Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [subord] i [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have been spinning coins together since I do n't know when , and in all that time ( if it is all that time ) I do n't suppose either of us was more than a couple of gold pieces up or down . |
| 2 | I prefer to leave pictures just as I finish them in front of the subject . |
| 3 | It has been almost three months now since I have been home here in England after spending three weeks holiday in France with my friend Rachel and her family . |
| 4 | One to the sea , which is about 80 miles away , and another to Sao Paulo which is quite near , and I hope to do some shopping for presents there before I come home . |
| 5 | Right now Stephen hang your cups up and put the knives and forks away while I sort this out . |
| 6 | To the girl he said , " Do n't put any calls through till I tell you , Inez . " |
| 7 | Something nice to wipe my muddy feet on when I come in ! |
| 8 | I , the armchair observer , lament the cessation of the old skills and crafts just as I deplore the desecration of the open fields by more and more bypasses , pylons , wires , bungalows , concrete , traffic and litter . |
| 9 | The ice occasionally shears away as I put my weight on it . |
| 10 | I have to put him into kennels tomorrow as I have to go away for some time and they insist that he be fully vaccinated . ’ |
| 11 | There remains a couple of concerns even though I think this pattern will serve . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll have to ask Granny For&am to let me clean my shoes again when I get to her cottage , ’ she told herself , as she picked her way between the puddles and muddy ruts of the lane . |
| 13 | I mean I think I 've already resigned myself to the fact that I 'm going to have to do one maybe two years more before I get anything like |
| 14 | I think I put your ideas up cos I wan na get that done , bit |
| 15 | But she has n't been there for a few weeks now so I think she might be ill . |
| 16 | I like boats even though I have n't even been on one . |
| 17 | That 's her maiden name , well it 's abo f about forty nine fifty years ago since I 've seen her . |
| 18 | ‘ I was a millionaire almost overnight about ten years ago so I have never been motivated for money . |
| 19 | ‘ We were chat-ting in Sainsbury 's , Mrs Patel and I , rather more years ago than I care to remember . |
| 20 | This is why you know , I , I think you should keep di I keep diaries from years ago because I know you do n't like nostalgia , and I do n't , but it 's interesting |
| 21 | He set off cheerfully for a final phase in Worcestershire , saying complacently , ‘ I do n't want any bands here when I come back . ’ |
| 22 | So I mean I suppose they 'll look at it in the same kind of way , somebody who 's got managerial , management qualities rather than I suppose people who are interested in the other side of it , the medical side of it , probably , really be geared up to organizing the money side of it would n't they , usually one or the other . |
| 23 | I bet you jot things down before I meet you . |
| 24 | I 'd like you to write things down because I think you 're gon na remember them , he says , hopefully ! |
| 25 | I might bring my take my cotton things in before I go peach . |
| 26 | Now I know there are some fish willing to feed I will cut down my feed rate to a dozen maggots only when I cast in . |
| 27 | In fact I usually take things easy until I have dinner at seven with the Smiths . |
| 28 | George thought grimly , ‘ That 's twenty pounds more than I get , or our Jonna . ’ |
| 29 | I have been constantly told what a fine man he was and I regret not being able to experience and appreciate his qualities first-hand as I have grown from a child to an adult . |
| 30 | And if I 've hung his coats up once I 've hung up , I 've hung them up a hundred times , he 's got a coat hanger on the back of the coat hook on the back of the door |