Example sentences of "[adv] i [verb] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I thought it no less than my duty to book us into somewhere special on the west coast for a week . |
| 2 | You know given that life is as it is are you okay and he said yes so I went round the gardens and I came back to him and I had a friend coming for lunch and I thought this is ridiculous , I 'm going to have something to drink and I 'm going to have a meal so I made him an enormous great wad of cheese sandwiches and some apples and a piece of cake and some biscuits and a cup of tea and I went downstairs with the milk and the sugar and cup of tea and all this stuff and I went into the gardens and this poor child he looked very defensively a second time and I said well I thought you might like some breakfast and I wrapped the second lot up so if you 've nothing later on , why not put it in your pocket and eat later in the day and I did n't know whether you took milk or sugar , so I thought I 'd better just ask you and do you know I thought he was going to cry . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Well , in my book nothing comes before football and so I gave them a simple ultimatum : ‘ Make your choice . |
| 5 | So I cook one the other day , and I cook one this morning , I 've pressure cooked one for him , but he would n't look at it Reg is definitely |
| 6 | So I found him a small house called Kirk o'Field , outside Edinburgh . |
| 7 | Tonight I find you the special number one steak , and the best wine . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Yesterday I fed him the bony scraps from my reindeer stew and he is now mine for ever . |
| 10 | ‘ Let it work its way through him , ’ said Ellen to Brenda , ‘ let it work its way through and out ; the harder I put it the faster it will happen . ’ |
| 11 | A minute later I give him a smaller brown one back . |
| 12 | Often he was right , often I gave him a bad time for sticking his nose in . |
| 13 | I used to think it bad enough parting from you , but now I feel it a hundred times worse . |
| 14 | Well I tell you the best one is |
| 15 | And everybody says , Well I gave you a hundred , I gave him five , you |
| 16 | Many years ago I knitted myself a sleeveless jumper in mercerised cotton ; this stretched in the wash until it was more like a mini-dress . |
| 17 | Then I made him a little tent to sleep in , but for a few weeks I always took my gun to bed with me . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | A actually I visited somebody the other day and you just forget you just forget . |