Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [pron] [adv] [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to . |
| 2 | But of course I think about him in a much different way as the years go by , and now I always smile when I think of him , because he made me laugh . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | and then you suddenly realize when you 're nineteen |
| 5 | that would be the class and yet they all did cos George and I insisted ! |
| 6 | For instance , it is no good writing to a particular customer if historically he only pays after you have phoned him . |
| 7 | but equally we now know until the Daily Telegraph published its article on the ninth of January nineteen eighty eight , some of these brochures with this representation or claim was still in circulation to the general public you know that ? |
| 8 | But then something just clicked when he was about 15 . |
| 9 | I looked up at Granny 's picture and saw the black crepe paper had slipped again — but then it always did when the door was slammed . |
| 10 | This great tower loomed over Rome — as indeed it still does although halved by a later earthquake — dominating the Capitol , the Colosseum , the Quirinal and the route from the Lateran to St Peter 's , and was described by one chronicler as touching the clouds . |