Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] i [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The servicemen were always very helpful in hauling one aboard , but I was not in uniform and I always felt they must be wondering whether or not I had any right to travel . |
2 | I have n't been there for over a , a year or more I think last time I was there |
3 | or how I liked two sugars in my tea , |
4 | If I see anything on the subject it goes into the file , and eventually I have enough material for a book or an article . ’ |
5 | I stood alone on the beach next to the elaborate italics of Oliver ( the others had done capitals , of course ) , and I looked up towards the camera , and Stuart shouted ‘ Cheese ! ’ and Gillian shouted ‘ Gorgonzola ! ’ and Stu shouted ‘ Camembert ! ’ and Gillian shouted ‘ Dolcelatte ! ’ and suddenly I had this crying fit . |
6 | But I always wanted to travel , and so I made several voyages as a ship 's doctor . |
7 | This therefore will be my last Sunday with you and so I take this opportunity to thank you again for all your kindnesses to me and for the way you made me welcome when I arrived 5 years ago ( does n't time fly ! ) . |
8 | I was lucky Nick and she was pretty Ellen , and so I ordered another bottle of the sticky white wine and we let our dreams take wings . |
9 | I also built myself a second house there , and so I had two homes . |
10 | And she did and so I think two days before Christmas Lady said to me , okay I shall go into Peter and choose whatever microwave you want . |
11 | It was a Top 30 of contemporary records , but the new entries were very unlikely , and obviously I favoured certain musicians , like T. Rex . |
12 | I thought it was very interesting indeed all the information , and obviously I think one question is which schools are now going to be called in that were n't here before , and will that lead to a better distribution of collection points across the city ? |
13 | I tried to explain to Irena that I did n't mind , that this was how I felt it should be — the real Central Europe — and anyway I preferred that kind of place to ordered museums and shining monuments . |
14 | I think we might as well get in a few things and anyway I want some envelope re-use labels . |
15 | Three weeks only and already I know that Mrs Scamp . |
16 | And once I spent three weeks on Thursday Island . |
17 | But there was still no sign of the elusive owl , and now I had another quest , too . |
18 | It was the matchman , Tom Boulton , who made me see sense and now I prefer adapted match tackle and tactics . |
19 | and now I know another song about Donald Duck Donald Duck went up the hill stuck in the miney mo , down in the rain and was for , Donald Duck |
20 | ‘ I am so certain of my place here that I would have resigned anyway , and now I have good reason three times over … my nerve had already failed twice , and could n't do so again … . ’ |
21 | And now I have some news for you . |
22 | We have a short paper which I ask people coming for a job to read through , and then I ask some questions to see what sort of person they are . |
23 | And then I saw another Tedesco . |
24 | I looked at lots , and then I saw this fairytale cottage , like something out of Alice In Wonderland . |
25 | Yeah they go to mush and then I put more taters into it later on , about twenty minutes before I need it , but it thickens it so they 'll eat it . |
26 | And I 'll do mine so I had three sixty and I split it as a ten times thirty six and then I had two times five for that ten okay ca n't go any further there . |
27 | They analysed it and found that it was mud , a piece of clay , y'know , but them not being all-forgiving , they suspected that I was using drugs , y'know , so they kicked me out of home and I went to live with my grandmother and then I had more freedom there to do as I pleased and hence started going to pop festivals and things and enjoying them and getting off on them and mixing with that whole subculture if you like . |
28 | and then I had another pint of Yorkshire , but the draught one |
29 | I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys |
30 | we did , some had gone out on the plates and then I had three boxes left and I was going round giving them out . |