"I learnt a lot from the quarter-finals, I was quite nervous in that - but instead of being quite scary, the crowd really supported me, so I went out and just loved every minute," she commented.
We don't do that any more but we do use "'n'" instead of "and" quite often.
"I always go to bingo and I've noticed that instead of feeling quite jolly at Christmas, some pensioners at Christmas feel a bit depressed, so I've been talking to them about it," Mr Morrison said.
For example, a footprint on the beach has sand particles compressed together below a volume containing air only, instead of being quite evenly (randomly) spread over the volume occupied by the compressed and empty parts.
Over the weekend, Ed Miliband said that Labour would cap tuition fees at £6,000 instead of £9,000 – quite a turn-up for the books, since he opposed the hike in fees last year.
What a pleasure it is to hear him, in 1946, being bumptious instead of bitchy, not quite twenty-two and crowing about his accomplishments and plans: "The O. Henry introduction said that A Tree Of Night was a better story than Miriam, which of course it is, and raved on and on about it.
They are laughing instead of really being quite shy, so it has really brought them out.
One program that provided stipends to offset lost income to the family due to a child attending school instead of working was quite successful.
Hmmm, a bit harsh maybe, but it's true that there have been a few results where there's been a bit of an "Oh well, it'll be fine in 2012" attititude as if London is some kind of paradise with trees made of gold medals and grass made out of glory, instead of a city with quite a good bus service.
