Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [conj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can handle success and failure better than when I was young . |
| 2 | He said oh I do n't mind cleaning he said but , he 's like Derek , I mean I , ooh I can soon clean well he 's a good , you know , cleaner I mean the bath , whenever he , blimey if ever he cleans the bath it looks ten times better than when I I do it . |
| 3 | Anyway perhaps if if I come back to you after next Tuesday afternoon when I 've got a meeting to talk just about that subject with the deputy and see what options are going to come forward . |
| 4 | and it was as simple as that , it was only until that I got all the paperwork from Germany that the letters and one thing and another , but somebody in there said to them well you 're talking rubbish cos the girl 's telling you the truth |
| 5 | Plus plus yes and especially if if I went , we went to and I think it was er from the membership . |
| 6 | Erm hope so because if I do n't go in the police force I would n't mind being a |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't play in the five-asides but then I did n't play in them much before because I tend to get too argumentative and carried away sometimes . ’ |
| 8 | It was all as though I had a horrible secret I had to keep . ’ |
| 9 | Yeah , well as I say , sometimes I go along while in between but I I think it 's more or less when when I 've been aggravated a bit , you know what I mean ? |
| 10 | I was doing them for the wrong reasons — out of curiosity or for the money , rather than because I had a passion for doing them . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm sure my arms are at least two inches longer than when I set out . ’ |
| 12 | Crawled until I could see the arrow only because it was pale against the bark , and knew I was already further away than when I 'd taken the last bearing . |
| 13 | I just cos when I see children like that and you know there 's nothing you can really do for them , you ca n't make up for the fact that they 've got a rotten home life and that 's top and bottom line that 's what it is ! |
| 14 | Yeah I had a look er through it just before when I got it . |
| 15 | I never made more friends as easily as when I was among people whose language I spoke badly and who barely spoke mine at all . |
| 16 | Just as though I were a bit daft , Isobel thought with sudden resentment . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , there 's no need to make it sound as though I 'm a plague-carrier . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'll be down soon , ’ I said , and rocked to and fro in the bed to make noises which might make it sound as though I was getting up . |
| 19 | " Well , it is n't exactly as though I 'm not , " said Clelia . |
| 20 | I have tried to convey a pale memory of our meeting , but further than that I can not go . |
| 21 | The other point I would make is the further that the new settlement is from York itself , then the greater would be the dependency upon the motor car , this has been born out by the paper that has been submitted by York City Council in table one where one can see that within the urban area within the O R R the travel to work by car is forty six point four percent , travel to work in the Greater York area at the moment is sixty seven point five percent , further than that I do believe it would be even greater . |
| 22 | That 's actually all I want to say about the flipchart unless anybody 's any other comments I mean Jeff 's you 've obviously got a lot of experience in a do you feel there 's any anything further than that I know I 've covered it very briefly . |
| 23 | More than once I have seen a hapless opponent reaching down to scoop a front kick that never comes , and getting caught on the undefended side of the head ! |
| 24 | Much later it struck me as odd that I experienced no superstitious fear or repugnance in the presence of a dead body , although I am so squeamish that more than once I have had to ask a neighbour to deal with a dead rabbit that one of the cats had brought in during the night . |
| 25 | And more than that I 'm afraid I can not tell people . |
| 26 | Well , did you did they tell you a little more than that I mean did they tell you that er Mr played cricket with him or something like that or or what ? |
| 27 | That 's liable to catch the dust a bit more than that I suppose . |
| 28 | Yeah , no it 's a bit more than that I think it 's a bit of a case of please help her with her maths sheets . |
| 29 | Because my head landed on his teeth it hurt me more than if I 'd smacked down on the bridge of his nose . |
| 30 | and this kind of thing it 's getting er I just think I 'm going to end up more confused by trying to do it all at once than if I concentrate on one thing at a time . |