Example sentences of "[adv] i [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Huh , ’ she said , and then smiled faintly as she said , ‘ odd , you know : you tell me that Annie 's a good woman , and I suppose she is , but I ca n't stand the sight of her ; then I tell you the constable 's a good man , and you know he is , and you ca n't stand the sight of him . |
| 32 | ‘ ’ Then I remembered what the Lord had said : ‘ John baptised with water , but you will be baptised with the Holy Spirit . ’ |
| 33 | Then I gave him the slip and came to London . ’ |
| 34 | Then I allowed myself the luxury to think ‘ Hey , yeah , at 30 you 're not such a failure after all . ’ |
| 35 | ‘ Then I owe you the most sincere apologies , Sir James , ’ he commented . |
| 36 | Well , I 'm terribly sorry if I did n't add another notch to your bedpost , but look on the bright side — at least I saved you the bother of having to come up with a nice little farewell speech at the end of it all . |
| 37 | That 's when I told her the rest . |
| 38 | We never run out of conversation , although it knocked the wind out of his sails when I told him the news and he suggested I contact a faith-healer friend of his . |
| 39 | They wo n't wear it for one minute when I tell them the whole story . ’ |
| 40 | But as , as I say it was a job at that time and and in fact I 'd never , this was the only factory I had n't fancied , working in was the B M K , and yet I like it the best . |
| 41 | One about Flaubert , one about Ellen , one about myself My own is the simplest of the three — it hardly amounts to more than a convincing proof of my existence — and yet I find it the hardest to begin . |
| 42 | If those , all of those contract temps are regarded as full time people it looks like full time people are working overtime , which is why I asked you the question yesterday erm what 's the overtime bill for quotes alone . |
| 43 | That 's why I sa that 's why I told them the weekend I thought at least I 'll have something sha n't I ? |
| 44 | That 's why I told you the difference , you ca n't really |
| 45 | It 's the kind of place best avoided after dark ; it makes me think of poor Moley , and Ratty 's warning , and that 's why I call it the Wild Wood . |
| 46 | I mean we hardly went into another shop and yet , you see , we have a young chappie like yourself who comes to the Guild once every year and shows us slides of old Walsall , Walsall Wood , Aldridge , the local area , and he said I 'm not very good Ruth at talking but he he 'd got the slides you know , and it , it used to end up with me doing the commentary on Walsall Wood , because you stand on the of Walsall Wood , which is there now , and your Co-op was right on the corner which is why I call it the corner store and you see people congregated there , people met there and when I 'd been accused of the , we 'd been at the college or at other conferences and why ca n't we get Guild members today , well that was the breeding ground your shop , you see . |
| 47 | That 's why I slipped you the note this morning . |
| 48 | ‘ At times like this , ’ Bridget said sharply , ‘ I can see why I gave you the push after six weeks . |
| 49 | A actually I visited somebody the other day and you just forget you just forget . |