Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [conj] i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been a mother of sons only and I think now that she would have liked me to call her mother ; but then , such an idea never entered my head . |
| 2 | We have been spinning coins together since I do n't know when , and in all that time ( if it is all that time ) I do n't suppose either of us was more than a couple of gold pieces up or down . |
| 3 | I could hear voices somewhere as I looked around , studying the portraits , examining the marquetry of the chairs and tables , all of which were ranged formally about the walls . |
| 4 | ‘ They will have their tails up and I do n't think we could be going there at a harder time . |
| 5 | So I do n't think I 've ever I 've had it for about eight months now and I do n't think I 've yet listened to all five in a row without changing it . |
| 6 | Yeah , but it 's very , it 's well , can , I do n't suppose it can be , I might of had one of the speakers out but I know there in the back of the speakers , you had this loft insulation it 's full of that |
| 7 | I 'll swear all the clocks in the world have gone centuries slower since I came here . |
| 8 | Sandra : Wanny told me that months ago and I do n't believe it any more than he does . |
| 9 | One to the sea , which is about 80 miles away , and another to Sao Paulo which is quite near , and I hope to do some shopping for presents there before I come home . |
| 10 | Something nice to wipe my muddy feet on when I come in ! |
| 11 | I did water-colours mostly but I 'd just started painting in oils and felt I had quite a talent for it , but they were n't very encouraging … |
| 12 | And then he was singing Frere Jaques right and I did n't know the words to it so I just sorry I ca n't remember the words and he goes . |
| 13 | But he , he 's put some shelves in and I do n't need those shelves . |
| 14 | he said you know what is it and I showed him a piece like , he said oh I he said yes , I said I 've taken the nails out that I did n't see , he said oh I 've got a metal detector here |
| 15 | Well yes , but let me say that I gave up going to auditions well before I became well known through The History Man , on television . |
| 16 | In those days there seemed so many vistas ahead that I did not mind when I began to go public : it was sufficiently gratifying to feel that Eliot wanted to print some of my work in his good time and in mine . |
| 17 | Steve took my specs away and I felt much better . |
| 18 | I prayed for them in their growing up years more than I had ever done before . |
| 19 | It was n't until some years later that I came back to the question of the receptors and showed that the most dramatic effects involved the NMDA glutamate receptor I mentioned in the last chapter ( but wo n't discuss further here ) . |
| 20 | It was three years later that I did finally audition , at seventeen . |
| 21 | ‘ Childbirth ’ our local priest called it , but I did n't really understand what he was on about until several years later when I came up against the problem again . |
| 22 | I 've played back-to-back rugby for four years now and I feel as fresh as the day that I started . |
| 23 | and I was upset and I thought it was just that but no , it was about two weeks before that I went down with it . |
| 24 | old films really but I do n't like war films . |
| 25 | I like boats even though I have n't even been on one . |
| 26 | on erm yes two days ago and I 've only got |
| 27 | Well I 've took that , I took that some years ago but I 've never seen it on show you know ? |
| 28 | I have over the years sent my postal order regularly and it was n't until two years ago that I became more actively involved in the work of Save The Children fund raising . |
| 29 | And it was just over four years ago that I came here . |
| 30 | ‘ I was a millionaire almost overnight about ten years ago so I have never been motivated for money . |