Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [subord] i [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | Okay now while you 're explaining is it all right if I just use your toilet ? |
2 | Eventually I was able to convince my senior officers that anthropology was one of the social sciences , perhaps only because I somewhat sardonically returned a memo which asked ‘ why , if anthropology is not approved , have I just been allowed to read the subject on a Bramshill Scholarship , on full pay and allowances ? ’ |
3 | I start to hear everything much better than I normally do . |
4 | Mother was a grand player , of course … much better than I ever was … but she thought I might do better if someone else taught me , and she was such a busy person with all those old people to care for and Daddy ailing like he was . |
5 | I do n't mind , I do n't mind so long as I just get out a bit on , into town and |
6 | ‘ I 'm told this war could be all over before I even get a shot at them . ’ |
7 | ‘ In so far as I ever had snake hips , they have gone since I came here . ’ |
8 | You 're going to leave me soon , and I 'll regret it forever more if I never kiss you properly . |
9 | ‘ The reading of it has been a good preparation for Lent as far as I am concerned : for it shows me ( through the heroine ) the special sin of abuse of intellect to which all my profession are liable , more clearly than I ever saw before . |
10 | As a result of that I 'm learning more now than I ever have , even though I have less time in which to do so . ’ |
11 | So I used to support Goldsmith 's views , perhaps rather more strongly than I actually should of done . |
12 | and then like like even if I still have to go cos . |
13 | To act more charitably than I customarily do . |
14 | I do n't know why but I see that more clearly now than I ever did at the time . |
15 | All messed up again after I just cleaned you up ! |
16 | ‘ That I 'm a two-headed yellow-bellied adulteress serving the clients poisoned drinks — as slowly as I possibly can , ’ Charity guessed with good humour . |
17 | Meanwhile I noticed my friends paddling by smiling , laughing and waving at me as they obviously did not realise why I was screaming as loud as I possibly could . |
18 | Like I say , she 's sleeping well now , and she 's often up before I even wake up . |
19 | And to be more explicit and to show you how tall I stand by the giant , I will put down a simile of human life as far as I now perceive it ; that is , to the point to which I say we both have arrived at . |
20 | And I would like to say thank you to the people who sit on the budget review sub- committee , a committee which actually I do n't attend as often as I probably ought to , particularly to the labour spokesperson , for the way he 's guided the committee , both from within the chair and at other times , on it 's work this year , to be able to propose a budget which erm , so well fulfils the aims that many of us had when we were elected in May , which were of course , to maintain services , er , to squeeze efficiency out of the sy into the system and squeeze any waste out , and to get our officers working towards zero base budgets . |
21 | Watson and Thacker shot down — informed that all was clear but continued weaving — just as well as I then saw a red spinner in my mirror . |
22 | He said : ‘ I felt unfortunate to lose that tournament but it told me I was good enough to win a major and I 've come here hitting the ball as well as I ever have . ’ |
23 | ‘ You know as well as I that both Benedict and Araminta have every moral right to enjoy whatever she had , while I have none at all . ’ |
24 | It 's not a role that I welcome , although I try hard as a responsible chairman of the group to do the job as well as I possibly can . |
25 | I could walk as fast as I ever did but I tended to roll my shoulders and turn my three-toed foot in as I did so . |
26 | I hope she ai n't far cos I really want to change my trousers and take off my mac . |
27 | One of the questions erm , there was a one of the categories was quiz shows so I thought well I , I do n't , I wo n't do very well here cos I just do n't watch enough and one of the questions was , who was the helper on erm My , on Take Your Pick ? |
28 | Terrie put the helm hard over while I alternately concentrated on the reef , closing rapidly on both sides , and took bearings on the tree to ensure that we made whatever course corrections were necessary to counteract the current that runs northward up this coastline at up to three knots . |
29 | If I am in a studio and initially feel slightly lukewarm towards a particular piece I find it does not last very long because I soon get caught up with the work of a strong artist . |