Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I 'm doing all this because I believe in Labour and I love talking to people on doorsteps , finding out what matters to them . |
| 32 | I acquired the skills to do this before I knew about the world , purely because of God 's will . |
| 33 | And er , and that was , er go and did this before I went to school . |
| 34 | I 'll tell you this as I sit in the centre of my maze and listen to the clear song of the thrush : the murderous soul I met at Maubisson was one of the most chilling I have ever encountered . |
| 35 | However , at the tender age of eight I was unaware of all this as I marched from the back gate of Canberra , across a narrow road and into White City for the Borough Primary School Sports . |
| 36 | They are particularly popular when I play in front of old people . |
| 37 | I intend to make animal welfare one of my priorities in th United Kingdom presidency , as I made clear when I wrote to hon. Members on 27 February . |
| 38 | And I 'm not quite sure why Age Concern , which has had this for I think at least twenty years for their Christmas Carols , which is not included . |
| 39 | Sir we 've only had this for I think for three minutes before the start of the erm of of this erm session , I 'm just wondering if we could have ten minutes to read it ? |
| 40 | And I became interested when I heard of your interest in polio . |
| 41 | I missed this when I came to your house , ’ Maggie said quietly . |
| 42 | I had some experience of this when I lived at home , having to wait hours for the district nurses . |
| 43 | I was still worrying about this when I pulled into the hotel at Huacho , the mist thicker than ever and my eyes so tired they felt as though they had been sand-blasted . |
| 44 | erm There is a general concern I think with multiple occupancy that there 's , a whole way of life of East Oxford is changing , and not for the better , and indeed I was part of this when I moved into the area ten years ago . |
| 45 | R.B. Yes , another teacher mentioned this when I talked to her and I was saying that it seemed to me that it was a blind spot . |
| 46 | The night sky was still fairly light as I walked through the village , passing close to No. 6 Commando positions . |
| 47 | The wind was high when I knocked at her door , and I heard a voice from within that I knew not what to make of , though it sounded like the lullaby of a Mother to her Baby . |
| 48 | I was twenty-five years old when I came to England , and I am forty-five now . |
| 49 | Similarly , through Lata 's sister 's marriage to Pran you 're led into the world of politics and the subject of land reform , which sounded dull to me at first but became much more interesting as I got into it . ’ |
| 50 | And the rubbish bin in the kitchen was empty when I looked in it as we left . ’ |
| 51 | Now this house had been standing empty when I came in it , for twelve months . |
| 52 | In fact the other day I just could n't face yet another day of taunts , kicks and bag-snatching so I skived off school . |
| 53 | The Pope 's got more chance of gettin' pregnant than I 'ave of gettin' into the charts . |
| 54 | When I got indoors I was still so upset that I tore off the frock , ripping a sleeve in the process , but I did n't care ; I was so angry . |
| 55 | It began to prey on my mind so much that I went to the casualty department of Charing Cross Hospital . |
| 56 | ‘ Much nicer than I expected from the particulars , ’ she added . |
| 57 | One day , in one of these tiny streets , with shops on either side and with stalls of street vendors in front of them , the way was so crowded that I got to a place where it was impossible to move . |
| 58 | Everybody was drinking too much and I felt like a Mother Superior at the bottle factory outing . |
| 59 | ‘ I finished early and I called at the library for you . |
| 60 | The rest was easy and I got to within a hundred yards . |