Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] i [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just beyond Fort Augustus a trace of their road may still be found ; now impassable , it must have been a fearful route : the climb up to any height of it is ferociously demanding — or else I hit it at the wrong spot . |
| 2 | I expect I did , but I never know , I 'm so afraid of losing things that sometimes I take them into the most unsuitable places . |
| 3 | I also wondered about why we never saw Nellie 's Dad and eventually I asked her about him . |
| 4 | I 'd forgotten to fetch something to put my hair up with , and so I brushed it into a ponytail and held it in place with a pair of knickers from the airing cupboard , which I twisted round and used like a scrunchie . |
| 5 | Over a cup of tea in the departure lounge he asked about the red rose I had placed by the wall , and so I told him of the red , white and blue wreath at Bayeux , of the other red roses on the graves of the crew , and of the ‘ Peace ’ rose which we had brought from England . |
| 6 | Was drunk , and so I told him to ‘ clear . ’ |
| 7 | So anyway , before I heard that I 'd got an appointment at the Clinic , I got caught for one burglary and so I told them about the rest , 'cos I wanted to get off it an ’ I knew that was the only way of getting off it and I thought , now I 've been caught , I might as well get meself stuck down for a bit , like , rather than get a big fine which I wouldn'a been able to handle at that time … . |
| 8 | The situation called for some drastic action and so I laid it on the line ; either they won this game or I would resign . |
| 9 | There was obviously some sort of sexual element to it but I just did n't know what to do next and expected this man , who was about two or three years older than me , to , in some way , tell me or indicate to me and so I followed him without talking to him . |
| 10 | Yeah , erm , called the Cycle Book , I 've got a copy erm , and so I got one from him , and there 's quite a few adverts in there bikes . |
| 11 | Leslie did not want me to go with him to the station , and so I watched him from the hotel-room window , his jaunty walk bravely exaggerated . |
| 12 | And thus I search it with a sovereign kiss . |
| 13 | Eliot had arranged with me beforehand that we should have a private meeting , and meanwhile I sank myself into the communal life of the place . |
| 14 | God forbid it if ever I put myself in your position ! |
| 15 | ‘ One day , if I write my memoirs — the only thing I shall write well , if ever I put myself to the task of doing it — you will find a place in them , and what a place ! |
| 16 | Yeah it 's one thing that er we have to reem reemphasize to people and usually I do it on the phone , that if people have got businesses erm the way look at it there 's such a commitment by this company |
| 17 | She could n't say to him , if once I let you in you 'll take the whole thing over — and me as well . |
| 18 | My first experience with boys was not a great success but it was n't the last , and later I found myself in worse scrapes than on that first occasion . |
| 19 | I heard no more from the Head ( could someone have come worse than me ? ) and also I found myself in a new dorm filled with chaps who were in the top classes at school . |
| 20 | There was a hangnail at the side of my thumb and now I took it between my teeth and tore it off so that the blood ran , leaving a scarlet spotting on my dress where it bloused out above my waist . |
| 21 | Yeah you know what I 've done , it 's that er thing there well before I had it I used to put them on floor at side of ashtray , and now I leave it on settee and you know when I put me legs up , you know when you move over and watching telly ? |
| 22 | And in the evening I looked for them , and then I saw them of course , I knew where they were and I thought quite longly we were right in the front . |
| 23 | I shuffled down the shingle until I felt the mush of dry seaweed , and then I explored it with my hands — yes , it was just the stuff one would expect , weed , and here and there a bit of wood . |
| 24 | And then I finished it in one go . |
| 25 | ‘ So I just went a-front there with my milk and vinegar ; rubbed it in my palm and fingers ; and then I rubbed it inside the horses ’ nose and then round their nostrils . |
| 26 | And then I got myself in a knot cos there was a car coming up the road |
| 27 | And then I got it into my head to try a little art . |
| 28 | We had dinner at a good restaurant round the corner and then I took her to Sammy 's Bowery Follies , a popular nostalgic show in lower Manhatten . |
| 29 | and then I flick them at people . |
| 30 | I 've got it back two or three times and then I failed it in the end . |