Example sentences of "[noun] i [adv] [vb base] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outgoings will vary but in my own case I already know that for gas , water and the poll tax I shall need an extra £132 . |
| 2 | What amazes me is how often they 'll say to me ‘ Thank you very much for treating me like a human being ’ because however drunk they are in the churchyard I always believe that you 're much more likely to get somewhere with somebody if you are polite and kind to them and treat them like a real human being , and you can get into all sorts of fascinating conversations with these people even when they are fairly drunk , because actually they are real human beings , they are n't awful people . |
| 3 | There was no way I could hope to keep up with him through the tunnel ( a route I highly recommend if you want to lose a tail ) as there were just too many imponderable lane changes and toll booth stops , so I U-turned where I should n't and headed back . |
| 4 | ‘ You see , one of the advantages of being dead is that one is released as it were from the bonds of time and therefore I can see everything that has happened or will happen , all at the same time except that of course I now know that Time does not , for all practical purposes , exist . ’ |
| 5 | In my books I strongly advocate that a rope is carried in the party for use as a safeguard if necessary , or to aid retreat . |
| 6 | Where there are complicated angles in the shoulders I generally find that the most straightforward method is to mark off directly from the parts to which the rail is to be jointed . |
| 7 | You look ready to dance with rage , and although we might collect a few pennies from them in return for our providing such a spectacle I hardly think that we could put it on as a permanent entertainment ! ’ |
| 8 | As a member of that Council I emphatically deny that he has had any mandate , or that he is justified in assuming that the Council as a whole takes his view . |
| 9 | At this point I merely suggest that there should be an amendment to the Treaty of Rome , stripping the Commission of its powers to issue of its own initiative interpretative , law-making directives and making it , as with all democratically controlled civil services , the servant of the elected national governments . |
| 10 | As a consequence I really wish that I had spent the extra money and bought a slightly better machine . |
| 11 | And in posing these questions I well appreciate that the terms in which I five is presented are exactly those in the approved structure plan , with the exception of the deletion of the specific references to certain town centres and provision . |
| 12 | ‘ During the day I only paint when he 's asleep , and sometimes for the extra hour if he 's happy playing beside me . |
| 13 | CATHERINE I sometimes wonder if that 's why it happened . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | subject I sometimes wonder if sometimes the Tory politicians are like Jehovah 's Witnesses really , they sort of set out into battle and say go out and convert these people , we 're gon na slam the door on them . |
| 16 | For this reason I always emphasise that if , as you complete the final turn , you are happy that you have got the field ‘ made ’ , you should always open full airbrake for a few moments to check that you would undershoot with that setting . |
| 17 | Well , the thing I mainly notice when last week when Paul was home , not last week , the week before last I had Paul solidly at home , he moved himself entirely in lock , stock and barrel at the weekend , he was then with me waiting for his job and he went out every day and did little bit 's of shopping for me , got him from under my feet , saved me money , cos I was only buying what I absolutely needed , and the amount of time that I had , I mean I was able to go out for the whole day with Peggy on Wednesday , I was able to get food prepared and , admittedly I did n't manage to get as much done as I thought I was going to do , but then I think that 's with most people in life , |
| 18 | They ask me , Is that your writing ? and it is of course it is those are Despot control codes from when the computer 's mouse was misbehaving and that 's the way I always spell when I do a shopping list . |
| 19 | Wapping : My Lord , this is the way I always stand And have stood so for 60 years or more . |
| 20 | As a detectorist I now know that it also led to the loss of Civil War coins , militaria and other relics in the vicinities of sieges . |
| 21 | It is exactly the sort of corkscrew I always use but the room was so dark and I so flurried that I drove it in sideways and broke the cork . |
| 22 | ‘ without going into further detail I respectfully suggest that it is on any view wrong to introduce into this branch of the criminal law questions whether particular contracts are void or voidable on the ground of mistake or fraud or whether any mistake is sufficiently fundamental to vitiate a contract . |
| 23 | ‘ You must appreciate Stephen is jealous and kicks up a fuss every time I even suggest seeing you , but I do n't intend to let that stop me in future . |
| 24 | I think there 's no doubt at all that erm from a Conservative point of view I actually believe that schools , under their heads , know best , and I am quite happy to trust schools with a budget of money which will enable them to buy in the specific needs that their school requires . |
| 25 | Daphne 's first suggestion was Alchemilla mollis , or lady 's mantle , a plant I already grow but had never thought of cutting . |