Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] i [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so I told her the whole story of my lonely childhood with the Reed family , and of my terrible experience in the red room . |
| 2 | The younger one wanted to be a sailor , and so I found him a place on a ship . |
| 3 | ‘ Lord Khan , Alexei is betrothed as you have heard to my grand-daughter , and so I consider him a member of my family . |
| 4 | Well , obviously none of us would want to separate sex from erotica , and so er , and I think we , what we 'd like , what we wanted the leaflet to do was put , put sort of sex for , for young people er and students in particular in this case into a framework that allowed loving and resp , response of attitudes and , and eroticism , yes , and so I think what the leaflet does is , is let people take care of themselves sexually and let them take responsibility for their sexual acts . |
| 5 | Well , in my book nothing comes before football and so I gave them a simple ultimatum : ‘ Make your choice . |
| 6 | And once I gave him a fish-cake for free . |
| 7 | There was an offer in the letter if my memory 's correct but it did n't actually specify what their offer was and really I think what the Council want to do is exactly what they are offering because we have to be minded all the time that the that er applicant does not own all the land and , and certainly it is , is , is the wish I think of this Council , I believe unanimously , and , and I think a lot of the residents , that we do somehow acquire a pedestrian link . |
| 8 | Then he smiled and said , ‘ And now I buy you a drink . ’ |
| 9 | And then I saw her the next day and and then I realized the and then I came back home and I told her why does n't she see there 's something changed . |
| 10 | And they 're coming I do n't think I 'm taking for a couple of months , and then I take them every fortnight . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Rachel and I wait at the little barrier in the station terminus , and again I think what an ordinary pair of holidaymakers we must look — too tatty to be honeymooners , but the same kind of contentment together . |
| 14 | The conversation was wide-ranging , but gradually I told her the full story of what had happened to me over the previous year or so . |
| 15 | But now I mean what a difference . |
| 16 | I used to think it bad enough parting from you , but now I feel it a hundred times worse . |
| 17 | I usually work him in for an hour , but when I 'm riding him around in the arena before the bell goes , I 'm still thinking , ‘ How on earth am I going to get this thing up the centre line ? ’ because he 's gawping at everything , but then I give him a jolly good boot and we get on with it … ’ |
| 18 | I made no comment on this at the time ( though privately I thought it a brash boast ) but when we met for the interview I asked if he had brought the pendulum with him . |