Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [noun sg] i [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I 'd like to do is to help them to see that they do n't need to give up on the computer , that they can actually be the master of it , although of course I do n't I 'm not suggesting that they become programmers — that would be to abdicate their function in another way — but certainly they can understand it , and I think of course it keeps coming back to this issue over and over again , an issue about education . |
| 2 | She 's enjoying herself , we met her at John 's house I felt nervous this morning for sleeping home late although in fact I have been awake quite a lot in between , but |
| 3 | Well more than in theory I suppose . |
| 4 | I was diagnosed as being asthmatic at the age of 48 , although on reflection I suspect that I had probably suffered mild intermittent symptoms in childhood . |
| 5 | Yeah , cos of course I mean this is something that , I suppose yo you 're not for that yet some things that you assimilate into your language which simply |
| 6 | If in battle I see an explosion and my comrade , having lost half a leg , is doubled up in agony , there is no possibility that he is acting or pretending . |
| 7 | How long will it be before they pair off — if in fact I have a pair ? |
| 8 | I 'm quite happy to listen to some things about the election cos in fact I do n't know |
| 9 | Unless of course I have derma-optical perception . |
| 10 | This is as far as I can get with my researches for now , because after lunch I have to go to the Treasury , with my colleague Jane Showell , for a meeting of the joint working party on Sunningdale ; not even death takes precedence over the Treasury . |
| 11 | My social history is very different from Trevelyan 's , one of the most remarkable books on English social history , because of course I come from a very different background , I 've different experience from Trevelyan , but also I 've been writing at a different time . |
| 12 | Because of course I have my voice in here with me , as well as my hands . |
| 13 | Having said that when you were looking at the , at the sporting side you er you put in some , some questions about who he was , who he was playing er his sports with , obviously with the idea of , of referrals erm but because in fact I think because you had n't done anything to referrals earlier on , when you brought it up there was an obj er there was an objection from Martin to it . |
| 14 | I would be grateful if at some point Mr you were to deal with er Doctor 's er most recent comments on the Greater Crested Newt , since of course I 've only just had those er more or less on coming into this room , and I have n't had a chance |
| 15 | Whereas in management I take the raw clay of inexperience , then shape and mould it into a team of teapots , Vic had an old-fashioned approach , plucking players with natural ability and building them into a cohesive unit but where no player 's unique , individual flair was stifled . |
| 16 | Whereas in reality I think people have got to take responsibility and say , this is a reasonable time for you to do it in and we will control that reasonable time . |
| 17 | then you know I 'm not sure either whether of course I mean one would hope that erm the institute would have certain requirements about the erm practical period that you |
| 18 | This part of me is still quite strong , though of course I know there is no logical reason for race hatred . |
| 19 | It has always been my ‘ extremism ’ or my ‘ unpreparedness to compromise ’ , even though of course I have to compromise all the time . |
| 20 | From total instinct as much as from injury I lay as dead . |
| 21 | You see , I suddenly felt that I could n't bear it , not knowing where they were going to be for the next three and a half weeks ( though in retrospect I doubt whether the location of the groom much perturbed me ) . |
| 22 | He does , treading slowly as I am uncertain of the words though in fact I do know them , having memorised them like a nursery rhyme . |
| 23 | As in Belcourt I think to myself : I am seeing what he saw , the same light , the sky , but it fails to work as it should ; it changes nothing , neither enhances nor diminishes my experience of the place . |
| 24 | And I could put myself down as in case I get there for a day or two . |
| 25 | As to Caretaker I think you know my position there . |
| 26 | As to oil I use the lightest possible , which is grapeseed oil , but it has a high water content . |
| 27 | There are also delays — though on occasion I have had Chandos ' Bax and Hyperion 's Simpson discs in my collection before the reviews appear in GRAMOPHONE . |