Example sentences of "of [noun] i [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was very interesting and I thought a good write up of and the things that he did , there to survive the World War Two and of course I go back to when the crews were formed and we flew together training at Pyo Texas and at er Dallasburgh , Tennessee and then from there went overseas , we went to er Scotville , Illinois and picked up new planes in Petermover and it was , we went to Stagen area . |
| 2 | That 's in the oh a lot of people did , oh yes , lot of people spent the money but I was one of the fortunate ones I had a little bit left because I mean I was , er I was very lucky myself , I mean I had a decent job at that time from time I left school and when I was on the dredging plant , I mean you take er in nineteen twenty five when er a schoolboy left school , his money was about ten shillings a week as an errand boy but I was one of the fortunate being a cabin boy on the dredger , I was getting thirty five shillings a week which was a lot of money and then after a few months they , I , they wanted another deck hand , so of course I went on there on four pound a week and then I was well off . |
| 3 | And er and then er of course I went back to me mother after me grandmother died , I went to me mother and er mind you when I was th young there was a lot of poverty about you know there was er no security pay and no er and you could n't get any money from anywhere or anything like that you know and er so it used to er had to do the best you can . |
| 4 | Of course I came down to earth on my next round . |
| 5 | Of course I worry about that because I 'm a human being , but that can make you paralysed . |
| 6 | And of course I carried on , carried on . |
| 7 | well we went on a course , for a week up Newcastle and of course er erm we had to be there for nine o'clock so we had to catch the bus , at the latest half past eight so you 're up at you 're up at seven and you get showered and what have you cos there 's a shower in the be bedroom get yourself all ready so you 're down by about erm half seven , quarter to eight , like so you tend to think quarter of an hour to the erm bus stop which is right outside the door of the hotel we were getting so and we use the bus rather than take the car in daily , cos it 's easier so I and er and of course I sat down and had a breakfast and I thoroughly enjo , I did n't have any cereals you know , I says well er and I had a little bit of orange orange juice , but it was this erm made up orange juice |
| 8 | I want it to kind of and of course I ended up buying more stuff ! |
| 9 | But er of course I gave up that and went er when I went on to the council . |
| 10 | Full of misgiving I drove on into the darkness . |
| 11 | I mean , I 'd had the feeling before , a bit , the first couple of times I went up on the End , it was that much closer to the spindle . |
| 12 | Oh it is now yes , you 've got , I mean you 've got the service now have n't you and erm , but I like at St Margaret 's hospital I 'd been , I had been , I went in there to have my last boy , but they 're very , very good there they were , I 've not been in , I 've been in , I 've had treatment here for my hip and that up at Harlow but they would n't do the operation because of my blood clotting you see , so therefore I 've got to grin and bear it , I 've had eight years of it , I could n't walk for six months , but now I struggle and get around as I say with a couple of sticks I get round |
| 13 | Well erm I actually stopped smoking about er , two years ago and was quite surprised at the amount of weight I put on in about five months , which was two stone , which I did n't think I 'd deserved ! |
| 14 | In a kind of panic I walked back to the carob and along the east side of the gulley to the top of the cliff that overlooked the private beach . |
| 15 | After spending all morning talking to clients on the telephone , in place of lunch I nipped up to the golf club and played a few holes with one of the assistants . |
| 16 | For a couple of days I got on with life 's rich pageant without thinking any more of Jo or her bloody credit cards . |
| 17 | In the dead of night I crept down to the breakfast room , the nerve centre . |
| 18 | Then to the tune of ‘ By the waters of Babylon I sat down and wept ’ , we sang another version of the words . |
| 19 | In a kind of rush I went back to the main menu . |
| 20 | I know the first lot of bits I got in were all employment officers |
| 21 | The other kind of sex I learned about was the meaning of the four-letter words the boys chalked up on the playground wall , though the explanations were inadequate and puzzling , passed on by other children and received with incredulity . |
| 22 | I am writing to you for information about the kind of courses I read about in the article on the Features Page of last week 's Daily Telegraph which gave the address of your organization . |
| 23 | Erm the on the only bit of information I got down there is as far as the maximum limits are concerned I do n't think it 's a government I think it 's an insurance company agreement actually of seventy |
| 24 | I took the coach , and after thirty-six hours of travelling I got down at Thornfield village , and almost ran across the fields in my hurry to see the well-known house again , and its owner . |
| 25 | The chain of events I sparked off nearly led to my untimely demise . |
| 26 | Having said that , in some of the bits of Shoreditch I passed through I stuck out like a sore thumb . |
| 27 | I can not recall the number of occasions I shuffled back in regulation sex cinema garb to see Daughters of Darkness , the lesbian vampire movie that starred Delphine Seyrig as Countess Erzsébet Bàthory and Andrea Rau as her lover Ilona . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , in that brief space of time I turned up the flame . |