Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] i [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are a young gentleman and I am sorry to say , not better than I wish you to be . |
| 2 | I can manage better if I have someone with me , but this is n't always possible . |
| 3 | ‘ Only if I wore it on my head . ’ |
| 4 | Because I 'm going to help her with her paper round tomorrow so she can get it done early — the people do n't come before 7 and we 've got to be at the bus terminus by 8.30 ; because that 's when we 've arranged to meet — ; meet our friends of course and so if I help her with her round she can get it done in time . |
| 5 | So if I put something like this erm okay ? |
| 6 | It was just , I wondered if , so if I get something along this line , I mean I can cope with something like this . |
| 7 | ‘ So if I invited you to my house you would not be upset by the simple food I would serve ? ’ |
| 8 | Right so if I give you minus |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps it is time we discussed the rules that will govern the unfortunate time we spend together until I return you to Milano tomorrow . ’ |
| 10 | Then I nearly fell over when Hywel walked in because I met him on the mountain and he gave me the eye . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I suggest we sit down while I explain them to you briefly . ’ |
| 12 | I climbed it long before I knew anything of eponymous lists , and did so again recently . |
| 13 | Much as I regard them as a social nuisance on a par with the Orange Walk and invented by the devil to prevent churchgoers getting to church on time , I can not claim that marathons have ( yet ) been proved to kill enough people to justify banning them . |
| 14 | During the lead-up to my emergence as a fully-fledged lesbian , I suffered unspeakably as I steered myself through a minefield of heavily internalized Catholic dogma . |
| 15 | I do n't have fancy feelings about where money comes from , so long as I earn it in ways which fit in with my flexible principles . |
| 16 | I was young and easily impressed , so when I saw her in the West Indies , beautiful and elegantly dressed , I thought I loved her . |
| 17 | So when I approached them with my intricate scheme for escaping the greedy jaws of Mr Kinnock and his pals via the strategic disappearance of Punch , they saw the beauty of it straightaway . |
| 18 | Dad said to me , ‘ Just imagine if you had packed it in when I told you to ! |
| 19 | Just cos I beat him in a race . |
| 20 | ‘ You 're not going to fire Eleanor , and especially not if I ask you to . ’ |
| 21 | And not on me clothes either , not if I know anything about it . |
| 22 | ‘ Not if I beat them to a pulp it wo n't . |
| 23 | ‘ Not if I knows aught about it , she ai n't ! ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Then it would obviously be best if I leave you on your own until you 're in a more reasonable mood , ’ he said , walking towards the door . |
| 25 | And not until I have someone from the American embassy present . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Not unless I do it in the next three months , ’ she told him . |
| 27 | This is not because I take them for granted — On the contrary I marvel every year at the miracle of that never-empty basket in The Undercroft and the crowds round the stalls . |
| 28 | I stuck to lures , not because I have anything against bait fishing , but because I was interested to see if they 'd score . |
| 29 | THIS IS NOT because I climbed them as a child . |
| 30 | The parent attitude would be ‘ do it thus because I tell you to ’ , again crossing the stimulus/response lines . |