Example sentences of "[adv] of [noun] [conj] i " in BNC.
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1 | I was a witness and so on you see and down below and the sergeant said to me , the sergeant came up and said to me , you 'll have to be careful because he said that boy , he was sitting there with his mother , poor woman , all in black and er the em the boy 's employer had got a solicitor on his behalf , you see , and I said well I can only speak through and say what happened , that 's all I can do and er , so of course when I went into the witness box this man came and er asked me all sorts of questions . |
2 | Aye so of course As I say er i i we were more or less grew up with it . |
3 | I made a gallon or so of tea until I ran out of milk , then a pot of black coffee , and pressed every cup and mug in Sunil 's fitted kitchen into service . |
4 | Not of course that I 'd want to . ’ |
5 | I had a paper to say and they said there was too much money coming in here a week , because you were working that I could n't get anything and I , it said , I wrote , it , it all come when I wrote to say could I have relief off of prescriptions cos I was on that H I V at the time |
6 | They do n't always dress up of course but I soon got in the habit by trying on a Tommy Cooper-styled fez . |
7 | I thought about buying a gun , but decided against that too ; I 'd be out of money before I left . |
8 | ‘ I 've run out of money and I 'm trapped with the children and I do n't like it here . |
9 | well I could n't believe it when we went to Jersey and he was out of money and I could n't believe it he ai n't got any money |
10 | Well I 've got a red I got a red book out of Smiths and I had , one of my clients was a printer so I got him to put it in in the gold |
11 | Erm , I 've got a feeling it 's him out of Bread but I ca n't think of his name . |
12 | It brought back to me the reality of the life I had so abruptly left behind : I had somehow assumed it would fade out of existence when I wanted , fade back in when convenient , unchanged . |
13 | Though the marker stone had been half out of water when I started to run , the whole barrage of banked stones , with the causeway atop , was suddenly aswirl and , as I raced for the crossing , the level seemed to rise a foot or more . |
14 | Well we had oh I 'm trying to think what we had today oh got out of assembly because I had to go and speak to this maths teacher who 's dead boring ! |
15 | I 've never been out of work and I do n't want to be . |
16 | As I knit the swatch , a ladder is created where the needles are out of work and I find it very easy to measure between the two ladders with my green ruler when the swatch is completed . |
17 | One man who took early retirement at 61 thought , at the time , that the advantage of early retirement was ‘ The fact that there are so many young people out of work and I thought I 'd done a lifetime 's work and might as well leave it for the young ones . ’ |
18 | So I was particularly pleased to find at one point , when I 'd indulged in a lengthy photo session , that the rest of the party had gone over the brow and out of sight and I was left for a while with the world to myself . |
19 | Only when she was out of sight and I had turned a corner did I remember that I had left the little willow leaf from her body lying upstairs on her Sophocles . |
20 | him something else for Christmas , something smaller and I made him a model out of matchsticks and I said this is the prototype |
21 | That 's what , that 's what is missing out of Colin and I , Colin and I |
22 | It always used to go out of tune and I thought it was the tuners , but in fact the trouble was with that old Gibson vibrola — a terrible thing , really cheap . |
23 | When he first came in I offered him a drink out of courtesy and I think he thought I was taking the Mick out of his drinking in the past . |
24 | No it 's down there , and in it er I wrote it last night actually when I was feeling pretty fucked off so it 's probably a bit out of order but I wrote to him and said erm tt Josh has been round this evening asking questions about what 's happened with his money erm and I think you 're really out of order . |
25 | I had never been in the lift since moving — either it was out of order or I could smell the putrid stench seeping out into the lobby and avoided it . |
26 | They analysed it and found that it was mud , a piece of clay , y'know , but them not being all-forgiving , they suspected that I was using drugs , y'know , so they kicked me out of home and I went to live with my grandmother and then I had more freedom there to do as I pleased and hence started going to pop festivals and things and enjoying them and getting off on them and mixing with that whole subculture if you like . |
27 | Is this a good idea or is a bad idea , so there are problems , yes the , the test , some people will say the driving test is out of date but I think at the moment it 's the best we can offer given all circumstances . |
28 | Well the paper must be out of date because I think I got that stamp months ago in fact you bought it back from Switzerland . |
29 | Do n't get out of bed until I tell you that it 's safe . |
30 | who was on the ward last night and sister that was on today and I wan na know why and how he fell out of bed when I got up there they said would you like to come in , I said I most certainly would , she said erm , what would you like to say ? |