Example sentences of "[coord] i [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Yes — I have my own personal account there , and I go there when I want to cash a cheque . " |
| 2 | I had just received my first commission from the world 's greatest rock read and I had less than 24 hours to deliver the goods . |
| 3 | I am the TCCB 's lackey , and I act only when they order me . ’ |
| 4 | The verbal expression of a maxim will be something like : ‘ In circumstances of such and such a sort I shall act thus ’ , and I act immorally unless I can will that all agents should guide their behaviour by a corresponding maxim directed at themselves . |
| 5 | one of the lads at work come up says there 's a disco on March twenty eight and before I said I 'm already booked , I said yeah , he says er how much do you charge , I told him and I says well if you let me have confirmation as soon as you can and a deposit of ten or fifteen pounds as soon as you can |
| 6 | that 's right , and I thought well while the the pile 's there they wo n't know whose they are I 'll just . |
| 7 | I was actually quite low on the activists and higher on these three but I managed to wonder sometimes where I worked ever so hard on a session I ca n't really ca n't understand you know why it 's not going very well and I thought well when I then watched other people do something that had a lot of action I thought well why did they like that more and I never I did n't know but I 've actually learnt that you have to put activities in , cos you , you know you do get people with a very strong activist preference . |
| 8 | cos it was only like sort of eight inches difference and I thought well when I wash 'em they might shrink anyway |
| 9 | Until I re and , well until my husband retired at sixty and I thought well if he 's going to retire at sixty , I might as well retire , you see . |
| 10 | I only got one packet cos they 're cheap in Gateway and I thought well if if they 're alright might just go on them then . |
| 11 | Yeah , I know you wanted that one and I thought well if this morning |
| 12 | ‘ He asked for one last Christmas and I insisted even though Barry — Mr Tuckett — thought it a bit childish . ’ |
| 13 | when I was sixteen because it 's then I started to get these free passes and I had a sister then who lived at Rye and I had never been across London so the next door neighbour came with me to see me across London er because I was so young you see and I said right as long as you show me across London I can come back alone , you see , and so I came back alone and I , that 's when I started , so from sixteen and er and as I say I went to Cambridge in the nineteen thirty one , it was the last day of well say nineteen thirty two , you see , and , and also in the twenties I was going on holiday alone and I went to once er to the Isle of Man and when I was er I , I sat next , well being by myself , you see , they put me in , to a little table near the wall . |
| 14 | And I said well if they fit him I 'll have them . |
| 15 | I just , I just got seven films and I said well if they Friday if I do n't , well |
| 16 | And I said well if you want to take him earlier . |
| 17 | And I said well if y why do n't you come to us ? |
| 18 | staying open , I ai n't going , I ca n't handle it I said I just wan na get out , it was really like a sentence I just could n't stand it of course I laughed , me and Elaine went to the meeting same place , same wall and I kept looking at her and we brought you in here to say thanks , and Elaine looked at me and I looked at her and I said well if that 's all he 's got ta say I said I 'm not , I , what did I say to Elaine ? |
| 19 | and I said well if you have that now , you better eat your dinner . |
| 20 | And I said well if , if you 're gon na do this sort of thing you keep your bloody gob shut . |
| 21 | And I knew just where you 'd be and how you 'd be lying . ’ |
| 22 | I was looking forward to the film because there 's a beginning and an end , and I knew exactly where the character was going . |
| 23 | What I needed was something like a slightly battered Ford Transit van , and I knew exactly where I could borrow one . |
| 24 | But I had my book , and I knew roughly where all the bits were . |
| 25 | They all come in and tell us we 're the busiest and I say well if we 're the busiest , God help those that 're the quietest . |
| 26 | I said I do n't know , and I stood there when he was |
| 27 | But we all went swimming on Tuesday nights at Hamilton baths , and I did better than some because my father had taught me to swim on holiday . |
| 28 | Because I just sort of went to work the following day and I worked away as normal . |
| 29 | My posting came through and I was posted to Swordstone this side of Norwich , so I was still quids in , I could get home once a week , twenty four hour pass and then erm after a while erm , having served at Regiment , I was posted up to , as the Sergeant Artillery Clerk with the Brigade , an ack-ack brigade up at Coventry , just outside Coventry and then of course the A T S were coming in , were coming in in quite large numbers then and they were replacing male personnel and then I was posted abroad and I went to Egypt where I was there again , fortunate enough , I suppose , to go into the echelon , the second echelon which was the Records Office of all the forces or the armoured personnel in the Middle East and I worked there until I was actually demobbed from there but I was out in Egypt there for two , just over two years , came back to Northampton where I was finally demobbed and allowed to come home and as I said I came home one week and I was back at work the next . |
| 30 | That week Hannah and I worked harder than we had ever worked in our lives before , but at last all was ready . |