Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] [pron] [verb] i [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And whether they tend to get older and move on , or like you say I totally agree , Have they took off somewhere else ? |
| 2 | It 's going to be very strange , but I love all that because it gives me so much more of a challenge . |
| 3 | But greater than they is a sort of compulsion which comes on me , so that when I invent I scarcely know what I am inventing . |
| 4 | I do n't know why ’ Constanza told me that when she told me so little else . |
| 5 | You joked that as you kissed me deeply you could taste the tang of my lunchtime Cumberland sausage . |
| 6 | He said cos I used to keep the house tidy he said I 've been the in the army June an he said I can I can run a household he said but we and then working the shifts I do he said and go up the horses and that he said I just do n't get time to do it ! |
| 7 | ‘ It was not Mrs Greville 's word , ’ said Sally-Anne , goaded unwisely into further indiscretion , still trying to break free , ‘ it was your handwriting — the same that told me that I was the light of your life and that you loved me dearly . ’ |
| 8 | And if they throw me out … ’ he trailed off with a shrug . |
| 9 | They 're going to be celebrating with a match against the Kew Occasionals fifteen , who include two Irish internationals and six former blues , and afterwards there 'll be a firework display , and if they phone me up I 'll come along , as long as it 's free of charge . |
| 10 | I do n't Stephen and if I did I definitely would lend it to you . |
| 11 | I pick up the scissors because I 'm alone in the shop and if he touches me again he 'll leave without something he came in with , when the bell goes on the door and this other boy in a city suit comes in , boring yuppie sort . |
| 12 | damp and If you get me back to mum 's for about three o'clock time at the latest to take her to Osborne House . |
| 13 | You see , if you like me then you 'll think that I 'm some sort of brain surgeon , and if you hate me then you 'll think I 'm shit … the truth is in the middle . |
| 14 | ‘ And if you push me down again , ’ she warned quietly , ‘ you might very well find that you have a tiger by the tail . |
| 15 | And if you push me much harder , I 'll wash my hands of the whole thing and tell the Committee I ca n't cope , and make it clear I want you out — out , do you understand ? |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm going to bed , and if you want me out of here in the morning you 're going to have to throw me out , bodily , just as I am . |
| 17 | And if you phoned me early in the year it must have been just after we got the V W. |
| 18 | ‘ That 's the way I 've always done it , and until they carry me out here , that 's the way it stays . ’ |
| 19 | Yeah and I ca n't I ca n't get myself pushed cos if they push me too hard I usually ache . |
| 20 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 21 | ‘ Ah , but I need to know for sure , you see , because I have some doubts , and before you ask me why I should be so concerned I will assure you that this time it is partly for my own self-esteem that I would like to know . ’ |
| 22 | Men who could use these things comfortably would have to be three metres tall , and when they came I really did n't want to be there . |
| 23 | We went out for a meal , and when he took me home he wanted to come in . |
| 24 | Just just to see cos as I say I just ca n't believe it . |
| 25 | Ward had his camera with him , and though he led me round at a breathless pace , talking all the time about the terrible religious cult of the Aztecs , he also took quite a few pictures , usually with myself or some other human in the foreground to give an indication of the scale of the place . |
| 26 | I suppose I 'm feeling slightly sceptical about the situation , but if you ask me as blankly as that of course my immediate reaction , my old reaction would be ‘ but of course I feel confident about the future of British music ’ , you know , in my more sceptical mood now I still would say ‘ yes ’ , but not quite so enthusiastically as before . |
| 27 | But if you asked me how a motor car worked you would think me somewhat pompous if I answered in terms of Newton 's laws and the laws of thermodynamics , and downright obscurantist if I answered in terms of fundamental particles . |
| 28 | But if anyone rejects me publicly , I will reject him before my Father in heaven ’ ( Matt. |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm sorry , but unless you tell me why you want to know , I ca n't help you . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't know what sort of a game you 're playing here but unless you tell me exactly why you 've had me drive all the way down to this God-forsaken place I 'm going straight back through that door ! ’ |