Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [subord] i [vb base] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My weak spots are my right knee and lower back , but I wo n't let on much because I like to make out I am indestructible . ’ |
| 2 | Well Dorothy got er , some to knit something for Bryony and she actually got too much so if I do run out if I have n't enough to finish this er er vest , T-shirt summer top , whatever it 's called she 'll have some . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've wanted to do much better than I 've done . |
| 4 | I put this down only because I have heard her daughter 's friends call her ‘ mannish ’ , and her own generation ‘ monstrous ’ . |
| 5 | So long as I 've got somebody now there 's nobody along here . |
| 6 | I nearly brought you down and treat , and I thought I 'd better not until I 've asked your mum . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd hate to lose you , so soon after I 've found you . ’ |
| 8 | It 's been so ever since I 've known her — she was the eldest , and felt herself a mother to the pair of them . |
| 9 | I can get along OK if I 've got someone to lean on . ’ |
| 10 | When she entered the room , she directed an unfriendly look at Harold — so far as I remember making no sound — and , seeing where I was sitting , directed a glance at me that , for anyone of lesser resolution , would undoubtedly have turned me into stone . |
| 11 | Only , I think , in so far as I 've seen so many pictures over the years that I must have picked up some knowledge and a sort of an overview of what there is in English art , so that I can make better comparisons . |
| 12 | so now if I 've got to knock the surveyor 's heads together that 's |
| 13 | I find I can do it much easier if I 've got one eye on the television . |
| 14 | I was and it 's never gone away even though I 've put my weight back on . |
| 15 | yes , but its not there if I 've had it all out in it ? , you took up to bed with him that 's why you ca n't |
| 16 | I understand the concerns that people will have about the forthcoming changes , not least because I have seen similar exercises in IBM . |
| 17 | They were n't badly off because I do believe they ran a car and she would wear a lovely fox fur when she was out and about in the dale . |
| 18 | Possibly not because I 've grown to dislike the game . |
| 19 | Displaying his sense of humour , McKenzie quipped : ‘ I think I 've had my arms around Phil more often than I 've had them around my fiancee ’ . |
| 20 | So write that one and then later on when I 've gone if you can make up some sentences with stationary and stationery . |
| 21 | She says it 's hard work having to think of other ways of getting around — having always to take into consideration the bus timetables — I ca n't arrange to meet friends unless there 's a bus at that time and coming home — leaving the pubs — I have to drink up quickly if I want to catch the last bus home . |
| 22 | I am thinking of selling up even before I have started . |
| 23 | I said to the builder I 've got more up there than I 've got downstairs ! |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't get mine up there until I 've achieved something , ’ says the new boy . |
| 25 | ‘ She looks terrible now , but I 'm going to put packing in the cheeks to fill them up again after I 've dried her out . |
| 26 | And all I what my my parting statement to most people , although I 'll say it right now because I 've started it , erm is that if you 're prepared to listen to the advice given by the people who 've been doing er selling advertising in these environments |
| 27 | ‘ For as long as I 've had memories and before that too . |
| 28 | You 've been plaguing the life out of me and everybody else for as long as I 've worked here . |
| 29 | Your father has extended to me the hospitality of his house for as long as I care to take it , or until he grows sick of the sight of me . |
| 30 | Now for those of us that have been slightly biased by the dubiously titled ‘ Warehouse Raves ’ compilations that Rumour have been responsible for in the past , well we can not sit up and take note , because here comes their most exciting release for as long as I care to remember ( sorry Rumour ! ) . |