Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [conj] i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , we 've got our cost reductions as an ongoing process er , so it 's never complete , you 're always looking for ways to , to become more efficient or effective but I do n't anticipate any redundancies er , any further redundancies but obviously if , if , if systems become available which improve our efficiency and effectiveness we , we have to take account of it . |
| 2 | I was concentrating too hard to feel elated or amazed that I had actually trained this wild creature to come to me at will . |
| 3 | This is not because it is so special or secret that I do not want to divulge it — indeed the patient will remember it quite well for himself — but because I do not want him to listen to that tape at some future date and begin to regress himself when I am not there to take charge of the situation . |
| 4 | I 've been , I 've been through them all and er there 's only one or two that I 've not actually had any contact with actually one way or another . |
| 5 | Many systems and many faces may have changed over the last year or two and I do n't imagine you would believe me if I said that none of these changes had saddened me but , in a changing market-place , the basics have n't changed and the most basic precept of all is that there are no healthy banks where there are no health customers to sustain them . |
| 6 | I 've seen this fella on the back of the bus with his bird and that and I walked down and was sitting by them and he was tooting gear , y'know , behind the back seat like that and he threw a load of gear over to me and said : ‘ Here , d' you want some of this ? ’ , y'know , monging , off his head , like . |
| 7 | Oh I go to Soho and China Town and that and I 've never seen any trouble , the only time I actually saw a . |
| 8 | No , this lovely make up and that and I do n't want . |
| 9 | Dixie lies so still and bloody that I do n't need to touch him . |
| 10 | I was so young and foolish and I did not know what I was doing . ’ |
| 11 | I think that many of the points I wanted to bring forward and some that I did n't know about . |
| 12 | It made the universe more savage and unknowable than I had ever dreamed … |
| 13 | Quite right and proper but I did n't fancy trying to scrounge a lift from a back-bencher . ’ |
| 14 | Four and six when I went down Nottingham to work , at the box place , Henry 's I got seven and six a week . |
| 15 | Of course what I really need is something chemical and crystalline but I do n't have any and would n't know where to start looking for it in Inverness . |
| 16 | I 've seen One and Three but I have n't seen Two . |
| 17 | More likely the net was carried away because the ground was bone dry and hard and I had n't been able to push the stakes deep enough into the soil . |
| 18 | ‘ Because it was a fairly long-term contract my wife , who was pregnant , and our two children , were living out there with me , which was all well and good until I fell seriously ill and was carted into hospital . |
| 19 | The comparison between Matisse and Picasso is true and present and I do not think that one can look at Matisse without thinking of Picasso and vice versa . |
| 20 | In spite of depressing circumstances , I was more excited and confident than I had ever been . |
| 21 | She 's simply being as welcoming and hospitable as I 've always heard the Taiwanese are , and trying to help me feel at home and among friends because she knows what it 's like to be a newcomer in a foreign city herself . ’ |
| 22 | As one of the ‘ older ’ helpers it was a little like going back to school as my two ‘ children ’ are now 28 and 25 and I do not have any grandchildren so holding babies of 18 months upwards and playing with youngsters was quite a change . |
| 23 | That was very brutal and hurtful when I felt down . |
| 24 | If those primitive attitudes had n't also been the determining factor in my own fate I would have found it as ludicrous and pitiful as I do now . |
| 25 | The bad news is that the good news made me feel so relieved and excited that I ran out to a bar and drank a bunch of big ones . |
| 26 | I just kept working harder and harder as I did n't want to let anyone down and I did n't believe I would pick up a drink again . |
| 27 | Their attack is always focused and clean and I have never heard a more searching account of the beautiful third Etude for violas and cellos , pour l'expression et le ‘ Sostenuto ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ I went into the fight against Nardiello sharper and stronger than I had ever been before . ’ |
| 29 | OK , maybe it seems harsh , but I do n't think I 'm the only one who gets slightly bugged by dropouts trying to make me feel like I 'm insensitive and uncaring if I do n't pay for their drink . |
| 30 | OK , maybe it seems harsh , but I do n't think I 'm the only one who gets slightly bugged by dropouts trying to make me feel like I 'm insensitive and uncaring if I do n't pay for their drink . |