Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that 'd go down bett or I mean even like when we did the pantomimes , you remember Cinderella we did ? |
| 2 | Although he had defied her before , it had only been in words but now the thought that he had the choice of putting those words into action and so set a new pattern , and in doing so break one of the threads that tied him to her , caused his whole body to tremble and his voice to quiver as he said , ‘ Either you give me permission freely to go with Mick tomorrow or I go down now and put it to Martin . ’ |
| 3 | We 've got to set up a proper complaints procedure , so that people know how to complain about Social Services , although I doubt very much whether anybody would ever want to complain about Oxfordshire 's Social Services , and so on . |
| 4 | I finished equal fifth and , although I got as far as the final qualifying round for the Open and won through two rounds of the Amateur Championship , that was to be my best result for the year . |
| 5 | I 'm taking steps to make sure that I last as long as possible . |
| 6 | His way of praising me was to say that I wrote as naturally as a hen laying eggs , or to remark , after he had destroyed a work with his criticisms , ‘ Everything I have not marked seems to me either good or excellent . |
| 7 | not that I perceived any longer if the had n't gone . |
| 8 | I wanted to tell him calmly that I knew perfectly well that it was absurd and quite understood the point of his questions . |
| 9 | He remarked that I looked neither well nor happy . |
| 10 | I suspect , then , that I paused rather abruptly and looked a little awkward . |
| 11 | I was so physically tired that I slept as soundly as the corpses outside the window but , unlike them , awoke refreshed and went downstairs to a good breakfast . |
| 12 | Ted might decide he does n't like me any more , that I laugh too loudly or drink too much of his beer , and then we 'd have to get a tent . |
| 13 | It turns out that fragments of each of my three files are dotted around , interleaved with each other and with fragments of old , dead files that I erased long ago and had forgotten . |
| 14 | There was one , there was one last comment that I missed out there that it was the erm the permission to proceed with the product recommendations , you were wanting to proceed with recommendations but you had n't got the commitment off Steven in the first place so you were suggestion recommendations and what ! |
| 15 | I was wanted so I ran away again and came down to London . |
| 16 | The house was sold off and I ended up inheriting 12,000 dollars , so I went straight out and bought an AG 440 Ampex professional four track machine and took it up to my father 's coffee plant , and every night when he left I would drive up and work on Stevie 's and my songs . |
| 17 | I told myself he might have meant us to meet at the Festival , so I went along there and searched for him in the crowd . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Tommy Webber who lives next door works in the bar at The Packet so I went along there and sat in the bar until closing time then Tommy gave me a lift home on the back of his bike . ’ |
| 19 | There 's an underground thing — you know , steps going down to a station , so I go down there and wander around for a bit . |
| 20 | ‘ So I got back home and took five songs a day and learned them . |
| 21 | We tend to play at the point of the evening when the temperature drops , so I tune up just before Bryan goes on and then after three or four songs they 're all sharp , because the temperature has dropped . |
| 22 | And I get on less than two people |
| 23 | And I go out there because I want to hear ‘ God Save the Queen . ’ |
| 24 | In my third year at Oxford , however , I noticed that I seemed to be getting clumsier , and I fell over once or twice for no apparent reason . |
| 25 | Well actually people in my area do have a concern about this , also though I was brought up in my teens at least within a rural area and I know full well that to hold certain views even those of the majority within rural areas , are not necessarily easily expressed and I have today been told of yet another example of this being the case . |
| 26 | And I know perfectly well that there 's no way that er I could get my wife to move out of the town , she loves it . |
| 27 | I mean ah I know I know but then he 's pretty tied up and I know very well but even trying to get lunch with is difficult but there may be there may be I mean I know quite well but would want . |
| 28 | ‘ And I realised even then that , if I neglected it , it would die . |
| 29 | He paused , then with what Robbie considered to be an unutterably complacent smile , ‘ And I doubt very much whether Petula would approve of your presence either . ’ |
| 30 | And I walked as normally as I could into the playground , my private pain overcome for fear of discovery . |