Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] i [be] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Cricket is the only even vaguely athletic endeavour I involve myself in , unless you count walking the dog or grovelling to my bank manager , so if I am forced to give up the game by the purchase of these new sightscreens , my fitness will suffer . |
| 2 | So if I 'm going to think long term I 've got to got to work |
| 3 | There were lesbian nuances I did n't much like ; perhaps because I was beginning to take against the facet in Conchis 's polyhedral character that obviously enjoyed ‘ curious ’ objects and literature . |
| 4 | Much as I was itching to play with the Bob Marley , I knew I would have more chance of parking Armstrong illegally when I collected Werewolf . |
| 5 | So I can still hear him talking to me when I 'm doing some of this stuff , especially when I 'm trying to sing — which has not been easy . |
| 6 | For years I used to knit exactly the number of rows quoted in the instructions , especially when I was trying to get friendly with the machine . |
| 7 | I like it better when I 'm sent to look after a baby or play with a kid like Mike . |
| 8 | And it 's only because you said , previously er , that she was a sort of feminist that when , he said do this do that and she said very frankly to him do you think just because I 'm going to marry you I shall commit ? |
| 9 | I had not conducted business in Latin America or in Africa at all , and visits to both countries soon after I was appointed revealed how extraordinarily difficult it was to get an accurate view of both their problems and opportunities merely from reading , no matter how assiduously . |
| 10 | But just as I was trying to explain it to her , they repeated the telephone number , so I rang them up . |
| 11 | Just as I was trying to find a hole in the hedge , so that I could get into the next field , I saw another giant coming towards me . |
| 12 | Then one day a couple of months ago he returned , just as I was leaving assuming I 'd missed him . |
| 13 | Just as I was starting to get some real braking action , an ominous dark line appeared across the runway which , from 50 to 60 metres , turned into an overgrown drainage dyke about seven feet wide by five or six feet deep . |
| 14 | Just when I was intending to go out for my tuna sandwich , there arrived what I believe they call the full panoply of the Law , in the shape of an Inspector called Bush , and his Sergeant . |
| 15 | I 've got a B T van normally when I 'm working parked underneath |
| 16 | It appears to me that I have collected his and everyone else 's quota of the annoying little bastards , so I return to my trench , wrap myself up , and sleep fitfully until I am awakened to take my turn on guard . |
| 17 | Then you follow me and hit me with a driver and drop away quickly because I 'm going to hit it so fast he wo n't know where the ball is until it 's down the fairway . ’ |
| 18 | The Action Campaign is also seeking support from medical journalists , and I have been asked repeatedly if I was going to add to the ‘ adverse ’ ME publicity . |
| 19 | I did it partly for aesthetic reasons ; partly to economize on the number of genes necessary ( if genes did n't exert mirror-image effects on the two sides of the tree , we 'd need separate genes for the left and the right sides ) ; and partly because I was hoping to evolve animal-like shapes , and most animal bodies are pretty symmetrical . |
| 20 | It 's probably because I was getting looked at by erm a ginger haired boy |
| 21 | Also as I am planning to travel around Europe and perhaps further afield , I would like an engine that is easy to work on and obtain spares for . |
| 22 | Well I ca n't read it now because I 'm going to take assembly in a minute |
| 23 | So fuck off back to your dormitories now before I 'm tempted to pontificate even longer . |
| 24 | I 'm not going to give them the chance to say I ca n't foster any more , I know when I , I know now when I 'm going to stop fostering . |
| 25 | And the handout I 've got here which I could n't tie in just now when I was trying to do the deduction is because the rates are very slightly different . |
| 26 | Well if I 'm going to read this er at all properly it 's going to take me all afternoon is n't it ? |
| 27 | Watching the editing of the Brahms Second Symphony I must say I forgot I was watching a film , simply because I was fascinated to hear new colours which the eye was suggesting by the way you were using shots of the violas and the trombones at some of the quietest moments in the work . |
| 28 | ‘ I am here because I was asked to come by Claudia . |
| 29 | After play , Bucknor said : ‘ I consulted today after I was encouraged to do so . |
| 30 | I have n't , I have n't asked the people here whether I 'm allowed to do this ? |