Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [subord] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than so As I say you associate the car and the number together . |
| 2 | The rain was falling harder than ever as I cycled home down the Banbury Road , through the science ghetto on Parks Road and into a time-warp . |
| 3 | I missed my dad more than ever as I went into the house , ahead of the others , and climbed the drab stairs to lie on my bed , looking out at the bright blue sky above the street . |
| 4 | If only if I had that ability ! |
| 5 | ‘ I was actually satisfied with that , if only because I 'd resigned myself to the fact that I 'd never be thin , ’ she admits . |
| 6 | If I had admitted to being cold , I should also have had to admit that I was hungry , and this was something I was incapable of doing — if only because I did n't believe it to be true . |
| 7 | And there it hung until long after I 'd left to go to secondary school in Camelford . |
| 8 | But if just once I feel I 've run as hard as I possible could , in good shape , and I 've still only done 27:50 , maybe I 'll be happy to say , ‘ Oh well , Solly , you 've been kidding yourself all along ’ . ’ |
| 9 | time , cos like when I went to Joanie |
| 10 | plus something , and an seven times that one would give you minus pass onto that , then twenty four times twenty four is five hundred and seventy six , I square , for it 's minus I square , minus formula cos then when I add to add I get six hundred and twenty five , it 's just , it 's one , you know like the three , four , five , triangle , in Pythagoras , yeah , you know , when you get three , four , five , and you can make them three squared , four squared , so is five squared , right , well , seven , twenty four , twenty five , is another one of those , right that 's how I knew seven , twenty four , I knew is six hundred and twenty five , that 's how I , that 's how I knew it 's . |
| 11 | Well now , what they 've done something which I think if there as I said to you in the first place , if they 'd have run their cards played their cards right , they could have said to that fellow ‘ look you 've got no rights to be here , we never gave you planning ’ what 's wrong with this planning people , they step here and they step there , there 's people do things without planning permission , they do nothing at all about it , if I was to go and stick something up in my front garden , they 'd come along and say ‘ hey , . ’ |
| 12 | because like when I see him , you know , and he has been sorted out a bit recently not really sorted |
| 13 | I 'll take it home this weekend and record family relations in Birkwood , that 'll be an eye opener because like if I read the handicap for him , he talks absolute gobbledegook , that 'll be interesting . |
| 14 | I really prefer it if someone else does the cutting , because even though I 've worked in newspapers for so long , it 's terribly hard to know how to cut your own stuff . |
| 15 | Because even when I go up to his place , like it 's always been , like dropping him off , always being in a hurry . |
| 16 | Since just before I moved and it triggered it off . |
| 17 | I asked why should I bother to do that when presumably if I had set the trap I would expect Harry 's car still to be there after the races , and he just wrote down my answer as if I 'd made a confession . ’ |
| 18 | Er medically , as best as I understand what the doctors tell me , er I 'm er fine to carry the responsibilities and strain of er the cabinet job that I had . |
| 19 | But er when just before I left the polishing which was in nineteen thirty eight , er they were bringing in a lot of cellu it 's all th a lot of all this modern stuff is what they call cellulose , but I could n't tell you how it 's done , it 's done with a spray . |
| 20 | At first it was part of a dream , which vanished as soon as I woke and knew that I was alone on the broch island , lying on the turf in a sleeping-bag , with my head pillowed on my rolled-up sweater , but seemingly connected with the earth itself , from which , apparently right below my head , came a sound every bit as strange as the mermaids ' song of the seals . |
| 21 | Sure enough , as soon as I woke her up , Jean started yelling . |
| 22 | As soon as I chose the name Cliff Richard I came home , told the family , and they said , ‘ All right , Cliff . ’ |
| 23 | As it turned out , the studio ‘ was n't up to much any more and half the equipment was broken ’ , but , according to Mondays ' manager Nathan McGough , ‘ a little light went on as soon as I met Chris and Tina , so I phoned them to ask what they thought of the band and what they had planned for the next couple of months ’ . |
| 24 | I liked them very much as soon as I met them , that very damp Sunday afternoon . |
| 25 | As soon as I met you , the past was dead for me . |
| 26 | As soon as I met you , the past was dead for me … |
| 27 | I liked him as soon as I met him and came to do so even more over the ensuing months . |
| 28 | I will write again as soon as I know the opinion of the Parish Council . |
| 29 | ‘ Give me your number , and as soon as I know the score I 'll ring you back . |
| 30 | As soon as I know when the dates are fo for the concert . |