Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] i [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Or perhaps I mean a hurricane . |
| 2 | Or perhaps I made a mistake : you can see which I 'd rather believe . |
| 3 | or perhaps I make a rissole sometimes , but not put any onion |
| 4 | ‘ Every year when I come to Faalifu for four months or so I engage a resident pianist from California . |
| 5 | If I reply that in choosing between flavours it does not matter whether or not I confound a present taste with remembered sight and touch , whether I respond to reality or to illusion , I am renouncing rational discourse altogether . |
| 6 | Inside , the stove kept me warm while I cooked or whenever I made a mug of tea which was three or four times a night . |
| 7 | Now what happened was originally that I lost compression on pistons three and four and it worked out there was a very thin channel from piston three to four on the head gasket and erm basically it ruined part of the engine and the whole report said that basically I want a new engine . |
| 8 | ‘ I feel irritated that whenever I make a suggestion you say ‘ Yes but ’ . ’ |
| 9 | Over the years I have bought many Pearl recordings and although occasionally I find a particular passage hard to live with , I would find it difficult not to play any of the following at least twice a year : Otello with Martinelli/Tibbett ; Bruno Walter conducting Mahler in 1936 and 1938 ( Das Lied von der Erde and the Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 ) ; the pre-war Glyndebourne recordings with Busch ; the 1935 Vienna Rosenkavalier with Lotte Lehmann and Gerhard Hüsch singing Schubert 's Winterreise and Die Schöne Müllerin . |
| 10 | When I wh went to Yorkshire , in , we lived at Leeds , I could n't get a job and eventually I got a job er in a electrical firm . |
| 11 | But my hunch proved right , I came across a few likely looking names and phone numbers and eventually I found a breeder in Bow , East London , who had several barn owls , all brothers and sisters , who would be the perfect training age for me . |
| 12 | And eventually I found a job er as assistant to the er clerking to the rating officer , who had also been a member of t , who was a member of the chapel , and er knew I was looking for a job and er , I had n't written to him cos I did n't know this one was coming up . |
| 13 | But then I got promoted at work and suddenly I had a salary to borrow against . |
| 14 | And so I follow a nervous , |
| 15 | This piece needed a simpler frame , and so I chose a fairly straightforward gold frame that would harmonise with , rather than detract from , the overall design . |
| 16 | And he said not at all , not at all and I said well I do want the people to know that , you know we , although we tribute to of the lost lives in the two World Wars , we are now striving for peace and so I wound a few white poppies . |
| 17 | He did all the right things and so I had a way out . |
| 18 | I needed to earn a bit of extra money when I went on the tour and so I became a professional wrestler in my spare time . |
| 19 | And so I became a beneficiary again of the orifice revolution . |
| 20 | And so I became a she-wolf myself , and rescued them and suckled them . |
| 21 | I had a huge living room that needed repainting and so I invited a few friends along , asked them to bring a paint-brush each and I supplied the food and drink . |
| 22 | Today is an Edinburgh holiday and so I have a day off — a good opportunity to catch up with various things , and the plumber is arriving shortly to re-seal my bath . |
| 23 | ‘ Soon I thought I might as well try to get into a band and so I answered a few ads in Melody Maker and joined a few bands . |
| 24 | And perhaps I know a short-cut or two to Frizingley Hall , which ought not to surprise you |
| 25 | In the moonlight I walked sadly around , until suddenly I saw a woman 's figure in the shadows . |
| 26 | thinking , Oh if only I spent a bit more time |
| 27 | If only I had a crinoline to sweep down the grand staircase in ! |
| 28 | If only I had a duck 's back instead of wafer thin skin . |
| 29 | If only I had a ghost . |
| 30 | ‘ If only I had a pretty voice — I 'm quite without tune , am I not ? ’ |