Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [adv] i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or moved up I should say , sorry . |
| 2 | Towards the end of my last year I was called by Bishop Knight and asked where I would like to serve . |
| 3 | That at least had a light showing and at first I thought the rest of the building was in total darkness , but as I crunched gravel and got closer I could see they used extra thick curtains , maybe left-overs from the Blackout . |
| 4 | I smiled to myself as I let in the clutch and moved off I would stop at the shop and tell the little man that he could collect his pans without the slightest fear of being torn limb from limb , but my overriding emotion was one of relief that I had not cut the sparkle out of the big dog 's life . |
| 5 | When I 've got dressed and tidied up I 'll have a look at it . |
| 6 | One Friday afternoon , I looked steadily at one of those great green trees for ten minutes , and knew then I would not want to teach in grammar schools for ever . |
| 7 | But er , when I got ti all tidied up and sorted out I 'll get myself a new one , but er |
| 8 | Cath 's just put a few things together and thought well I may as well let you , you know , she may as well let you know what the things she 's put in |
| 9 | My mother I remember there was a sale of work going on at Palfrey church once and bef I had just been made apprentice at Wolverhampton and of course I got amongst the , they , when they came the , the Derby day they were all having a bet on it so I , I said to the give them half a crown , so he said you ca n't have half a crown and he said what do you want it for so I said they 're putting it on a horse was on this horse it won , so of course this sale of work was in great progress when I gets off the train at station and thought well I could n't understand in er Palfrey Church Hall , so she was there in all her finery and I said we 've won , we 've won she said shut up , shut up she said but erm no I think the biggest character in Caldmore was Father . |
| 10 | ‘ I worked all my life and saved so I would have no worry when I retired but it 's a different story now . |
| 11 | swap him that and said here I 'll give |
| 12 | and said well I 'll do an extra shift , I 'll do an extra week shift if you give me my job back it 's a shame |
| 13 | So he , he thought he 'd do an experiment , er he took a small piece of radium which he 'd extracted from several tons of pitchblende and he put this bit of radium on his forearm and , and put a bandage round to hold it in place and left it there for a week and said right I 'll see what happens . |
| 14 | Ag again with the , the recommendations I think you , you , you went on to say can I , can I go forward in , in getting the recommendations erm without actually explaining what you were doing , you just came back and said so I 'll go ahead and get the recommendations and come back and see you in two weeks ' time and like what recommendation ? |
| 15 | I remembered that they had been there all along , and wondered how I could ever have forgotten them . |