Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] i [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The child glared at me so fiercely that I tried to ingratiate myself by asking who was her favourite composer . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | It looked a scrappy goal , but slightly better once I had seen what really happened on the telly . |
| 4 | I 've also adopted the philosophy that I must develop somebody to do my job better than I have done it . |
| 5 | Ca n't say I 've learnt much although I 've started it again and again in the last two years . |
| 6 | Wo n't take me long once I get going its just the getting going bit busy day tomorrow have n't we ? |
| 7 | He had n't slept in a bed like that before , yet there were all those advertisements for them on television , and they were on display in shop windows and in almost all the big stores in London so that I 'd imagined them in all the houses I could see from the bus . |
| 8 | Though the voice was larded with the tones owed to ‘ land in the family ’ , the man himself was decent , polite , unpretentious , and unpatronising throughout the half hour or so that I spent photographing him . |
| 9 | He had hinted as much more than once , just vaguely , just enough to entice me so that I want to ask what , so that he knows that I want to ask . |
| 10 | He thinks it 's fun to hang onto the back of my coat with a grip of iron , so that I have to take my coat off and pry him loose . |
| 11 | Actually , that definition of an operator proves to be a bit too general so that I have to narrow my choice somewhat , in a way I shall describe shortly . |
| 12 | So that I wanted to defend him from the beginning . |
| 13 | Only that I 've heard it before . |
| 14 | ‘ Only that I 've seen them before . ’ |
| 15 | I do n't know why ; only that I want to hear my voice on the answerphone . |
| 16 | Perhaps if I 'd entered him for the Champion Hurdle , he might have sold . |
| 17 | Perhaps if I had allowed myself to be doubtful , I might have understood Mick 's concern about the rules , and his inability to express it without aggressive confrontation . |
| 18 | I had butterflies in my stomach enough and I had to do something , so I grabbed the nearest paw , which belonged to Merlyn Rees . |
| 19 | ‘ Nor have you wanted them from me , You 'd never have stayed around so long if I 'd pushed you about . ’ |
| 20 | you know the , the things alone and I said get your hands off those doors I do n't like polishing , so he 's come for a cloth and the polish |
| 21 | So if I said show me something that 's arm 's length from your right shoulder north , or up , or west or some way , okay , or on a bearing of thirty seven degrees |
| 22 | And if Oliver wants to see me — which might be a good idea if I can talk some sense into him — then I 'll only do so if I 've cleared it with Stuart first . |
| 23 | ‘ So if I went to see her … ? ’ he probed . |
| 24 | But it is poisonous so if I start smelling it I 'm going have to switch the cupboard on to suck the fumes away . |
| 25 | I would save some money and then I would find a man to marry me , especially if I promised to bring him to London . |
| 26 | I thought it would 've been a bit better but I did enjoy it , I did enjoy it . |
| 27 | Coming out of the meeting , a lady was heard remarking , ‘ Mr Ramsey spoke very nicely but I do think he is young to be Master of a College ’ ; for she thought that he was the new Master of Magdalene whose name was the same except for the spelling . |
| 28 | Or perhaps because I 've lulled her with bedtime stories embroidering our favourite theme : once upon a time there was a girl named Gittel , who had a curse called down upon her … |
| 29 | Perhaps because I have proven I am no mere parasite , and have helped her knock out one dazzling 1,500-word column for Outsider in record time . |
| 30 | But the bank wo n't crash merely because I 've bought you a cup of tea and a few Carnival cakes . ’ |