Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [det] [noun] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If we do n't hurry we 're likely to meet Florian and Nicky in the lift , and right this minute I do n't think I could bring myself to keep quiet about the things you 've just been saying . ’ |
| 2 | I have always liked to read the Golden Age detective stories , if you like , the country house murder mysteries , but I would have to admit that reading those is to some extent desire for stasis , a desire erm for a particularly safe kind of world , where everything works out in the end , because that 's usually what happens , and so these days I tend only to take very small doses of that particular medicine . |
| 3 | And later that night I saw him dead . ’ |
| 4 | The Executive Council under Sir Paw Tun were inert and helpless , and later that morning I went to the Governor to say that I did not think we could hold the situation any longer without grave risk , and advised him to call for the resignation of the Executive Council . |
| 5 | I booked the conference not realising it was gon na be the control room by this time , and then this morning I turned up to find out we ca n't put the lights on without getting behind the bar , and we ca n't get behind the bar so that 's why this er |
| 6 | ‘ I kept thinking today how lucky I was , you see , how blessedly fortunate , with all I have , all that is so comfortable , all that makes me so — so much happier than I was , and then this evening I went to the Rectory and when I returned I was in my room and I looked out at the darkness and I thought of you and how lonely you must be after all the company and society you have known just recently and I thought — I thought — ’ |
| 7 | And then another week I give you two |
| 8 | and I bought three and I thought there should be five cos I did n't have a fire on Sunday at all and twice this week I have n't lit it till fi you know them four buckets |
| 9 | We have a basket where we keep all her toys and chewy things and she empties that out and brings everything from where that is and puts them all on this rug and consequently this rug I think she she has adopted as hers . |
| 10 | He would give me a hearty slap on the back , comment on my expanding girth — ’ Twice the man you used to be , Andreas , eh ? ’ — say that we must meet again ’ for a jar , old man , but just this moment I have to rush , ’ look at his watch , sigh apologetically and shoot off to his next meeting or liquid lunch or whatever . |
| 11 | I mean I only had one bad knee but then this time I got two . |