Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was worth doing , or so I thought at the time . |
| 2 | As I say , I could have destroyed you , or so I thought at the time , but you 've turned out to be a lot tougher than I had imagined … not vulnerable or confused at all . |
| 3 | She was a real beauty , or so I thought at the time . |
| 4 | ‘ As I said , it 's up to you , ’ said this stupid young man , who could have done anything he liked to me — or so I felt at that moment — if only he had done it , and not talked about it first , trying to strike a bargain . |
| 5 | For eighteen months or more I suffered from chest spasms or a form of acute asthma . |
| 6 | I must 've spilt summat or maybe I trod in a puddle cos my trousers are all wet and cold . |
| 7 | ‘ Very merry , and the best fritters that ever I eat in my life . ’ |
| 8 | All I was going to say was that clearly I agree with one thing , but one would assume that as the paper is a really a general outline that we would be seeing specific targets as the agenda 's worked through over the next two three years . |
| 9 | ‘ There were so many similarities between the Pan Am crash and this one that now I lean towards sabotage , ’ said Les Filotas , one of the four Canadian dissenters . |
| 10 | You know I 'm I 'm spending money and time on him that really I suppose in theory I would be spending on my own grandchildren . |
| 11 | I was conscious that here I belonged to a community with roots in the distant past and a distinguished place in British history . |
| 12 | I have n't had a period for over a year , and although sometimes I think to myself ‘ I 'm all right really ’ , then I remember I have n't got my periods back and I realise that it 's not as simple as it seems . |
| 13 | Having now met each other , it seemed that everywhere I went on camp I would come face to face with him , usually with his entourage of armourers fanning out behind him . |
| 14 | I think what was different in my approach , and it partly goes back to my background , is that firstly I had been working on educational planning , and that secondly I come from a background of market research . |
| 15 | We made straight back to the airport and I was put on a Rhodesian plane for Salisbury , where negotiations were renewed and eventually I returned to London . |
| 16 | This sort of behaviour is very irritating and eventually I resorted to giving him a kick . |
| 17 | And then er , there 's a long line of changing jobs and eventually I came to Dudley . |
| 18 | Mrs Field was such a grand lady , and eventually I moved to Lartington to become her lady 's maid . |
| 19 | I 'm sure that when I came out of the room I was staggering , and instinctively I pawed at my mouth . |
| 20 | replied the doctor in his delightful Scottish accent ( and rather I think with a lovely Highland lilt to it ) . |
| 21 | He 's almost halfway across and suddenly I go from being terrified and annoyed to being exhilarated , intoxicated ; overjoyed . |
| 22 | Miss Sowerby — by now an enthusiastic convert — and I had taken turns at massaging the damaged calf muscles , and suddenly I said to him , ‘ Jimbo , just imagine it 's you that 's making the muscles move . ’ |
| 23 | And then expand on it , and so I go into each of these and I go to the and I say a few words about each of these particular themes . |
| 24 | Because they 're geared to Marks and Spencers , now there 's the advert for them they work with , with mass production , that 's where it goes wrong because we 've lost our individuality and so I go to the Italians in order to get the sort of yarns they offer me , now they 're the sort of yarns they offer me . |
| 25 | And so I looked at my uneasy mistress with an anxious and angry eye which she was unable to meet . |
| 26 | And so I resort to buying bottled water . |
| 27 | And so I took with I say with her blessing , took a er a picture of it for posterity . |
| 28 | And so I wake in the night panic stricken over a lack of fuel . |
| 29 | He knew exactly what he wanted and so I relied on him one hundred per cent . |
| 30 | An evening thunderstorm suggested that the situation would not be CAVOK , and so I struggled with the telephone . |