to blame , I should have come to visit her , but I understood her mother was never off the doorstep , so I left her to it . |
| 18 | I was called away to the hospital so I left her at the house waiting for Nigel to turn up to collect her . ’ |
| 19 | I knew she might get it wrong , so I spelled it for her , ’ Paul says . |
| 20 | ‘ Mike thrust them at me before I left , so I brought them with me . |
| 21 | Although it was late and Mr Edgar was tired after his journey , Joseph insisted , so I took him to the master 's room . |
| 22 | Soon after I got him I noticed a lump under his tummy , so I took him for a thorough check-up . |
| 23 | He would n't take it , so I pressed it on Felix instead . |
| 24 | ‘ Until recently , ’ Carl said , ‘ there were no provisions for new ideas , so I kept them in my files until a need arose . |
| 25 | Vera 's not back from lunch , so I kept it at the desk . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ He 'd never taken a woman on any of his expeditions before , so I nagged him for about a week and used all my female charm . |
| 27 | I got quite a lot of reading done — John managed to persuade one of the nice Italian staff at the British Council Library to let me have two more books than my five allowed , so I had them on her ticket ! |
| 28 | ’ So I waltzed him across the road and put him in a doorway and left him for somebody else to find . |
| 29 | ‘ Do n't say anything , but I saw Bob Lamb going along the beck , so I sent her off that way , too . |
| 30 | At this point I thought she might be distracted by the kid whose chair was sticking out , so I asked him for a second time to move back even further . |