Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] i [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | It 's because I like the way the note A sounds on the top string better than I do on the second , but I like A on the second string better than I do on the third , and so on . |
2 | It 's because I like the way the note A sounds on the top string better than I do on the second , but I like A on the second string better than I do on the third , and so on . |
3 | For that flicker of uncertainty , I begin to like her again , better than I have since the days of the Great Succubus Strike . |
4 | In some places there were nagging clouds of black flies , so that I climbed through the trees like a new Orestes , cursing and slapping . |
5 | It was some time after ten o'clock that I strolled through the gate on to the terrace . |
6 | I do n't drink and do n't go out much so I manage on the money . |
7 | Yeah cos I got up J C R at eleven o'clock cos I looked at the clock up there . |
8 | Well I say , if we did and you just took it in and I went in the next day and picked it up . |
9 | Sat down and I fell through the whole of the chair . |
10 | My head goes down and I focus on the problem until I figure out how it can be solved , ’ said the man whose solutions make tomorrow 's game a test of the Premier Division 's worthiness as well as an international examination on a particularly thorough level . |
11 | Right , so if I write to the Secretary of State for Trade and In or is it the President for the Board of Trade ? |
12 | I suppose while this is for me cos on the sponsorship issue is , would sponsorship have any impact in terms of what I might purchase so if I went to the Scottish Opera or the ballet or to the theatre and I bought a programme which I usually do and one of the things which is interesting about the evening that erm Alan and I spent last time at Scottish Council was that half the people attend Scottish Opera buy a programme and the programmes that I have sponsored always . |
13 | So I 'm gon na get I 'm gon na be at that thing by about seven o'clock if I get on the train by I doubt I very much doubt it I 'm getting the train . |
14 | She got in the bed to watch Neighbours and we came back about five o'clock and I went up the stairs , the T V was and he was erm out for count , so I left them for another hour and I said to mum |
15 | I can hold it down till I get to the toilet I can . |
16 | Now I won that game , losing just two ‘ pieces ’ , but only after I left with the comeliest ‘ piece ’ of all , a wench from the imperial harem , did Suleiman discover that I had cheated and publicly marked me down for death . |
17 | I am particularly afraid of strange dentists , so before I went into the RAF I made sure my teeth were in order . |
18 | Long after I came to the army as I were telling you I used to go to pictures , I were in the S in the Savoy down Mostyn Street one one night I went and there in the programme there was this old er travel picture er some town or other th . |
19 | Much as I sympathise with the plaintiffs , it would , in my opinion , be extending the implications based on the maxim … to an unreasonable extent if it were held that what has been done in this case was a breach of an implied obligation . |
20 | The machine turned upside down as I slid into the water . |
21 | But it was only when I punched through the thick , creamy crest and the rainbow mist cleared from my eyes that I finally gave up all hope . |
22 | I 'll drop the key in as I go past the lodge . ’ |
23 | I shall not live it down when I get to the office . |
24 | It was only as I rapped on the open door of his office that I realized the plan was upside down . |
25 | So when I went inside the station , I told him where I was . |
26 | ‘ So when I look at the books now and I see all the symbols and all the stuff they do , I think ‘ Well , I 've already played this , and I 'm not really interested in reading it ! ’ |
27 | So when I appeared on the scene and there were things about me which did n't stack up … well , it was a reasonable conclusion to arrive at . |
28 | But as i told you before , when the council started preparing for Hitler , in when I went on the council work in nineteen thirty six I had to fill the ditches in there . |
29 | it 's that kind of thing , rather than I suppose to the theatre way , you know , you , you react much more spontaneously , so I thought that was an interesting thing that thing |
30 | ‘ My swing has not really had to alter , but I am probably hitting my drives 20 yards shorter and I 'm needing two or three irons longer than I needed before the accident . ’ |