Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] i [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I pictured doing an impossible thing — I thought that if I got too close to coming , I could somehow angle my leg and contort it so that I caught hold of my cock in my bent knee and squeezed it like a nut in a nutcracker until it stopped wanting to come . ’
2 There is a mystic , psychic quality about them that is pleasantly disturbing , and often one of them will gently take my hand and gaze steadily into my eyes as if willing me better and I feel sort of honoured to be welcomed into their society .
3 But I thought if that 's how they run a business So then when they , they moved house I realized they were using an ordinary saucepan to do their chips in and I had visions of fat boiling over and cos it 's gas so I bought them one a very nice deep fryer as a housewarming present .
4 But I , I say if I get sh publicity I er if I say do , if I say cos we have n't got a premium lager on draft so if I stick Stella on draught
5 So if I put X minus two on the top ?
6 Well when I was last playing with it that James kept on er in and in that erm he stopped at the station and I have to take it like that far enough cos I wanted Gordon to be there so he co could pick up the express pick , up the coaches
7 It 's so long since I had people to dinner .
8 ‘ It 's a two-way thing : I had those feelings long before I wrote drafts for the script , but the process of writing and research inflamed them .
9 My first real fear came only when I caught sight of Tandri 's face watching his five strongest crewmen hanging miserably to the mainstay of our rotten mast .
10 So when I left school at 17 to become a hairdresser , I was lovely and slim .
11 So when I tackled Mr about it he said , Oh we must maintain our customers .
12 It may have disappointed the fearless patriot , Mickey Spillane , who wrote these lines for his detective , Mike Hammer , in One Lonely Night ( 1951 — sales three million ) : ‘ I killed more people tonight than I have fingers on my hands .
13 You said exactly that I quote word for word in November nineteen ninety and a week later what happened ?
14 Well not not if I have salad on it , anyway .
15 Not until I took control of her affairs — and , in any case , I would still have looked after her — ’
16 I turned him over and I got blood on me . ’
17 I would never eat their meat out there anyway cos I think pony in it
18 In fact I usually take things easy until I have dinner at seven with the Smiths .
19 The last time I saw Teddy was one morning shortly before I left Huntingdon for my next posting .
20 The reappraisal comes , incidentally , just after I drew attention to Emma Tennant 's forthcoming biography , which makes some play of Hardy 's relationship with an actress 60 years his junior .
21 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 .
22 They are but not as I saw things at the time — I did n't think I would marry .
23 I have no knowledge of its contents , but was instructed to send it to you as soon as I heard news of Mr Steen 's death .
24 As soon as I set foot in there , I knew that I had to be involved somehow .
25 You were mine — I knew that as soon as I set eyes on you .
26 But as soon as I set eyes on you all rational thought deserted me .
27 For a start , right , erm all her clothes then right and I mean loads of them are ones they 're really horrible like but she just hangs them here , I thought well you ca n't wear them , you know , all horrible , you do n't wear them fold them , put them away
28 ‘ I feel very strongly for our community as a whole more than I feel resentment for this man .
29 We closed rapidly and I opened fire at about 800 yards sighting a little high at first to allow for the distance and then dropping my bead to centre on the machine .
30 Old Warleigh would laugh his head off if I put reasons like that to him .
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