Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] i [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or perhaps I did diagnose it but I 've forgotten . |
| 2 | That meant , or so I like to flatter myself , that it must have struck some chord with at least one practising politician . |
| 3 | about the last month or so I 've felt it getting slower . |
| 4 | Over the next 40 minutes or so I hope to take you on a review of the practical application of artificial intelligence ( AI ) in the field of aircraft maintenance within the RAF . |
| 5 | They had a new machine in , but after a pound or so I had mastered it and won an extra spaceship . |
| 6 | Or so I keep telling myself . |
| 7 | ‘ To be honest it 's not a proper bridge , although sooner or later I intend to build one . |
| 8 | Once or twice I have heard her begin to tell the story of those days to some young man , but then halfway through a sentence she would go white with anger , knock back her gin and go silent . |
| 9 | unless it 's the but er if you 've forgot it back good reason for handing it over so yeah I mean I , I think that well I 've given you the , the , the strength if you like we can see it , perhaps a little bit more open questioning would n't go amiss would it ? |
| 10 | On the street again , suddenly I felt I was in the middle of a farce — ‘ POLICE SEARCH FOR THE BIG BANANA IS ON — and the discovery that actually I did have my cheque numbers in my moneybelt and that it was the photocopies that had been stolen made me almost light-headed . |
| 11 | He also had difficulty remembering his lines , and eventually I had to write his lines on boards , on bottles , on door frames — anything he had to pass by or pick up . |
| 12 | She was quite happy to let me do my survey and eventually I had to make my excuses or she would have gone on chatting all day . |
| 13 | The letter which he valued most came from the leader of English theology , who was now Archbishop of York , William Temple : ‘ Men ought to acknowledge their major obligations , and so I write to thank you ... ’ |
| 14 | ‘ And so I 've got his precious kids all for my very own , have n't I ? |
| 15 | But like , it was alright then because like means that you can changed up in this one corner of the changing room all the time and so I 'd got my shirt on while I was putting my T-shirt on like for the reason that my bra strap was bust , not actually because I 'd got a gigantic love bite around my neck ! |
| 16 | Anyway , one day I had tickets to see Mike Oldfield and I was really upset because we had these gigs and so I had to sell them . |
| 17 | And so I had to do what I could ; I … |
| 18 | Thumbed through some papers that they have got , in front of the shop , and found one set of erm , papers from nineteen thirty-six concerned the French National Anthem , and I thought that was a second amazing coincidence , er , and so I had to buy myself that that set of papers for about a pound . |
| 19 | I was readily acknowledged as the Class Paper Aeroplane Making Champion ( once constructing a complicated four-wing design which flew 12 metres in a dead straight line ) and so I decided to put my skills to good use . |
| 20 | ‘ But I knew there was a book in me somewhere and so I decided to put my personal experiences of the war down on paper . ’ |
| 21 | I found it very difficult to say this word , and so I decided to shorten it and call them Houys . |
| 22 | And so I have done something from a plane . |
| 23 | If only I had told you straight away the appointment was a hoax … ’ |
| 24 | Oh ma'am if only I had shown myself strong in the face of temptation ! |
| 25 | If only I 'd touched your hand , |
| 26 | ‘ If only I 'd met you a year ago . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Pa , if only I 'd made it up with you , ’ she cried . |
| 28 | ‘ If only I 'd got my clothes for the wedding , ’ she mourned . |
| 29 | In a wedding photograph , the interesting faces are not those of the bride and groom , but of the encircling guests : the bride 's younger sister ( will it happen to me , the tremendous thing ? ) , the groom 's elder brother ( will she let him down like that bitch did me ? ) , the bride 's mother ( how it takes me back ) , the groom 's father ( if the lad knew what I know now if only I 'd known what I know now ) , the priest ( strange how even the tongue-tied are moved to eloquence by these ancient vows ) , the scowling adolescent ( what do they want to get married for ? ) , and so on . |
| 30 | ‘ If only I 'd 'elped you more you might still be 'ere . ’ |