Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marlowe was charming , witty , and very , very funny , but there was something about Millet I did n't like . ) |
| 2 | I 've no idea yet , really what , I mean , you know , for instance I do n't know how much ratio staff to patients they need , therefore you ca n't really , you know , follow that up because you 've no idea what the costs themselves could be . |
| 3 | it 's between bit I do n't like |
| 4 | I 'm getting the blame for crime I did n't commit . |
| 5 | How people can drink it for pleasure I do n't know . |
| 6 | okay , again I mean these are things that talk about confirmation I mean quite honestly I 'm I 'd be quite happy if we had offices where people talk to each other ninety per cent of the time rather than send memos and faxes to each other , and on the whole we are really talking about inside the office with the people who we work with I mean obviously clients as well trying to find something different , we tend tend to find that it 's very very easy sometimes to make a phone call it 's much easier to make a phone call and to talk to that person and give them the personal touch . |
| 7 | true , then there 's another thing about religion I 've often wondered , they say you go to heaven do n't they ? well , so well |
| 8 | After tea I went out and saw Ryan . |
| 9 | I was very talkative before marriage but after marriage I do n't know what happened to me . |
| 10 | After supper I walked up and down in the corridor for a bit . |
| 11 | The next morning after breakfast I crossed over to Demetriades 's table . |
| 12 | After breakfast I ventured forth , and was at once overwhelmed by the beauty and the scale of the buildings . |
| 13 | After breakfast I started afresh . |
| 14 | Time after time I ran away and my social worker could see that I was n't happy . |
| 15 | Time after time I stumbled over some hummock of tough grass , and once I went into a creek up to my shoulders . |
| 16 | No , if if you fail this coming back after Christmas I did n't actually |
| 17 | Worst case of heatstroke I 've ever seen ’ |
| 18 | Anyway , if I could just erm describe how I managed to get there in the first place , which was all a matter of luck I suppose as much as anything erm I went to the East Anglian schools for erm blind and deaf children at Gorleston on Sea from nineteen twenty eight to nineteen thirty six , erm , in those days erm education for the er disabled er continued until sixteen . |
| 19 | But of course I knew where she was , and that she was calling at Genoa . |
| 20 | That was very interesting and I thought a good write up of and the things that he did , there to survive the World War Two and of course I go back to when the crews were formed and we flew together training at Pyo Texas and at er Dallasburgh , Tennessee and then from there went overseas , we went to er Scotville , Illinois and picked up new planes in Petermover and it was , we went to Stagen area . |
| 21 | Well I say happy , that 's a term of course I use loosely in that context . |
| 22 | Of course I got nowhere and she found out all she cared to know about me ( though not about my friends ) . |
| 23 | On balance I would definitely have preferred the latter , but of course I got neither ( that 's families again for you ) . |
| 24 | So of course I went away down to the Station and the folk came off the Edinburgh train and that , and this gentleman and lady were left and of course I approached them , I says , by any chance , I says , are you Professor . |
| 25 | That 's in the oh a lot of people did , oh yes , lot of people spent the money but I was one of the fortunate ones I had a little bit left because I mean I was , er I was very lucky myself , I mean I had a decent job at that time from time I left school and when I was on the dredging plant , I mean you take er in nineteen twenty five when er a schoolboy left school , his money was about ten shillings a week as an errand boy but I was one of the fortunate being a cabin boy on the dredger , I was getting thirty five shillings a week which was a lot of money and then after a few months they , I , they wanted another deck hand , so of course I went on there on four pound a week and then I was well off . |
| 26 | being on the railway and er , you see , er and of course I went then under his pass I suppose Mr and Mrs then and er and then of course we started to er when my parents first died we , we started to get around . |
| 27 | And er and then er of course I went back to me mother after me grandmother died , I went to me mother and er mind you when I was th young there was a lot of poverty about you know there was er no security pay and no er and you could n't get any money from anywhere or anything like that you know and er so it used to er had to do the best you can . |
| 28 | Of course I came down to earth on my next round . |
| 29 | After a while , though , when I 'd turned down the side-street where the house was I hoped ) , there were no more sounds to frighten me , and as a result of course I grew much more afraid of the stuffed , dripping silence . |
| 30 | Of course I worry about that because I 'm a human being , but that can make you paralysed . |