Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] i [vb mod] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | So the very thing that was supposed to wake them up , the noise of the alarm bell , was turned in the dream into a wishful of now I can go on sleeping , okay there 's a bell , but it 's Sunday morning , you know , the bells are ringing , the church bells are ringing , I can go on sleeping , so they went on sleeping and they were late for the exam . |
2 | It 's near the bottom end of Ladbroke Grove , almost due south of where I used to live up until about this time last year . |
3 | But for now I 'll go along with you . |
4 | There 's nothing in here I can chuck away . |
5 | From there I 'll throw out this hook with the rugby ball as bait . ’ |
6 | ‘ I used to go and play basketball at this gymnasium , ’ recalls Randy , as though it were only yesterday , ‘ and from there I 'd go over to this drummer 's house and we 'd jam . ’ |
7 | Presumably yeah , I , er , ah , well you heard what I said it will be nice , he said yeah , so , after work I suppose , well before there I 'll go down , he 'll help himself , it 's just he ca n't take any more |
8 | For tomorrow I 'll sail far away , |
9 | You know , I do n't feel myself anyway I ca n't I ca n't get through to anyway I 'll try so it does n't matter . |
10 | no you 'd have to get all out and have a look , but I mean if I go over there I 'll bring back a load of D K and I know I will we 'll see . |
11 | Unless you have a good reason for standing over there I should come out and get some fresh air . |
12 | I 'm now on Valium to get me through all this and feel desperate with worry about how I 'll manage alone . |
13 | But , like my ignorance about how I will look completely grey , I am unsure of the stages I will go through to reach her . |
14 | ‘ But at least I can go outside today . |
15 | I felt bloody awful this week , but erm at least I can run around a bit , come on Henry bally down , bally down , sit , good boy , go charging off up there and if you throw it , you wo n't see where it goes it 's so dark . |
16 | I would n't be able to stretch out , but at least I could sit there . |
17 | I felt rather miserable , but at least I could walk about now , in a two-metre circle . |
18 | ‘ But at least I could come close to the song of electricity . |
19 | By now I 'd read about how exhausting flight could be and how birds of prey used warm air currents — known as thermals — to lift them without using up too much energy , and here they were , doing just that over the rocks by Tintagel Castle . |