Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun] i [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two or three times I fell down when I was wearing it , that was outside in the market place . |
| 2 | It must have been about the fourth or fifth time I went round to see him . |
| 3 | Did you think mm , no , I had one or two names I left off , I was too busy doing something else , I was away , then you ca n't sign it can you ? |
| 4 | I was just that some nights I waken up and you know you can actually hear your heart . |
| 5 | I 've been retired from playing for five years , although this season I messed about a bit just to keep in touch with what was going on , and I really do think that someone else should have the honour of captaining the team . |
| 6 | Mysteriously , a nurse later said that one night I got out of bed and walked to the toilet , and yet the next day I could n't move . |
| 7 | She could n't understand why I needed to lodge in London at all , but insisted that any accommodation I settled on had to be approved by the university authorities . |
| 8 | ‘ They phoned me at home on a Friday evening and that night I went out to celebrate , ’ she said . |
| 9 | But most of my time I spent in the many and varied mosques , and each day I went back to Hagia Sophia , sometimes remaining for hours . |
| 10 | I own a Commodore 64 and this Monday I went down to the shop and bought Renegade III . |
| 11 | ‘ I wrote a letter two days ago suggesting a meeting and this morning I got back a curt note suggesting a time . |
| 12 | But erm , now I get up at eight o'clock every morning , and this morning I slept in till ten , but that 's cos I was up till four , working on Thursday night . |
| 13 | One thing I did appreciate in almost all the French and German restaurants I ate in , was the happy absence of Muzak . |
| 14 | I heard a grunt , a hum of air , a bloodstunning crack , then with oddly exact and flowing movements I sat up saying " Money " , took my wallet from its holster , fanned five twenties at the sweating black face , wedged shut the door , made the triple-ring sign , and drove sedately out of Rosalind Court . |
| 15 | It was about a hundred and eighty miles I clocked up . |
| 16 | " I want you , Eddie , that 's the one and only thing I came about . |
| 17 | It was the first and only time I walked over to the pavillon , knocked on the door and entered alone . |
| 18 | I had years in Latin America , the Far East , all over the place , and any time I came back to London , well , there was too much to do to have much time for somewhere like ffeatherstonehaugh 's , and anyway I was married by then and my wife would n't have approved . |
| 19 | My combat jacket , knife , bags , catapult and other equipment I took down to the kitchen with me . |
| 20 | After five lorries and two vans I gave up . |
| 21 | But each time I turned back . |
| 22 | ‘ But that night I moved in , you were ’ |
| 23 | But that evening I settled down at home to watch a superb and delightful documentary on the giant otters of South America . |
| 24 | But this week I went along to ‘ the other Headingley ’ where he plies his trade week-in , week-out to talk to him about his hopes and ambitions and how he saw the season panning out for his big-spending club . |
| 25 | ‘ But this time I go up under my own steam . ’ |
| 26 | I used to sleep in the same bed as my mother and father because of the shortage of space , but one morning I woke up in another room and I looked out and saw the undertaker standing at the top of the stairs . |
| 27 | Oh this er when I said er I was just looking through again because last night I sat up late writing these |
| 28 | When one day I tidied up and cleared out this cupboard , I realised that I had ignored everything in it for over a year . |