Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb base] of [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ More than I approve of most of what I see down here . |
| 2 | He was concentrating furiously now , for , he thought , if I know of these places , then surely it must be because people have been able to talk of them . |
| 3 | He subjects every item of expenditure within his control to the question : " What is the investment opportunity if I approve of this expenditure ? " |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd like to stay on here when it runs out , though , because I think of this as my home now . ’ |
| 5 | ( I miss out the word puking from this Shakespearean phrase since I know of few instances in which a baby has strained the cassock of the clergyman baptising it , though doubtless readers may know of one . ) |
| 6 | When I fink of all that time 'e jus ' sat at the front door wiv 'is 'ead in 'is 'ands , I shudder . |
| 7 | When I think of all those young lives already in jeopardy … ’ |
| 8 | When I think of all those Cornish pasties , Cornish clotted cream and many of our eating habits in our childhood , I wonder whether all these panic measures are entirely necessary . |
| 9 | ‘ When I think of all those months I lived in the Store , not even knowing about the Outside … . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ When I think of all the hours you spend trying to help people with their problems … ’ |
| 11 | When I think of all the social problems there are I mean Creggan has everything . |
| 12 | ‘ When I think of all the time they 've wasted , trying to prove me guilty while the real killer goes free … ’ |
| 13 | I mean when I think of all the money that was poured into my education and nobody ever mentioned the kind of decisions one would have to make in the future and the problems you would have in trying to make use both of your education and have children and have the happy family life that our society encourages you to have and that we all perhaps want . |
| 14 | I still get randy when I think of that voluptuous female , as she was then . |
| 15 | ‘ When I think of that marvellous treasure being hawked around for sale … |
| 16 | When I think of that occasion and what " Happy " had to say to me ( but not in private ) I blush . |
| 17 | ‘ When I think of that poor child — ’ |
| 18 | I still chuckle when I think of that deadly , German secret weapon with its trunks , whiskers and puzzled expression and the panic it caused all those years ago . |
| 19 | She said then it goes down well it did do n't it ? oh when I think of that name . |
| 20 | " Good grief , when I think of some creature coming onto the moor and doing a vile thing like this ! |
| 21 | When I think of these schemata , I see bright images like the constellations of the heavens . |
| 22 | But when I went in , Gerry 's workmanship , when I think of those cupboards he put in for me |
| 23 | I do n't feel alarmed as I know of many secret passages , but they have all become too small to use . |
| 24 | But our complicity in taking those dreadful little uppers , of which I thoroughly disapproved , as I do of all narcotic stimulants , drew us closer together , so I submitted to their influence . |
| 25 | Every time an angler casts and curses when he loses his line , I , too , now curse as I think of some wild creature getting enmeshed in the deadly snare he has inadvertently set . |