Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "adventure" ¶ 547
from Brown Corpus
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

I and don't
`` I don't have many strays coming to my front door '', he said.
`` I mean, we don't have any way to get there and we can't expect you to quit work just to take us to town ''.
He stopped, embarrassed, and Morgan said, `` I understand that, but I don't savvy why you'd go off and leave your jobs in the first place ''.
I don't know yet, it's crazy ; ;
I don't want to leave it ''.
Now dammit, I don't want to go into any more explanations.
It's bigger than it has to be, though I don't see where it's doing any harm.
`` I don't mind washing dishes now and then '', he said pleasantly.
I don't know what goes on around here, and I don't care.
I don't know what makes you think you can get away with this kind of business, and I don't care about that, either.
We've been starving and I don't like to starve ''.
I'm well aware that you've got a pedigree as long as my leg, and that I don't amount to anything.
`` I don't know, Tom.
But there's one thing I never seen or heard of, one thing I just don't think there is, and that's a sportin' way o' killin' a man ''!!
`` I don't know, Mr. Brenner '', he said haltingly, beginning to get an inkling of Brenner's plans.
If I don't come back in the house, Breed's going to '' --
I don't know what you're up to, but when Brenner '' --

I and know
`` I know '', Jones said dejectedly.
`` I know him.
My future lay solely with the hall, yet what did I know about the hall at this point??
I wished to prepare myself but did not even know what sort of clothes I ought to be wearing.
`` I know you've got a grudge against me, and maybe I can't blame you.
I suppose you don't know anything about a piece of two-by-four, either ; ;
`` I know you ain't ''!!
I said, `` Do we know each other, Miss ''??
He caught up with me once and grabbed me, but I was all covered with zing -- it's very slippery, you know ''.
`` I didn't know.
`` How would I know??
True, she was my Aunt, married to an Uncle related to me only by marriage, but why she had married a man twice her age, and more, perhaps, I did not know or much care.
Why she married him I do not know.
`` I know.

I and about
I have to think about it.
I meant what I said about that fire.
Sometimes I was aware of people moving about in the darkness.
Later I would remember what this pompous little man had told me about the worth of a ticket.
For weeks I wandered about this neighborhood of warehouses and garages, truck terminals and taxi repair shops, gasoline pumps and longshoremen's lunch counters, yet never did I cease to feel myself a stranger there.
When I asked him what, if anything, I could do about it, he surprised me by referring me to the director of the hall.
I understand how you feel about the child.
`` No, I remembered reading about you in the papers and that you lived here, and when it happened all I could think of was '' -- This time she stopped the rush of words herself.
I spun about and clattered through the front room to the door.
Sometimes I wondered vaguely what he did about women for my Aunt, by blood, had died some years ago, but neither of us said anything.
Even as she was telling me about it I became aware of a give-away flush that suffused her neck and moved upwards to her cheeks, and subconsciously I realized that when she entered the store she did not switch on the lights.
I was standing beside her, watching the outspread palms and wondering about the old horsehair sofa against the wall on which he sometimes napped.
I was thinking about that.
When I show up he will know you are a good wife to have told him about it ''.
`` I know something about Eromonga.

0.068 seconds.