Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] [pron] [verb] i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Clients have to be — and are — aware that I 've got a young family and that if they ring me after 5pm there are likely to be children screaming for their tea in the background . ’ |
| 2 | I 'm pleased you think that because it gets me off the hook now . |
| 3 | Cos I remember once when they asked me at work to deliver the annual speech you know the man that asked me he says er , you know , they 've gone round everybody else and nobody else would do it and would I do it , and I said good lord , that were my first reaction , and I realized like all the company secretaries lo lord , so I did very well there |
| 4 | If that 's what the women want , then let them have it , and if anyone accuses me of ulterior motives such as laziness , squeamishness or Freudian anxieties about symbolic castration by infant sons — I deny it all . |
| 5 | I 've seen her several times and before you rang me at the theatre , she had promised to find out where you were and tell me . ’ |
| 6 | And when they lay me in my wedding dress on that table , I 'll have my revenge on him ! ’ |
| 7 | And when they hit me with the INSET thing it was the summer term , the first half of the summer term and I was beginning to fray at the edges , as far as I 'd just got things going , and it was just like something else on top of a lot of pressure already . |
| 8 | And when they banned me from playing cricket for a month , they actually did me a favour . |
| 9 | And when they rang me about the killing and somebody said , ‘ your friend 's been murdered , ’ I said , ‘ You 're talking rubbish . ’ ’ |
| 10 | I 've signed this contract , I like this place , and I 'll be happy to look after both surgeries as and when you wish me to . ’ |
| 11 | I will well , therefore , that you should , as you have said , deal for me as you may , and when you summon me to conference with your own warranty , I will not hesitate to come . |
| 12 | Yet he had photographs of her in every jacket pocket , and they fell out of books at the wrong time and upset Eva ; and when he asked me about Mum , Dad and I had to go into another room , away from Eva , as if we were discussing something disgraceful . |
| 13 | The closest we get together is when we dance and when he slaps me on the arse and that 's about it . |
| 14 | He just leaned on me and when he caught me with a left hook I was given a standing count . |
| 15 | ‘ And he tried to put his tongue in my mouth and when he pulled me in the doorway he — he unfastened the front of his trousers . ’ |
| 16 | Nevertheless , she had deep and peaceful eyes , and when she passed me by she only smiled ; she asked me for nothing . |
| 17 | No I think what it is I understand it now but if you ask me in a couple of weeks |
| 18 | But if you had me on the table or on the trolley in intensive care — the submarine blip of the oscilloscope ( like a lost code ) , the richly sighing respirator-then I 'd be going , going , tumbling end over end . |
| 19 | ‘ No problem , but if you want me in the village do n't you think I 'd better get some transport of my own ? |
| 20 | But before you tell me about it , frankly I 'm in need of a stiff drink . |
| 21 | I mean I could choose not to do an album , but when they asked me to an album that was exciting to say yes . |
| 22 | From the memo it looks as though you ask me for the form as P.A. to Head of Group . |