Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [adv] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was with the idea of learning to judge distances that I set out the next morning . |
| 2 | so we set off going and I thought well the first ones were , did n't ask for a proof of doing it , just asked to do it |
| 3 | I am afraid I could only manage part of the meal and I cut out the second and third courses completely , and only had gravy and vegetables for the third , but most people at my table went right through the menu ! |
| 4 | Yes , he said , I should go , and he would n't come , cos he ai n't got no answer to it you see , anyway I went and I started back the next morning , he called me back . |
| 5 | I 've seen the video tape of Tom and I coming down the 18th . |
| 6 | I know how to make it do all kinds of things — including a few that are not in the manufacturer 's manual — but I have not the first idea as to how it actually works . |
| 7 | But I plan over the next year to completely renew my rig ; there are just too many hip new things . |
| 8 | Erm well actually what I wanted was a repeat of my prescription , but I wondered why the last time I had one I got sixty instead of a hundred that I got before ? |
| 9 | That 's why I thought , when I come back the next time and you 're upset I said oh no way do I want to upset a woman like that . |
| 10 | When I woke up the next morning my incontinence sheet had gone |
| 11 | We arrived quite late on our first night and , when I went downstairs the next morning the waitress showed us to our table and said : ‘ Good morning , I think you were arriving at eleven o'clock last night . ’ |
| 12 | I sang down the Bottom Club , so when I went down the next week the manager said I 've just been waiting for you , I 've been waiting for you to come in he said so he said , look the group ca n't come he said , will you sing ? |
| 13 | Oh I , when I , when I went there the next morning I had to tell all in front of the class and tell all the kids . |
| 14 | ‘ But when I went back the next day , I was told the two shops were no longer connected . |
| 15 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 16 | As I strolled down the next fairway and skirted a mass of heather which cut into the fairway on the angle of the dogleg , I wondered how my boss , Jack Mason , would fare in the tournament . |
| 17 | I could n't see anything from road level because of the hedgerow but as I started up the second switch of the hill , I noticed an Escort estate car parked on the left opposite the police barrier . |
| 18 | I incurred a second funeral director 's bill the same week as I paid off the first . |