Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | She had been a mother of sons only and I think now that she would have liked me to call her mother ; but then , such an idea never entered my head . |
| 2 | We have been spinning coins together since I do n't know when , and in all that time ( if it is all that time ) I do n't suppose either of us was more than a couple of gold pieces up or down . |
| 3 | Here I want to vary the times so that I hear from a true cross-section of our listeners , and those who listen to the graveyard shift , for instance , probably never hear the breakfast show . |
| 4 | I could hear voices somewhere as I looked around , studying the portraits , examining the marquetry of the chairs and tables , all of which were ranged formally about the walls . |
| 5 | I came to the braided reaches of the river where it swung out over the sands , and adjusted my steps so that I cleared all the channels easily and cleanly , a leap at a time . |
| 6 | ‘ Thanks anyway but I want to get back to the hotel and soak my shoulder in a hot bath . |
| 7 | There were rows of cars outside when I went , and you had to take a ticket with a number when you sat down . |
| 8 | Accordingly I went ahead and circulated all potential volunteers with a call for the weekends of June 12-13 and June 19-20 , which at the time was two months away and I assumed this would allow enough time for SNH approval to come through . |
| 9 | I prefer to leave pictures just as I finish them in front of the subject . |
| 10 | We married 18 months later and I thought I knew him fairly well . |
| 11 | But we forgot to dispose of the discarded furnishings , and six months later when I went to spend a few days with a senior Burmese colleague , he showed me with great satisfaction his small-town church , furnished with the discarded pews , pulpit , litany desks , with the collection bags being changed according to the ecclesiastical season ! |
| 12 | This possibility was confirmed some months later when I received a letter from the mother of one of the men in Leslie 's ‘ stick , ( as a unit of paratroops dropped together from one aircraft was called ) . |
| 13 | He was still in hospital five months later when I finished my tour . |
| 14 | It has been almost three months now since I have been home here in England after spending three weeks holiday in France with my friend Rachel and her family . |
| 15 | I 've been lurking for a couple of months now and I had a couple thoughts : |
| 16 | So I do n't think I 've ever I 've had it for about eight months now and I do n't think I 've yet listened to all five in a row without changing it . |
| 17 | ‘ There are certain songs now that I leave open for improvisation ; I play something different every night instead of playing the solo from the record . |
| 18 | ‘ So when I look at the books now and I see all the symbols and all the stuff they do , I think ‘ Well , I 've already played this , and I 'm not really interested in reading it ! ’ |
| 19 | I 'll swear all the clocks in the world have gone centuries slower since I came here . |
| 20 | that 's it yeah , I 'm , I 'm , I 'm , I 'm vaguely recalling it now because it was six months ago since I saw Mick 's but er , yeah that sounds about right |
| 21 | I find it odd that the position has so changed compared with 15 months ago when I became Secretary of State , when some Conservative Members were alleging that standards had declined and Opposition Members were denying those allegations . |
| 22 | The experiment I was doing all those months ago when I began writing this book , which I described in Chapter 2 , involved using the sugar fucose as a precursor for glycoprotein . |
| 23 | It 's been fully serviced up to 4 months ago when I bought it . |
| 24 | Now that would not be what one would expect er two months ago if I 'd said well look you know that 's that 's what the revolution 's gon na bring about you would 've said I do n't believe you . |
| 25 | ‘ I presented the district health authority with a list of questions on this three months ago and I 've had no reply . |
| 26 | Does n't bother me You , Stu and I have been broken hearted a few months ago and I 've cried over him not coming to see me but not any more . |
| 27 | No , I 've been saying they booked me about two months ago and I 've been saying that they have a deposit |
| 28 | Sandra : Wanny told me that months ago and I do n't believe it any more than he does . |
| 29 | That was about 2 months ago and I have received only one reply , to tell me that they could n't help me . |
| 30 | They were using pictures well and I felt as if I could contribute . ’ |