Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] i [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The child glared at me so fiercely that I tried to ingratiate myself by asking who was her favourite composer . |
| 2 | I have to get a bus at eight o'clock so I have to leave the house at twenty to eight . |
| 3 | ‘ But before I could say anything I discovered suddenly that I 'd meant nothing to you but an unimportant little romantic adventure , ’ he added bitterly . |
| 4 | It looked a scrappy goal , but slightly better once I had seen what really happened on the telly . |
| 5 | So although I had expected a life of some leisure , I found myself lucky to be apprenticed to a carpenter in Kendal . |
| 6 | I was the only sane one , so although I hated to ask , I took the plunge . |
| 7 | Because it was no use to the farmer , there was no water to be seen there , and I thought I could do it with my own garden tools , and so once I 'd removed all the rough brambles and so on and discovered the periphery of the old pond |
| 8 | So once I had passed through the obligatory outskirts of post-war , multi-storey housing estates and entered a labyrinth of blackened buildings in canyon-like streets with traffic jammed solid , I knew I had to be somewhere near the town centre . |
| 9 | ‘ Christ , is n't it bad enough that I have to scrape for every bloody penny to do a piece of vital research , without being forced to turn my project into a circus for a lot of gawping idiots who wo n't have the least comprehension of what I 'm trying to do ? |
| 10 | ‘ I 've wanted to do much better than I 've done . |
| 11 | Of course I would have enjoyed the occasion much more had I been in better shape , but in the event it all went better than I had dared hope even if I was near to passing out at times . |
| 12 | And yet , ’ said Philip , shivering as the bleak little wind from Severn ruffled his grey tonsure , ‘ I swear he has received very tolerable usage there , better than I dared expect , and why he keeps such a particular hatred against the lord Isambard is something I can not fathom . |
| 13 | Pennett was offered a one-season trial on Johnson 's recommendation , and says : ‘ It has so far gone better than I dared to hope . |
| 14 | I 've also adopted the philosophy that I must develop somebody to do my job better than I have done it . |
| 15 | ‘ You thought perhaps that I had forgotten about your existence ? ’ |
| 16 | Ca n't say I 've learnt much although I 've started it again and again in the last two years . |
| 17 | Wo n't take me long once I get going its just the getting going bit busy day tomorrow have n't we ? |
| 18 | Then she reached over and gently tilted my chin up so that I had to look into her eyes . |
| 19 | So much so that I had to threaten to call the police . ’ |
| 20 | The shabby room above the tobacconist 's shop where we held our ward meetings became home to me and , in a queer way , made me feel whole and integrated again so that I began to look back on the activities I had taken part in with Sophie as some kind of mental aberration . |
| 21 | He had n't slept in a bed like that before , yet there were all those advertisements for them on television , and they were on display in shop windows and in almost all the big stores in London so that I 'd imagined them in all the houses I could see from the bus . |
| 22 | So like , there was me sort of all of a sudden wearing like old T-shirts and stuff in bed so that I 'd got quite high collars and mum was sort of going |
| 23 | So generally to make it , to make it straightforward , I tend to er differentiate , so that I 've got some in the ta the non-taxpayer 's name up to the limit , and then a joint account perhaps which will be usable by both of them er for instant access , that type of thing . |
| 24 | Just so that I 've got some idea of er |
| 25 | So that I 've got room to walk . |
| 26 | I ca n't do it , so that I 've got to get full marks for the exam to pass , without the other two bits on it , I ca n't do that |
| 27 | Really so that I 've got more lines up there , not like , when they 're I 've got plenty of lines you see . |
| 28 | Though the voice was larded with the tones owed to ‘ land in the family ’ , the man himself was decent , polite , unpretentious , and unpatronising throughout the half hour or so that I spent photographing him . |
| 29 | Once again I felt the mysterious pleasure of being in an elevated Oxford chamber at night , among cloud and star , — so that I seemed to join in the inevitable motion of the planets , — and as I saw the sea of roofs and horned turrets and spires I knew that , although architecture is a dead language , here at least it speaks strongly and clearly , pompous as Latin , subtle as Greek . |
| 30 | He had hinted as much more than once , just vaguely , just enough to entice me so that I want to ask what , so that he knows that I want to ask . |