Example sentences of "[pron] of course [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 The business is out there , we are set up to do it , and I 've worked it out and and Zain and Ian and I of course we have to go through it , that eventually we will be able to meet it .
2 Well , of course , when daylight came and I of course it was midnight see when that happened and early in the morning and er , oh there was a , crowds of people coming .
3 When I speak to him he responds ; but not with the same speed with which he responds to his nurse , from whom of course he obtains satisfaction of his physical needs .
4 The most serious danger , however , is that the ‘ people bit ’ gets lost — plans often assume that people will work and prosecute them in logical , rational ways , which of course they do not .
5 The person who gets on with the job instead of wasting time in chatter may show up the less zealous and cause the chatterers to feel vaguely guilty , which of course they wo n't like .
6 In fact they deserved every sympathy but they succeeded only in making themselves look obstructive and unreconstructed , relics of the pre-meritocratic days before the Heineken League , which of course they fought until the last ditch was so full of water they had to jump out .
7 What happened when trains from the two lines converged on Pittsburgh , which of course they did , utterly confused and bewildered the poor steel-workers and their families and all the other benighted souls whose destination this was .
8 It appears that the fighters missed Fuchida 's flare and he had to fire a second , this was unfortunate as the firing of two flares meant that they had not surprised the Americans , which of course they had .
9 Thus , we can not predict social events with absolute certainty and have to couch our forecasts in terms of probabilities , provided other factors do not change , which of course they can .
10 The Collector 's eye came to rest on the corner where Miriam lay ; she was too weak to help Dr McNab now , but although she could no longer be of any service to the ailing figures who lay nearby , she had refused to let the Collector move her mattress up to the dais where the air was better and where cholera clouds would be less likely to hang ( if such things existed , which of course they had been proved not to by Dr McNab , but all the same … ) .
11 But they assured him that they could take that part of it out , which of course they did .
12 said , they 've said , removed one Statesman of a telephone and then provided one Statesman telephone which of course they
13 Jenny reappeared soon enough and she suggested that we nip down the road to a little pâtisserie she knew , which of course we did .
14 The anti-realist does not believe in the existence of this further ‘ real ’ world which lies behind the world that we know and which may come apart from our world in ways which of course we could not recognize if they occurred .
15 Christians , which of course we all are .
16 ‘ An albatross , as I was saying , is one of the rarest phenomena in golf , even rarer than a hole in one which of course we have also seen today .
17 and that 's the way its it left we left it but of course as I mentioned to him we 'd completely omitted Tats which of course we we we had n't done Tats at all .
18 While the uppers often irritatingly remain almost as new as they day they came out of the box , the outsole looks as though it 's been left behind on the concrete , which of course it has .
19 ‘ It will be the end of family life as I know it , ’ he said , which of course it was .
20 Advanced root etching is shown in Fig. 1.11A , where the root marks are so extensive and overlapping that the individual marks are hard to distinguish and the whole bone appears to have been chemically corroded ( which of course it has ) .
21 Many elderly people who are in need fail to apply for a supplementary pension or allowance , because they are inclined to regard it as some kind of charity ( a much maligned word ) — which of course it is not , and there should be no loss of pride or dignity for those who apply for it .
22 The ministry 's power consists only of agreeing the number of places to be advertised , for which of course it has to pay the bill .
23 Provided that the Cabinet was aware of the company 's power , which of course it was , the company had little need to campaign or lobby for its case .
24 Indeed the gallery can be seen as if it were only ( which of course it is also ) a mere technical device for the objects to be displayed .
25 The debate we 've just had on Labour Party links raises questions , er , we believe about our attitude , our attitude , the union 's attitude to the Party , the Labour Party when it does hold power , which of course it does , er locally in some areas of this country .
26 Richard Dawkins writes very well about this , I mean , he makes complete , he shows that Lamarckism is total nonsense , er , which of course it is .
27 So that 's that 's quite a lot , if it 's an investigator , which of course it may not be .
28 A lady today had a lunch with one of the residents , which of course I encourage .
29 Well , she asked me to kiss her , which of course I did , and then she said maybe she would n't marry him ; that she thought she might be in love with me .
30 Which of course I 'll ask yeah I 've got plenty of those sort
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