Example sentences of "[conj] [subord] i [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Both sports were clearly popular and well-established traditions ; but when I asked my Indian friends about their survival in modern Delhi , they all shook their heads . |
| 32 | But when I get my new job , I do n't know . |
| 33 | But when I saw you that first time in the garden , I most certainly wanted you , My Cassie . |
| 34 | But when I missed it last year because of the Euro-Asia match I was severely criticised by the chairman . ’ |
| 35 | I took a Polaroid photograph and sent it to Colin Willock , our producer — but when I phoned him later , he said , ‘ How long did it take you to set that one up ? ’ ’ |
| 36 | But as I studied him any aggressive feelings I may have harboured evaporated quickly . |
| 37 | Sgurr a' Mhaim was my 5Oth Munro , but as I hauled my dejected little body up the last few hundred feet , I was thinking only of rest , not triumph . |
| 38 | Because although I hated it worse than anything , I did enjoy it too , once I got used to it . |
| 39 | I had to sleep with it closed because if I left it open the cat would jump in and more likely than not land from ten feet on to my face — a nasty way to wake up . |
| 40 | Because as I ask him some question about women , wine or wit Dudley Moore is busy chewing his nails until they might well bleed , it does n't seem too rude to mention the ends of his fingertips . |
| 41 | Er in my opinion at this particular time we must bear in mind the financial constraints that we work under and er would the board agree with me that erm survival comes first yes but it 's obvious that the programme that we 've er had put forward is a good compromise between preferred in the arts , maintaining the theatre as a viable proposition and er entertaining the people of this particular part of the world because as I understand it this theatre was not just the artist also an entertainment centre and it 's in this area that er it 's quite obvious when you look into the figures on this area the popular area that the majority income comes so you 'll have to make a compromise and I will congratulate the board on what I think is pretty reasonable compromise so it 's quite obvious in the programme . |
| 42 | If you say something to me I check that I have understood your message by saying it back to you in my own words , for if I repeat your own words exactly you will doubt whether I have really understood you . |
| 43 | And my speed on the TI 's little keys is n't the same as when I use my beloved Cherry keyboard . |
| 44 | The place is in the same gleaming order as when I left it last , the only sign of Lee 's presence being the neatly made camp-bed and a regimented row of balled socks beside his kit-bag in the dining room . |