Example sentences of "of [noun sg] i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worst case of heatstroke I 've ever seen ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But of course I knew where she was , and that she was calling at Genoa . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Well I say happy , that 's a term of course I use loosely in that context . |
| 6 | Of course I got nowhere and she found out all she cared to know about me ( though not about my friends ) . |
| 7 | On balance I would definitely have preferred the latter , but of course I got neither ( that 's families again for you ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Of course I came down to earth on my next round . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Of course I worry about that because I 'm a human being , but that can make you paralysed . |
| 15 | But of course I 've not been in the market you , you know . |
| 16 | I would be grateful if at some point Mr you were to deal with er Doctor 's er most recent comments on the Greater Crested Newt , since of course I 've only just had those er more or less on coming into this room , and I have n't had a chance |
| 17 | And of course I 've never been introduced to you properly . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Of course I 've never been able to cook . |
| 19 | Martens says : ‘ Of course I realised immediately the historic importance of the book and the show together . |
| 20 | And of course I carried on , carried on . |
| 21 | So of course I said how much I 'd like to be able to play my guitar like a saxophone , and he said , ‘ Yeah — and vice versa . ’ |
| 22 | It took two days for us to get to Rome where the tournament was being played , and of course I had n't got a bag . |
| 23 | Of course I had n't bargained on technology , because once the hide is cut to size and checked for blemishes it 's actually put on a cutting form and sent through a roller press . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't know , ’ I said , because of course I had n't agreed at all . |
| 25 | Anyway , of course I had n't any . |
| 26 | I and I took to Connor 's Quay as a sailing ship and I and then of course I had n't been much in sailing ships . |
| 27 | Sure , of course I know where the dolmen is . |
| 28 | Of course I know why she says things like that : it 's to make me feel bourgeois , provincial , conventional , inhibited — the complete little woman ! |
| 29 | ‘ Of course I know how . |
| 30 | Of course I dealt also with a large number of other factors , highways , environmental considerations , archaeology . |