Example sentences of "[noun] i [adv] [verb] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I had precise engineering plans I nevertheless measured and remeasured the space . |
| 2 | J. decided he wanted a photograph of me , and although I did tease him a bit about this — what did he want a photograph of me for when I was there in front of him most of the time ? — at his insistence I finally went and had it done . |
| 3 | When I first saw it I was confused by a strange surrealistic image of a place I both did and did not recognise . |
| 4 | One lecture I recently attended and very much enjoyed was given by Doctor Norman Vance on the subject of ‘ Moralistic Females and Victorian Discontents ’ . |
| 5 | I never told you I just everything 's going round in the room I just had and make the best of it . |
| 6 | ( my thanks to the somewhat bemused friend I just telephoned and asked to tell me the first ten objects that came into her mind — though I do wonder about her and what made her choose those particular objects ) . |
| 7 | In the beginning I just hoped and prayed that it would be over next week . |
| 8 | But I 'll say is it on the gardening page , is it on the letters page , pray for the sports page I always say and people look at me quite you know with a quite a look on their face when I sort of say that and I 'm absolutely serious , I 'll say you know if you get a four paragraph story on the gardeners ' page , you 're home . |
| 9 | ‘ I was forced to face the fact that I was living with a woman I actually disliked and I had no one to blame but myself . |
| 10 | I know I never met Bill , but from all you said of him he reminded me much too much of a man I once knew and loved . |
| 11 | The first man I ever saw and knew was , of course , my father . |
| 12 | He showed me the location of Bentwaters in the old AA Book of the Road I always carried and then bought the two ounces of Red from me at four times what I 'd agreed to pay for it . |
| 13 | So the very few that were still on the road I really treasured and appreciated seeing . |
| 14 | If I do n't pay cash and er been the best thing I ever done and its been sufficient , you know what I mean and er all the people , there ai n't nobody in this town that I ai n't worked for , sometime or other . |
| 15 | Wapping : My Lord , this is the way I always stand And have stood so for 60 years or more . |