Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] i [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I soon realized that if I made it a bit spicy , I 'd get more than threepence for it , so I used to make up limericks , things like , |
| 2 | ‘ Read that while I get you a drink , ’ he said , handing her a piece of paper which she recognized as PA copy . |
| 3 | Although as I see it the facts do not fit easily into the existing category of duress or of claims colore officii , they shade into them . |
| 4 | Three of them floated in a sea of garlic and tomato and although I found them no better than chewy chicken my wife told me they were well up to scratch . |
| 5 | " And if I give you the job , " Fairfax went on , " how soon will you begin ? " |
| 6 | I thought Sharan a fish tank and cos I bought her a radio cassette for Christmas and she said if I wan na listen to tapes I 'll use that . |
| 7 | And because I owe you a meal from a couple of nights back . ’ |
| 8 | And since I know what the proposition means , I must know each constituent of it . |
| 9 | I was bathing you , and I fetched a clean nappy , and when I unfolded it the letter dropped out , and we read it . ’ |
| 10 | But Miss Blagden , whom I met by chance yesterday , is going to Rome and when I told her the absurdity of your request she volunteered to carry your ridiculous weapon saying she had always had a fancy to be a gun-runner and that it would be a tale to tell her friends and astonish them . |
| 11 | And when I saw it the other day , on my way from London 's West End , I could n't believe it . |
| 12 | And when I showed him a list of names I had collected ( why , I do not know , I had some notion of an appeal or inquiry ) , he read : ‘ Lynch , Connally , Egan , Kelly … etc. ’ and then he looked at me and added , ‘ I was looking at the lists of those who died in the recent great victories of general Gough at Aliwal and Sobraon in India . |
| 13 | But she added : ‘ The people at work think I 'm insane and when I showed them the video of the bungee jump it just confirmed their opinion that I 'm a lunatic . ’ |
| 14 | My eyes were shut most of the time now as I blundered round the park and when I opened them a red mist swirled . |
| 15 | and when I gave them a questionnaire saying how would you label someone as gay they said , we never make those kind of assumptions . |
| 16 | And as I saw her a cold hand closed around my heart . |
| 17 | I dream of Strathspeld , and the long summers of my childhood passed in a trance of lazy pleasure , ending with that day , running through the woods ( but I turn away from that memory , the way I 've learned to over the years ) ; I wander again through the woods and the small , hidden glens , along the shores of the ornamental lochan and the river and its loch and I 'm standing near the old boathouse in that defeatingly bright sunlight , light dancing on water , and I see two figures , naked and thin and white in the grass beyond the reed beds , and as I watch them the light turns from gold to silver and then to white , and the trees seem to shrink in on themselves , leaves disappearing in the chill coruscations of that enveloping white blaze while the view all around me becomes brighter and darker at once and all is reduced to black and white ; trees are bare and black , the ground smother-smoothed in white and the two young figures are gone , while one even smaller one — booted , gloved , coat-tails flying behind — runs laughing across the white level of the frozen loch . |
| 18 | But although I asked myself the question , I knew the answer . |
| 19 | But if I tell her the truth and insist upon it , I shall be disobeying my husband and causing his mother unnecessary worry , she reflected , and was forced to accept that having made a cross for her back , she would have to bear it . |
| 20 | All he wants to do is to get his hand inside my blouse or up my skirt , but if I gave him the chance to do anything more he 'd be so scared he 'd wet his pants . ’ |
| 21 | The vehicle was originally a petrol but before I bought it the engine was replaced with a Gold Seal factory rebuilt diesel unit . |
| 22 | But before I give you the assignment sheet , erm , how are you getting on ? |
| 23 | Yeah , but when I took her the toilet she wanted to go toilet |
| 24 | But as I handed him the money the room grew quiet again . |