Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I rang you just in case you know I do n't want yo how we need the money so I thought to myself Cornwall , twenty eight ? |
| 2 | I have to warn Professor that there 's more than one party can play that game and if he thinks that it is sensible to run the affairs of this council on deliberate obstructionism on the basis that if you go on long enough you can wear people down then I think it 's unfortunate , it 's bad for this council bad for the people we serve , it does frankly nothing for local government and I ca n't blame central government if it loses patience So I recognise at the end of the day that erm Mr has had troubles with some of his erm er newcomers he obviously needs to re-establish some control over his group . |
| 3 | So I 'm a bit of a newshound so I look at both of course , see what 's what . |
| 4 | so they had like an hour break so I spent in a room . |
| 5 | take the shops just I put on my thing and |
| 6 | Five months later I have at last gained my confidence on Southall ; most of it is the trust and respect we have for each other . |
| 7 | SOME 18 months ago I wrote about my own incompetence with and dislike for the microwave oven . |
| 8 | Some twelve months ago I embarked on my year of Presidency , a daunting task some might say , and something that you can not have a ‘ trial run ’ at . |
| 9 | TWO months ago I travelled to the former Yugoslavia and visited hospitals and camps filled with the displaced and wounded of the Bosnian conflict . |
| 10 | Oh yes , er yes they were , they were er of course there was a great divide there I mean between the Liberals I mean they were the only two parties in those days . |
| 11 | Were open I mean there 's been lots of things done like that I mean you maybe aware of this sort of jazz in the Gilbey bar on Saturday lunch time and that 's been running some time then it 'll cease to come back again you know if you 'll actually counting on the people actually coming cos of the jazz there I think as your looking at it it was slightly up it was n't a was n't great influx because there was jazz available so yeah we 'll certainly look introducing things into different areas of the theatre but from past experience it does n't automatically follow that if you can do that then you know it 's gon na happen . |
| 12 | Yeah , yo like you say y , I love the kids dearly I said to Dave I bet that 's why this I weekend and he |
| 13 | Yeah he 'd got some letters , apparently he were going to Post Office later for stamps and everything and er got this letter and seeings I 'd only got three he give me his , give me twenty four pence for a stamp so I walked to Post Office , I thought well I do n't want no penny or tuppeny stamps . |
| 14 | I 've actually the last time I got some delivered for me was February so I tend to sort of get something about once a month I think . |
| 15 | We we 're , we 're , we 'd be likely to invite all of our stewards really I think from the point of view , the County Branch up to now with these meetings it 's just been our County Branch er that 's been |
| 16 | ‘ If I keep getting selected by Arsenal and England then I have to be doing something well . ’ |
| 17 | I 'll have a look , but I 've had him doing actual words , like first words er , you know erm , Ben and large and in and out and just the , the easy words and Luke and his own name , so he is already got the idea that when you write a letter you ca n't just write any letter , you 've got to make letters say something either as erm , as an alphabet or in the form of words , so of course she says to , would you all like to write me a sentence , well he 's already passed that stage , he thinks himself well I ca n't write a sentence , what he knows as a sentence consists of words that make sense , so they 're all sitting there going a N , N , N , Q , R , S , N , T , T , and they 're saying a sentence like I went to the shops with my nanny , well Alex has already passed that stage , he knows that that is n't sensible , so he must of turned to her and he said , I ca n't write like that , my mummy will shout at me |
| 18 | ‘ After all , to do the job properly I need to thoroughly understand what 's involved . ’ |
| 19 | government , it it 's various years so I hate to sort of say , ah well council taxes cuts will be a bit lower er with the conservatives going to be an argument which is but halfway to equal counties so I think we can sort of discount really what the conservatives say but I will say the liberal democrats are to be . |
| 20 | at two o'clock on Saturdays and whizzes round the town doing wheelies round the town so I said to him last night Scott sit down I want you to read something , I said take a good look at the paper , I said it could 've been you , doing that , you think you 're so fucking clever and big running round the town , I said it only takes you to lose control go up the bloody curb and bang , that 's what happened , I said think about what the hell you 're doing |
| 21 | The following day I sent him the stamps and a couple of days later I received in the post not the book but a cheque for slightly less than the value of the book and postage combined , together with the following note , which I reproduce in its entirety : ‘ Herewith a cheque for £20 . |
| 22 | ‘ Three or four days later I drove to Kensington Palace . ’ |
| 23 | A few days later I returned from a lengthy scout round the area to find a woman in those dark clothes in the kitchen putting cups on the table . |
| 24 | Seven days later I went to court and still got refused bail . |
| 25 | So I waited at the ‘ phone and Jean-Luc Ponty rang me , and two days later I auditioned at his house . |
| 26 | So a few days later I moved to an hotel , the Hotel España ( solo apartamentos ) on the Plaza Españia . |
| 27 | However , a couple of days later I moved into my bungalow and it was quite a job . |
| 28 | Two or three days later I read in the Scotsman that the jury of fifteen had found Meehan guilty by a majority verdict . |
| 29 | About two-and-a-half years later I walked into a small clothes shop to see the celebrity holding court . |
| 30 | A couple of years later I went to primary school and came under the strict , disciplined regime that was usual in Jamaica in those days . |