Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [conj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your father was chief cook to the Maharajah of Patiala or somewhere but I ca n't boil an egg . ’ |
| 2 | You can not conceive of the feelings that consumed me when I understood — or rather when I thought I understood — why you had come tonight , when you said you wanted to share your happiness with me , wanted to give me something . |
| 3 | 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 … |
| 4 | We 'd known more or less since I 'd heard the words Jihad Islami in the Land of Grey and Pink , but they 'd never actually said it . |
| 5 | And er I 'd got a key to get in from the works into the office once I was inside , but that was access to the works you know and er I er I en I enjoyed it more or less and I must say the firm , to some extent , looked up to me and I 'd only got to have a damned machine stop , where the girls was working on this machine , and the bobbin shop and all that sort of thing , and I was able to go look er , down and say look here I want this . |
| 6 | Well no , that was another thing more or less as I was coming out the door they 'd got the news thing on and this was Australia the new prime minister , I do n't know his name , he 's running down I did n't hear it properly but I heard the gist of it , erm and it |
| 7 | Only after 1 February can I go more or less where I please and then there is a need to work quite quickly since the ferreting season ends in April when the fast-growing vegetation and the increasing arrival of litters of young rabbits make it impractical to continue . |
| 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 | In the three years or so that I have been working at Joan Allen Electronics I have become acutely aware of battery problems , in particular from the many cases where detectors have been sent back for repair needlessly . |
| 10 | One day , a year or so after I had landed at Heathrow , I was playing football in the playground , chasing the ball over the yard in the way of primary school kids , when a teacher , Mr Wright came up to me . |
| 11 | A fortnight or so after I had dictated it in October 1971 , I had a telephone call from Harold Wilson to know whether I had read Wigg 's memoirs , and was I aware of the very personal attacks on him and Marcia Williams ? |
| 12 | ‘ A week or so after I got back it was still there so I went to a doctor and said I might have picked up a parasite . |
| 13 | But erm , it was suggested about a year or so before I left , that I might take what was called The Gardeners Scholarship to erm The Royal College for the Blind , which in those days was at erm Upper Norwood S E nineteen and erm so erm I had no objections , I did n't , I did n't see any future at all in it anyway , but erm I took this erm scholarship examination , went up to the R N C to work erm some papers and to be interviewed and erm , much to my surprise they erm offered me one of these scholarships which was worth forty pounds a year for three years in the Commercial Department of the College which was an innovation really as erm primarily a College of Music for erm blind students and erm so off I went to the R N C of sixteen and erm did my three year course and got erm some R S A certificates and erm was reasonably successful I suppose I , perhaps I was n't as diligent as I should have been . |
| 14 | It was ten seconds or so before I realized I was supposed to be looking at the inside of the wooden door . |
| 15 | ‘ I want to discuss things with the owner , and it will probably be a week or so before I make up my mind . |
| 16 | The words tumbled over each other in her eagerness. ‘ 'T WOULD only be for a day or so while I try to get a message to the Queen . |
| 17 | I made a convincing show of joining in all this horse-play and appeared to enjoy it hugely for a week or so while I thought about what I could do to our cousin . |
| 18 | We need to hurry but it 'll take an hour or so and I do n't want the papers on to it before the next of kin know . |
| 19 | I am not due home for another year or so and I hope that by then a little more of the Peruvian culture and faith will have rubbed off on me . |
| 20 | now , I mean you 've been very to Neil over the last year or so and I mean now it 's time to get his act together . |
| 21 | I think it would be nice if we all got together so will we aim to do that sometime in the next month or so and I 'll tell Napier that that we 're doing that |
| 22 | There was the added complication that for the first time there would be a period of five minutes or so when I would have to shut inside my satchel not only my outdoor shoes but my gym shoes as well . |
| 23 | In the next week or so until I met up with him again I was suffused with wild imaginings . |
| 24 | When you said you had been ‘ meaning to ask me for some time ’ , did you mean over the five and a half lonely years to date of my grass widowhood or merely since I 've had no car and no earnings ? |
| 25 | Now can you write out either now or just before I or when I 've gone what you 're going to do |
| 26 | Or like when I , if I we say maybe , now I ca n't imagine feeling like that except with horse riding , but I suppose you do , whatever your thing is . |
| 27 | ‘ Possibly because the new ventilation system I 've recently supervised being installed in a factory in one of the Arab Emirates has proved so successful that I have orders for two more , or possibly because I 've just spent four weeks at full stretch in a very hot country with very little relaxation and deserve a holiday — but more probably because I own a majority stockholding in the company I bought cheap and built up to its present eminence , which gives me the position of chairman and managing director and full autonomy in deciding what I do , where I do it and with whom . ’ |
| 28 | I 've slept in it fer forty yer or more and I ent dead yet , and that basket at the end is Sammy 's bed , when he 's a mind . ’ |
| 29 | The fife sentence prisoners are not the only ones serving long sentences ; Maidstone also contained 133 men serving sentences of 10 years or more when I visited . |
| 30 | ‘ Mme Verard was in her hundredth year or more when I was fortunate enough to take in mine the hand that proved the loyal instrument of God 's will for this pagan place and its people . |