Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To come somewhere like this would have been better , somewhere where I had to be in at a certain time , where I could n't have certain people come in . |
| 2 | In the end I decided it did n't matter much where I went as long as it was up . |
| 3 | Only after 1 February can I go more or less where I please and then there is a need to work quite quickly since the ferreting season ends in April when the fast-growing vegetation and the increasing arrival of litters of young rabbits make it impractical to continue . |
| 4 | And a call came over the radio that there was a problem with one of the pumps downstairs , so seeing I had nothing better to do at that time I went downstairs to give them a hand . |
| 5 | ‘ Coming out of the office place opposite where I work . |
| 6 | The afterdeck — of course those boats were n't so big as they are now — all where I laid , it was all over the deck . |
| 7 | I have to get a bus at eight o'clock so I have to leave the house at twenty to eight . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's taken me 10 years to grow them this long so I do n't like hiding them completely under a hat . ’ |
| 9 | It looked a scrappy goal , but slightly better once I had seen what really happened on the telly . |
| 10 | So although I heard the emptiness intellectually , I did n't feel it . |
| 11 | They say , ‘ Thank you for playing the hymn , you did n't mention my name so although I know you were n't playing it just for me , I felt as if you were ’ . |
| 12 | So although I had expected a life of some leisure , I found myself lucky to be apprenticed to a carpenter in Kendal . |
| 13 | So although I sat tight as the communicants went forward I was not too conspicuously a Protestant . |
| 14 | So although I did n't like him touching me the way he had , I decided not to tell anybody . |
| 15 | I was the only sane one , so although I hated to ask , I took the plunge . |
| 16 | Because it was no use to the farmer , there was no water to be seen there , and I thought I could do it with my own garden tools , and so once I 'd removed all the rough brambles and so on and discovered the periphery of the old pond |
| 17 | So once I had passed through the obligatory outskirts of post-war , multi-storey housing estates and entered a labyrinth of blackened buildings in canyon-like streets with traffic jammed solid , I knew I had to be somewhere near the town centre . |
| 18 | I would also like to back up Susan Cooper 's letter in the November issue of Tennis World entitled Steffi OK because when I was at Brighton , Steffi actually stopped and posed in the street to have her picture taken with me , and also Steffi signed every autograph everyday without fail , outside and inside so I think this proves that Steffi is the best at recognising her fans , no matter what it takes . |
| 19 | ‘ I know Feisal better than I know Gamal . |
| 20 | I would n't say I enjoyed it , but it went much better than I expected and my audience were very appreciative . |
| 21 | The names worked even better than I expected . |
| 22 | But a bit better than I expected . |
| 23 | ‘ Actually , you 've done far better than I expected . |
| 24 | ‘ Better than I expected . |
| 25 | ‘ That went better than I expected , ’ said Damian as the limousine swept back to Auckland . |
| 26 | ‘ Better than I 've ever done ! ’ |
| 27 | I 'm getting scripts now , I 'm doing better than I 've ever done in my life , Kerr says I 'm as funny in Eh ? as Buster Keaton . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I 've wanted to do much better than I 've done . |
| 29 | It went better than I hoped , probably because everyone is anxious about giving the right impression , with the May elections coming up . ’ |
| 30 | Better than I had on my twenty-first . ’ |