Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] i [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps I 'm a chocolate moulder , or a poodle-clipper , or maybe I paint water-colours like those on the wall over there . ’ |
| 2 | Climbing the steep mountain roads round hairpin bends was quite dramatic and more than once I had glimpses of distant eagles . |
| 3 | I find that nowadays I prefer cats to dogs . ’ |
| 4 | Some of the sound tests were done by a computer and luckily I had access to a computer from my dealer in Bath that enabled me to set the sound up perfectly . |
| 5 | And eventually I got job on a scaffold . |
| 6 | And suddenly I caught sight of this … prat sailing down the Cam back towards Cambridge in a punt , with a girl doing all the work , while he reclined at the exact angle , trying to play a chord and strum a tune … |
| 7 | This emerges in the form of a dreary Swedish mantra along the lines of ‘ He tried to beat mee , but I beat heem , and so I won Weembledon for the first time . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The things I could do if only I had oodles of cash , ’ she added with an intense longing . |
| 9 | But I was worried , and somehow I had inside of me this feeling that something was going to happen . |
| 10 | ‘ A rum fellow , ’ the doctor had said , ‘ if ever I clapped eyes on one . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll break his neck if ever I get hold of him , ’ said Len , looking fiercely round the teashop . |
| 12 | On 6 November I saw a delegation of small business men who had been customers of BCCI , and yesterday I saw representatives of the BCCI depositors protection association . |
| 13 | The voices grew louder , and presently I caught sight of the men as they rounded a sharp bend … . |
| 14 | I could n't see anything , and I thought I 'd been stung by ants , but the knee became swollen and blistered and then I noticed tracks like blisters crawling up my leg from my knee , and over the course of months they went crawling up and up and round my leg — terrifying ! |
| 15 | And then I took pity on him and lent him forty . |
| 16 | You could get an extension , if you asked permission , on Saturday nights for a special occasion such as a dance , and then I met John at the carnival in Middleton . |
| 17 | And then I stopped farming in nineteen seventy cut it till sixty nine . |
| 18 | Yeah but I get really pissed off as well cos I well I , I wo n't like when I 'm with other people like and I talk about other pe like when I talk about Jenny and then I feel sort of like really two faced when I like start talking to Jenny and stuff . |
| 19 | I go shopping every day , and by the time I come back it 's usually time for the baby to have her food at about twelve — and then she usually sleeps till about two , and then I cook lunch for him [ the two-year-old ] so that in the evening it 's a tea , although it 's usually a cooked tea . |
| 20 | Javier Clemente , Spain 's new manager , says : ‘ Everybody knows how I admire English football and how I wanted Wembley as the perfect place for my debut match . ’ |
| 21 | I 've put report down there , cos then you have science , report math 's , report and I put Ralph Gardener Community High School cos then I need space for community . |
| 22 | But once or twice in a while I would despair of producing the kind of thing that seemed likely to win approval from one whose standards were so high — impossibly high I felt so far as emulation on my part was concerned — and therefore I had moods in which I would feel unworthy of his attention . |
| 23 | But now I play tennis like a true professional . |
| 24 | But then I met people like André , people in that world who recognised my beauty and that kind of validated me . |
| 25 | However , if I actually wanted to come along and learn some English — I did ‘ O ’ level English , I enjoyed it immensely , but then I did science in the sixth for and went on to a science career — can I come and study English at your school ? |
| 26 | When eventually I got hold of him , I told him to stop making payments into my French bank account . |
| 27 | At least I did not recognize her ; but then she was such a shrinking , washed-out-creature — when later I had lunch with one of Eliot 's former doctors he described her as ‘ an ugly little thing ’ , which was rather unkind and hardly accurate — that she could easily have escaped notice . |