Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right I 'll be for the rest of the tutorial really , erm find yourselves something to do , I just really want to follow up er the little amount of time that I spent with second years er looking at their action plans . |
| 2 | they 're improvements that I started with ninth year . |
| 3 | so it was n't the fact I was trying to lose too much speed , it was that I changed into first and did n't have |
| 4 | ‘ I think you 're a very brave girl , ’ he said ‘ — braver even than I thought at first . |
| 5 | I think maybe I have more ill effects than I imagined from last night … ’ |
| 6 | Just to say that the trip worked out slightly cheaper than I anticipated at first and have pleasure in returning a little bit from your cheque . |
| 7 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , it has taken me longer than I had at first anticipated to work my way through the manuscript you . |
| 8 | ‘ Was n't he washing himself when Tom and I passed by last night just after eight o'clock ? |
| 9 | Large red and white boats packed the harbour , and I thought at first that they must be private yachts . |
| 10 | ‘ Once I cut the neckline wrong on three hundred dresses and I thought at first I 'd just keep quiet and fill the gap with lace . |
| 11 | And I thought at first that it was good , because my mistress had lost her interest in life and I thought this might renew it . ’ |
| 12 | And I went to last summer we took a er I took a sha er not a sha erm tt static caravan in , at er Prestatyn an and erm |
| 13 | ‘ On that particular day , we arrived there about ten o'clock , and I refused at first to go any farther ; the charm of those gardens and their flowers was so great that I wanted never to leave them . |
| 14 | Not that I want to look as if I shop at Next , or look cute , or anything , it 's just that I ca n't afford to dress the way I 'd like to . |
| 15 | The climb continued by Knarlton hoot to Hudson Quarry , where wild sage was growing thickly amongst the limestone and grass , until I came at last to the rougher pasture below Hazely . |
| 16 | Yeah , well I think that we ought to get them or somebody to put a retraction , I mean we dare n't do it ourselves , but I think in next month 's |
| 17 | I could partly understand Sally 's comments because I heard at second hand from Jack Mason about the bickering that went on between manufacturers and the players ' agents about contracts . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm getting fed up with people telling me that , because I think at last I do know what I 'm doing . |
| 19 | This is because I have at last discovered the key to my existence , the meaning of my life . |
| 20 | when I got in last night . |
| 21 | To my mind it 's a pity you did n't take that attitude when you were first made aware of the situation , because when I returned from next door you were still yelling your head off at her and painting a vivid picture of what her life would be with an illegitimate child tacked on to her . |
| 22 | When I started at first erm |
| 23 | Also when I leave on 4th Feb , I have a 12 hour wait at Rio de Janeiro , so I hope I can look round the city . |
| 24 | I share my hon Friend 's appreciation of the value and importance of the large reforms proposed in the Bill of 1939 , and when I decided , as I announced on 23rd March , to appoint an Advisory Council to assist in the preparation of a programme of reforms , I certainly had it in mind that many of the proposals in that Bill — improved it may be by further consideration and fresh ideas — might find a place in such a programme . |
| 25 | Within days it was obvious that the extent of the dissolution was every bit as great as I had at first suspected . |
| 26 | Or was the fact of their friendship with Gideon just an unwelcome coincidence , as I had at first supposed . |
| 27 | But she could n't ever see me , though I think at first she knew I was around , so now I mostly stay where I am and amuse myself with some of the other kids who are here too . |