Example sentences of "[coord] [subord] i [vb base] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If ever I succeed ’ he writes ‘ in bringing our native kings back to life in my songs , and Arthur who waged wars even under the earth , or if I tell of the splendid heroes of the table rendered invincible by their bond of comradeship and , oh if inspiration would but come to me , if I smash the Saxon phalanxes beneath the impact of the British . ’ |
| 2 | I know exactly who I am and where I stand in the world . |
| 3 | ‘ They 've been bringing their dogs to do their business in my front garden , and if I go to the council , d' you know what they 'll say ? |
| 4 | Nothing gives me more pleasure now and if I go to the to the libraries and a young lad I say a young man like you will come to me and say , Hello Nurse , How are you ? |
| 5 | And if I fall into the pulse at the start of a piece of music it is a physical joy . |
| 6 | And so , however unwillingly , and before I return to the dark-haired girl in the coffee bar , I feel obliged to describe now an almost incredible tale about my former friend Robert . |
| 7 | And so , however unwillingly , and before I return to the dark-haired girl in the coffee bar , I feel obliged to describe now an almost incredible tale about my former friend Robert . ’ |
| 8 | Already this freedom has benefited him , and when I know of the good I have done him , I feel that freedom is the only way to greater purity … |
| 9 | And when I refer to the erm primary road network defined in the T P P . |
| 10 | ‘ I have to walk to the bus stop , and when I wait for the bus there 's some of them slag me off and they push you about . |
| 11 | Well I asked the girl and the she , we sort of sidetracked and when I come off the phone I realized that she had n't said . |
| 12 | and she goes why , I goes well every time I got , when I went out the other night and when I come in the other night there was Helena with her arms round Andrew , so it 's not that I , I 'm worried about it but I just think it 's a bit tarty of her cos she 's fancies the pants off Pete and as soon as my back 's turned and Pete is n't there she 's all over Andrew . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've always been very aware that I needed to give something back after this experience and when I read about the appeal for people prepared to give homes to the Bosnians , I decided it was time I stepped in . ’ |
| 14 | As Fielding led me back to our table I made a powerfully worded verbal pass at a salacious waitress , who appeared to be all for it but then came down with some deep sorrow in the kitchen , and when I burst through the double-doors to console her two men in sweat-grey T-shirts assured me there was nothing I could do for the poor child . |
| 15 | ‘ And when I think of the Third-World mothers who do n't even have a roof , and who still manage to love and care for their children , it 's very humbling . |
| 16 | Cos that really got up , up my back when the , I mean tho ai n't a ba , bad bunch of old boys but I normally go down but they they clear and once we 've done our work before dinner break they all clear off and I go down to the and then I sort of walk back more or less behind them you know , to the break like and as I go past the club , I go and wash my hands , they go straight in , I go and wash my hands and I walk past the and er we should go to dinner at quarter to twelve and I go past , it 's one minute past quarter to twelve so cos when we go in there you see quarter past twelve due to go back I always give them two or three minutes and I say that 's it , that 's , ah we was late coming in , I said no you were n't ! |
| 17 | The phone is ringing as I fumble with the key , my bladder is bursting and as I fall into the room I 'm undecided which call to answer first . |
| 18 | ‘ … and as I speed through the dark night to the abyss of oblivion , I can only say thanks , thanks for the memory … ’ |
| 19 | And as I arrive at the university , Martin Stephenson is well into a meandering anecdote about Hoovers , the capacity audience hanging on every word as he does what he does best . |
| 20 | Mark : I ca n't say that to the same extent , but where I live at the moment I know a lot of people within five minutes ' walk and there are ten or fifteen gay people I know who live locally ; there are people I can visit without any great effort whatsoever , whom I 'm likely to meet in the shops . |
| 21 | But if I run through the addresses I think it 'll make sense because everybody will recognize where they are . |
| 22 | I jump for joy … but until I hear from the Foreign Office or from Martin , I wo n't believe it . |
| 23 | But because I work during the week , Saturday is the only time I have , apart from my lunch hour . |
| 24 | I too have Windows 3 running in Real mode , not because I particularly like Windows , nor for multitasking ( which I obviously ca n't do ) , but because I work in the computer industry and need to be able to use Windows at clients ' sites and set up applications for them . |
| 25 | But before I start with the heavy stuff , I 'd like to tell you my own theory about grown-ups and their DOs and DON'Ts and why a lot of them are not very good at dealing with children . |
| 26 | Sorry for whinging , but when I get onto the computer and it says ‘ 8 new messages ’ I think Oh goody ! |
| 27 | But when I get to the other side I ca n't get onto the platform cos of this other gate . |
| 28 | I hit the ball great on the range but when I get on the course it all goes wrong . |
| 29 | ‘ But when I get in the weight room at Chelsea , the other lads put me to shame . |
| 30 | But when I go to the shops and I spend seventy pound for a week . |