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 . |