Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] i [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was worth doing , or so I thought at the time . |
| 2 | As I say , I could have destroyed you , or so I thought at the time , but you 've turned out to be a lot tougher than I had imagined … not vulnerable or confused at all . |
| 3 | She was a real beauty , or so I thought at the time . |
| 4 | Because they 're geared to Marks and Spencers , now there 's the advert for them they work with , with mass production , that 's where it goes wrong because we 've lost our individuality and so I go to the Italians in order to get the sort of yarns they offer me , now they 're the sort of yarns they offer me . |
| 5 | And so I wake in the night panic stricken over a lack of fuel . |
| 6 | An evening thunderstorm suggested that the situation would not be CAVOK , and so I struggled with the telephone . |
| 7 | When I first went to work , I went and joined the union , there was n't one in the factory I was working in and so I went to the nearest er trade union office and joined . |
| 8 | And so I waited for the darkness of the Tongan night to lift , my fingers tightly crossed . |
| 9 | And so I ran to the forge to fetch him . |
| 10 | Oh I know , he said erm , let me see , oh he says , er like that , if it was a narrow road er you er pretty well covered the road and I looked , I said , covered the road , I said I know I 'm big , but not that big a and of course everybody , the magistrates on the bench and everybody laughed , you see and there were newspaper reporters sitting down there writing all this down , you see and so I said to the sergeant , I said , would you be kind enough to send me a newspaper to er tonight and he to I am not sure if I can oh yes I think I did . |
| 11 | ‘ And so I broke into the palace , with a sponge and a rusty spanner . |
| 12 | So deeper and deeper I went into the world of science , wanting all the time to express myself in a totally different field . |
| 13 | Indication can be quivertip or butt indicator and generally I wait for the reel to revolve slowly so I know it is not a line bite . |
| 14 | At last there it was , and somehow I got through the rest without further mishap . |
| 15 | When I loaded in the game I hit fire , and once I got to the end of the screen I went to enter a hole that is there but I could n't . |
| 16 | I 'll tell you , if ever I get into the Owsla , I 'll treat outskirters with a bit of decency . " |
| 17 | Yes , I mean this is the point I 'll be developing later , later in , in , in the lectures , I 'm currently spending a lot of time kind of researching and thinking about this , but i i it 's ultimately the question of genes affect behaviour and more and more I come to the to the view that they probably do so erm through what we call our emotions , that our genes kind of erm guide us to do so and things through various subjective feelings like when we 're hungry , we , we know we 're hungry and it 's a subjective feeling of hunger . |
| 18 | Slowly and carefully I swam round the dark walls of the castle . |
| 19 | They should have got the solicitors in and said ‘ look you 've no rights to have been here , you walked on this common land without any permission at all , you built these places without you 've got cars park and everything ’ , and now I listen to the story where the council says they 're going to run it etc. etc and etc , well what the people want , they want it cleared up , they want it back to where it was , we do n't want somebody running another business out there , this is the idea of getting him off . |
| 20 | I want to make a limited point at this juncture , I reserve the right to come back later on , and it 's become three points as a result of the discussion we 've already had , my view on the contribution of the of the greenbelt to the York issue is n't just the setting of the city , it 's the character of the city , and that would include the central city and the historic city , and the need to limit the physical expansion and size of the urban area because of the implications inside the historic city , and that would certainly apply to other cities with greenbelts that I 'm familiar with like York , like er Oxford , which the character suffers from expansion , possibly excessive , Norwich , that considered a greenbelt , and London , if you like that did n't get its greenbelt until we had the character rather drastically altered , so I think it is n't just the setting and how you see the city from the ring road , it 's actually what happens inside the core , the second point I want to make is really for clarification perhaps , er and it relates to the question of allocations between the built up area and the inner edge of the greenbelt , as I understand it all those allocations are already er included in the Ryedale local plan , and are already therefore included in the commitments that we looked at in Ryedale , I do n't think there is a further reserve of spare opportunities that might be used either before or after two thousand and six , that 's certainly my understanding and if anybody was was taking a different view I think that should be clear , and now I come to the one point that I was actually going to raise , erm I think it 's important that in this discussion of the relations between York city and Greater York , that we get a , early on , a clear view of what the requirements are in York , not just its capacity which we 've discussed so far , and a figure of three thousand three hundred seems to be a fairly common currency , but its requirements , and I want to address a particular question to the County Council , which is in my proof , so they 've had as it were four weeks notice of it . |
| 21 | And er , although I think we encourage managers to be generous in terms of again part-time working and time off , I think our corporation , and now I go to the United States , has probably taken a more enlightened attitude than we have so far . |
| 22 | My teacher , Peter Brown , made the mistake of praising my swing and now I swing in the kitchen whilst stacking the dishwasher , and just before bedtime in the bedroom whilst Jack 's out brushing his teeth . |
| 23 | In the absence of anyone more nearly related I had been designated next-of-kin , and now I wrote to the Court of Protection who had been dealing with her affairs , asking what my responsibilities would be if she died . |
| 24 | And here I come to the crux of what I want to say . |
| 25 | And here I apologise for the rather poor sound quality , but he refused to shut his parrot and dogs in another room during the interview . |
| 26 | And equally I disagree with the very poor performa poor sorry poor performance given er er in particular to the A nineteen north . |
| 27 | Suddenly I heard the noise of an animal jumping through the window , and immediately I hid at the back of my box . |
| 28 | He just ca n't put it forward , so you have to get a book and do it yourself , and then I ask for the syllabus so I can make sure |
| 29 | ‘ — and then I belonged to the Pasha of Re'durat and played a prominent part in the battle of the Great Nef , which is where I received the slight nick you may have noticed some two-thirds of the way up my blade , ’ Kring was saying from its temporary home in a tussock . |
| 30 | Oh yeah , yes , when I went , when I went to a , when I was in India I went to have a , cos I went , I went , I was in the singles section then , in Colchester , and I went out , and I went , not I went to a licence agent first , and then I went to the headquarters , Signals there , and the bloke I remembered best of all , I think , was oh Cakey , his name was and his initials were Cakey . |