Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] i [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are a young gentleman and I am sorry to say , not better than I wish you to be . |
| 2 | ‘ Only if I wore it on my head . ’ |
| 3 | Because I 'm going to help her with her paper round tomorrow so she can get it done early — the people do n't come before 7 and we 've got to be at the bus terminus by 8.30 ; because that 's when we 've arranged to meet — ; meet our friends of course and so if I help her with her round she can get it done in time . |
| 4 | ‘ So if I invited you to my house you would not be upset by the simple food I would serve ? ’ |
| 5 | Right so if I give you minus |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps it is time we discussed the rules that will govern the unfortunate time we spend together until I return you to Milano tomorrow . ’ |
| 7 | I said that he could try to put the cube together and I left him with the pieces while I went to fetch some paper . |
| 8 | Much as I regard them as a social nuisance on a par with the Orange Walk and invented by the devil to prevent churchgoers getting to church on time , I can not claim that marathons have ( yet ) been proved to kill enough people to justify banning them . |
| 9 | I do n't have fancy feelings about where money comes from , so long as I earn it in ways which fit in with my flexible principles . |
| 10 | I was young and easily impressed , so when I saw her in the West Indies , beautiful and elegantly dressed , I thought I loved her . |
| 11 | So when I approached them with my intricate scheme for escaping the greedy jaws of Mr Kinnock and his pals via the strategic disappearance of Punch , they saw the beauty of it straightaway . |
| 12 | Just that I saw him on a train to London a couple of weeks ago . |
| 13 | Anyway , I thought I 'll have this away and I slid it off the shelf and it dropped like a ton of bricks on me leg and broke me ankle . |
| 14 | Just cos I beat him in a race . |
| 15 | ‘ Then it would obviously be best if I leave you on your own until you 're in a more reasonable mood , ’ he said , walking towards the door . |
| 16 | He wanted to rush round straight away but I asked him to be patient . |
| 17 | The parent attitude would be ‘ do it thus because I tell you to ’ , again crossing the stimulus/response lines . |
| 18 | cos you know he was that shattered he was falling asleep downstairs before I put him in his cot , so it was a case then of putting him to sleep in his cot |
| 19 | I 'm just going to pay a call anyway before I leave it to the very last . |
| 20 | ‘ Sorry , but I really , truly can not help you now , ’ I say , just before I dispatch them on a current running down towards St Malo . |
| 21 | I bought the sandwich and carefully peeled away the Cellophane , but just as I lifted it to my mouth the train lurched violently over a siding , making the bottles clatter in the drinks trolley and causing all the meatballs to jump off the bun , like sailors abandoning a burning ship . |
| 22 | I prefer to leave pictures just as I finish them in front of the subject . |
| 23 | I knew as soon as I saw it in the garden sale catalogue , it was unmistakeable . ’ |
| 24 | It 's alright in that light as soon as I put it on the line it looks peculiar ! |
| 25 | ‘ As soon as I took it in my hands it felt beautiful , ’ he said . |
| 26 | As soon as I told her about the things that had happened , she knew . |
| 27 | I try to take my youngsters to lots of little shows as soon as I consider them to be ‘ safe ’ . |
| 28 | I said as soon as I see it in the paper oh that looks nice . |
| 29 | ‘ Signorina , will you be all right if I leave you for a little while ? ’ |
| 30 | Do you think it will be all right if I post it like it is ? |