Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] i [verb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I would n't say I enjoyed it , but it went much better than I expected and my audience were very appreciative . |
| 3 | I mean is there anybody here , who honestly ca n't think of anybody who they know , I mean , perhaps if I try and rephrase that , is there anybody here who can not think of somebody who 's suffered an illness that fits into that critical illness er , category . |
| 4 | And he came in and I said and the mirror on the dressing table is n't done . |
| 5 | ‘ Only if I forget and twist it , ’ he said shortly , and pulled a groundsheet and two tightly rolled sleeping-bags out of the pannier . |
| 6 | ‘ I ask myself every hour now if we might not have held him and still drawn off well enough if I had but kept a better watch on the road to Shrewsbury . |
| 7 | There ai n't no chairs or carpet or nothing , so if I go and see him I have to sit on the floor . |
| 8 | She thought : I must be here because it does n't matter to me much whether I live or die . |
| 9 | ‘ That was something I missed terribly when I retired and doing this race for the first time is a way of replacing it . ’ |
| 10 | yep , and we developed theo that business here in fact in Suffolk , we were the very first Fire Brigade to , to do it in the seventies , er our own workshops made them erm the units and are now still making them , and the ideas were original ideas on , on , on the equipment and we made about three or four in , in when I retired and I think they made several others now like canteen vans , and erm breathing apparatus , er and so on . |
| 11 | last night actually and it did n't exactly help , well , it 's a long trip up here , longer than I expected and I did n't |
| 12 | Not that I mind but it just means things like painting and decorating what you looking |
| 13 | And then I switched over and I thought but it 's a about this little boy . |
| 14 | Not because I suppose and I must condemn any particulars group we all , in the end said not this time . |
| 15 | ’ Could you take over while I go and have my lunch , you see , come on I 'll show you what to do ’ I got on the tractor , he said ’ turn in and go out round and come in again at the edge . ’ |
| 16 | I wo n't ever forget you , lad ; not while I live and breathe , I wo n't . |
| 17 | I bid around £2 million for him shortly after I arrived but it was turned down . |
| 18 | He joined the Gwili Railway shortly after I did and on the very same day as my cousin Paul Lucas , but since then Roger has contributed more to the railway than either of us . |
| 19 | I see the sign saying Welcome to Inverness just as I remember where I left the car and where I left from this morning and just before I turn and stamp to the nearest desk and demand in my highest dudgeon to be taken to Edinburgh on a charted Lear if necessary or limoed immediately to the highest-starred hotel within a reasonable radius for a free overnight dinner , bed and breakfast and unlimited bar tab . |
| 20 | Since just before I moved and it triggered it off . |
| 21 | Do exactly as I say or I 'll cover the mattress with your brains , understand me ? ’ |
| 22 | And the fact that are four per cent cheaper than us and as soon as I mention and increase he says , well if it 's dual source we 've been told to look at the cheapest source of supply as single source . |
| 23 | At first it was part of a dream , which vanished as soon as I woke and knew that I was alone on the broch island , lying on the turf in a sleeping-bag , with my head pillowed on my rolled-up sweater , but seemingly connected with the earth itself , from which , apparently right below my head , came a sound every bit as strange as the mermaids ' song of the seals . |
| 24 | I was even more pleased to find that all of them could see me almost immediately , and the one I chose inspected the car as soon as I arrived and had the quote dropped through my letterbox the next morning . |
| 25 | I had n't really thought about it , it 's erm it all depends on what farm I 'm going on cos I 've or erm cows an , cows and bullocks , you know . |
| 26 | Well , there I was in London , penniless ; like the man in the gospel , I was too proud to go home so I begged and fought with the rest of the dispossessed in the dirty alleyways and streets of Whitechapel , Alsatia , and even across London Bridge amongst the stews of Southwark . |
| 27 | I — I went further than I intended and I fell over . |
| 28 | Well , they thought they were superior because their trade was classified Grade I and Met was only Grade 2 , so they got paid more than I did and considered they were a cut above me in every way . |
| 29 | But anyway I gave , it 's fifty P I gave the lass who was selling it a pound you see and she said here you are waiting to give me my change , I said no , no and she said and I said to her I said you know you need it more than I do and she she got tears in her eyes and I I thought I mean I I do n't know if I can articulate this properly . |
| 30 | I actually took all those letters home and I went and I listed all the things that were listed er mentioned in all the letters and also that I tried to consider giving you know my impression of the meeting and tried putting exactly what what they 're saying . |