Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [pron] [verb] i [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It steals between us in such a way that whether or not he sees me only as the outline Woman , I see him through it only as the crude outline Man . |
| 2 | So I was close by and so they sent me in so the way I , I got dressed up in the minister 's cassock , and I got in revised the books of Genesis , like through and I get genned up to be a minister and I took in a bible and er well anyway I killed five men and they got out alive . |
| 3 | A mate brought me one down from Burton well over sixty years ago — and here you see I still got it . |
| 4 | She said I ca n't promise you , so I thought well I 'm sat six months now , so I phoned this ship thing yesterday on the telly called Just Start , no Start Again whatever it 's called and they gave me , they phoned me yesterday and they gave me a number of Cine Hill , Northampton which is the job advisory centre , adults education and then they phoned me yesterday and they told me who to get in touch with so I 've got an appointment Thursday at erm Northampton with the Social Services Department and they apparently map out all the places where you could go , say , say for instance that St Crispin 's is the mental home I can go there and be with the patients and then I can go to the Marina 's and be taught how to lift and how to bed bath and how to manipulate |
| 5 | Like , Friday night all the boys came up and then they picked me up and we did n't come back . |
| 6 | They wrapped my feet in foam and then they carted me off . |
| 7 | And I feel really guilty , I think oh I better bring her in and then she wakes me up at six o'clock bouncing on the bed ! |
| 8 | And then she phoned me up . |
| 9 | They sold it Christmas Eve day it was gon na go through the twenty third , Christmas , the day before Christmas erm it was gone and they were supposed to fly over to Spain and they were gon na , gone , exchange a contract to sell it and then she phoned me back and she said I 've got some good news for you , we 've decided not to sell , it 's so beautiful up there and it 's called Los |
| 10 | Yeah cos she used to get me t , and then she rang me up one day when I was and said dad erm dad ca n't bring me round there cos the car 's not working , can you come and pick me up ? |
| 11 | And then he asked me out in the end . |
| 12 | and then he asked me then and erm , he did n't know whether to ask me or not , well he knew , he knew more or less I 'd say yes anyway , cos I more , I 'd already said yes , but not to his face , so but he did n't know whether to because Henry fancied me |
| 13 | And then he looked me straight in the face , ‘ One day , soon , Nicky , God 's spirit is going to deal with you . |
| 14 | And then he licked me out while we 're on the phone ! |
| 15 | I paused for a moment , then said , ‘ Kathleen , let me tell you what I think would happen if I did as you say and then you tell me where I 'm going wrong . |
| 16 | You took my youth , my innocence — everything I had ! — and then you flung me aside when you knew I could give you nothing … and you left me nothing ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You say that you want total honesty from me , and then you throw me out when you get it ! |
| 18 | So I rang you and then Lyn said yeah I 'll get her to call you and then you rang me back so it was as though Lyn had give you the message to call me |
| 19 | Alistair said , ‘ And then you want me quickly to buy as many publicly held shares as possible . ’ |
| 20 | Somebody said , well the Harbourmaster 's not coming , I said , right go back to work and that 's the time I , that 's the time when we had the first baby and erm , that 's the first one we lost and anyhow they put me off for a fortnight and erm I went down to , I say go up the Board of Guardians , that was like the D H S S but a little bit lower and I just start to buy this house soon as I said to this bloke , he live in the council house over here this bloke , what was interviewing me |
| 21 | ‘ I have plenty of friends and sometimes they visit me here . |
| 22 | Victoria said , ‘ And why he asked me not to call him uncle in front of you because it made him sound old ! ’ |
| 23 | ‘ The Countess did all she could for me , arranging for me to have the baby away from the Castle , because of gossip in the servants ’ hall , and afterwards she took me back into service . |
| 24 | That did n't go down very well an' then 'e asked me why . |
| 25 | But then you picked me up , and you made me your mission — and in spite of everything that I 'd lost , I gained something that I 'd never had before . |
| 26 | It is with much concern that I find myself unable to comply with a request from you and Mr. Browne , but indeed you pay me too great a compliment in supposing me capable of writing upon any subject that is proposed to me . |