Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stayed right where I was on the floor telling myself I 'd be fine in just a few minutes . |
| 2 | I decided to abandon my earlier plan of just walking around until dawn and instead to try and find somewhere where I could get some sleep . |
| 3 | ‘ At 13 or 14 , I should have been taken away from my family and placed somewhere where I would have felt loved and like a real person . ’ |
| 4 | At that time I believed that the United Kingdom would be facing severe economic problems in the future , and I decided that I wanted to work somewhere where I could serve the community , and make a contribution to the resolution of those problems . |
| 5 | I replied rather coldly that I had not drunk alcohol since 1939 , and that it had been my hope that we should stop somewhere where I could wash up generally , relieve myself and have a little rest . |
| 6 | To come somewhere like this would have been better , somewhere where I had to be in at a certain time , where I could n't have certain people come in . |
| 7 | By the way , is there somewhere where I can freshen up ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You will speak to me politely or I will split my men here into two football teams with you as the ball . |
| 9 | When it was rephrased , ‘ Do you ever find yourself saying , I wish 1 could do this better or I wish I knew more about that ? ’ it was more easily understood . |
| 10 | I hope I can get plain sewing work enough where I need not spoil my fingers , but if I ca n't , I hope to mae my hands as red as blood pudding and as hard as a beechen trencher to accommodate them to my condition . |
| 11 | In the end I decided it did n't matter much where I went as long as it was up . |
| 12 | Only after 1 February can I go more or less where I please and then there is a need to work quite quickly since the ferreting season ends in April when the fast-growing vegetation and the increasing arrival of litters of young rabbits make it impractical to continue . |
| 13 | ‘ Get his boots off and get him below or I 'll sail the lot of you straight into the reef . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Perhaps where I 'm taking you is to the nearest police station … ’ |
| 15 | And a call came over the radio that there was a problem with one of the pumps downstairs , so seeing I had nothing better to do at that time I went downstairs to give them a hand . |
| 16 | ‘ Coming out of the office place opposite where I work . |
| 17 | Yeah I would s I would guess so or I would think so as well . |
| 18 | Do you know if such a list exists and if so where I might get hold of it ? |
| 19 | ‘ If we 've been doing lessons all morning , they 've usually had enough by the afternoon , so we 'll sing some songs together or I 'll tell them a story . |
| 20 | You , you could say , I 'm going to do all four walls together or I 'm going to do one wall at a time . |
| 21 | The afterdeck — of course those boats were n't so big as they are now — all where I laid , it was all over the deck . |
| 22 | The child glared at me so fiercely that I tried to ingratiate myself by asking who was her favourite composer . |
| 23 | ‘ She comes in first thing , but steer clear until about nine o'clock so I can have a chance to explain things . ’ |
| 24 | I have to get a bus at eight o'clock so I have to leave the house at twenty to eight . |
| 25 | A lot of the operations now I do I think I can do better that I 'm now seeing detail that I never saw before with the naked eye . |
| 26 | Better that I do n't that I do n't be proud better live in harmony . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's taken me 10 years to grow them this long so I do n't like hiding them completely under a hat . ’ |
| 28 | Maybe they both happened at once but from that moment everything was dreamlike and wonderful , I lost count of time as I sat there while the breathing became deep and regular and the animal began to he aware of his surroundings ; and by the time he started to look around him and twitch his tail tentatively I realized suddenly that I was stiff-jointed and almost frozen to the spot . |
| 29 | ‘ But before I could say anything I discovered suddenly that I 'd meant nothing to you but an unimportant little romantic adventure , ’ he added bitterly . |
| 30 | They came in illegally low after bombing practice on the range just down the firth , blasting over the island so suddenly that I jumped while in the delicate manoeuvre of teasing a wasp into a jar from the old tree stump near the ruined sheep-pen at the north end of the island . |