Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately , the corner hedge of an adjacent field was in a direct line with the site , so I moved forward a few paces , switched on my metal detector and started swinging it in an arc before me . |
| 2 | Pater 's as busy as ever , of course , but the mater has kept on the house in London since Madeleine 's season , so I spend quite a lot of time in the Great Big City seeing shows , etc. etc . |
| 3 | If I take away a positive number of course that 's taken as normal take away . |
| 4 | So if I take away a negative number it 's the same as adding . |
| 5 | Yeah cos they only took a hundred and something , but he said if I take about a hundred and something pound a day |
| 6 | ‘ You will not mind , Mama , if I take only a small allowance from you and Papa ? ’ |
| 7 | Yeah well if I had like a little dictaphone on or something like that |
| 8 | I 'm sure if I give just a few more pushes — |
| 9 | BOP until I drop once a week . |
| 10 | And finally , staying with generalities on migration , I think it behoves us all to be a bit cautious because I see quite a lot of fantasy and fiction around in in this E I P and I 'd be guilty of it myself at times . |
| 11 | It is a learning experience for me because I have only a general knowledge of the economic and financial world . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ When I came here a month ago , they did n't have any confidence . |
| 13 | I mean I would open my eyes and see myself like that , wake up and then I 'd bounce off the bed and then I 'd sit there bouncing and , and but I have n't had that in a long time and wh when I thought now a lot of times , if I think that I leave either the front door unlocked , my house unlocked or the garage door open I go and actually check that in the middle of the night . |
| 14 | When I pushed open a door leading to a better-lit corridor , I realized that I was on an upper level of the main administrative building of the spaceport . |
| 15 | ‘ And as I intimated just a moment ago , ’ his voice was coldly mocking as he threw her words back at her , ‘ I need a haircut . ’ |
| 16 | Well that was kept by fella called and they could get the beer off-licence , although it was n't , it was n't so far to the Old Naked Inn and then there was a pub on the corner of , I ca n't remember the name of that because they 've opened it too young to remember pubs in them days but er , apart from the off-licence there was no actual public inn on Street , there was off-licence , as I say just a few yards down was the Old Naked Inn and there was a pub on the top of just on the side of . |
| 17 | I hesitated , and as I did so a big stone that marked the outer edge of the track began to move . |
| 18 | I wonder if I could answer that in a in a different way because clearly rather there 's the option , rather than reduction the operational capability which was really the er initiative that had begun in nineteen ninety two , there is the option of course of er adjusting the total numbers and that would er have an overall bearing on the total programme cost but cert because certainly the judgement of the er the chiefs of staff was that er as far as the U K was concerned then we we should retain the operational capability as I explained earlier an n and not decrease it in any significant extent because if we did that then we could end up er with an inferior capability against a potential threat . |
| 19 | Then as I hauled inexorably a nose appeared , then a head , then all of the big animal hanging limply by his collar . |
| 20 | At a recent meeting of the , I believe the , first of the Estuaries Management Committee Meetings for the Orwell and the Stour I was approached by the R S P B representative and was delighted to be asked , how soon is the pamphlets that we 're jointly publishing coming out and I said , oh that 's a jolly good idea , what 's happening , and he tells me that the R Y A's name is to be published with the R S P B and this can do nothing but help our image as we will all appreciate in here , perhaps we need to remember that the gun clubs call themselves , the Gun and Convers Conservation Societies , the wide wise wild fowlers call themselves the Wild Fowlers and Conservation Societies , perhaps we should be the Royal Yachting and Conservation Society and join in with that R S P B publication for I believe quite a very small sum relative to the total outlay . |
| 21 | Leslie and I very much enjoyed the situation , though I felt just a little guilty at flaunting a privilege denied to my friends . |