Example sentences of "[subord] [conj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | We deliberately went for a position of responsibility and moderation in this argument , where if I may say so , some other people have n't put the same constraints on themselves . |
| 2 | Well I suppose it must of been me but I have no idea when or why or where because I generally cut the erm side bits off . |
| 3 | Drawing in charcoal is more like painting where as I like to encourage precise , analytical draughtsmanship which is best executed in pencil . ’ |
| 4 | Where as I said er working with timber . |
| 5 | Erm however erm it it does sound as though it 's one of these policies where as I suspected and said earlier today that it really does n't have any effect on anything and it 's probably something that could be erm crossed out and nobody would even notice it had gone . |
| 6 | Where as I say , the railway is a very very important issue . |
| 7 | Yeah well , where as I will then ! |
| 8 | So I said well you know , I ca n't just wind it up over the next six months , I said er what I wan na do I said is erm I got ta carry it on for that transit for that Orion till I finished anyway so it 's got ta go another year so I said well what I 'm feeling about doing I said is er just sort of keeping a finger in the pie I said , he said , if I 'd said tomorrow , if I had finished the whole the tomorrow I 've got ta buy a car I can buy it finance so I 'm gon na get no tax relief on the H P I get no depreciation no nothing like that I said so at least if I still self employed I can if I have the sort of two or three vehicles or whatever three , four , five vehicles but I said at least I can have some erm and I can then sort of they would be more utilised , where as I said at the moment we got more vehicles than we really need to keep full capacity so he said yeah , yeah fair enough then . |
| 9 | And that looked pretty funny like and it fell down a couple of days ago and maybe a pretty while afore that I du n no . |
| 10 | " It 's better than where I was , " she said quietly . |
| 11 | More than once I have seen a hapless opponent reaching down to scoop a front kick that never comes , and getting caught on the undefended side of the head ! |
| 12 | Much later it struck me as odd that I experienced no superstitious fear or repugnance in the presence of a dead body , although I am so squeamish that more than once I have had to ask a neighbour to deal with a dead rabbit that one of the cats had brought in during the night . |
| 13 | Except that I can not work like that . |
| 14 | It may well be there is nothing wrong with hops in this form except that I find that brewers who use them , such as Whitbread and Charles Wells , produce beers with a bitterness that is a shade too harsh for my liking . |
| 15 | He got four years and later emigrated to Australia , whereas I was fined £30 and am welcome on Wogan , except that I am not . |
| 16 | Who the rise was due to I do n't know except that I think David probably would n't have had the idea to have opened such wonderful offices and created such a great mystique about it which MainMan had . |
| 17 | My own plans are still totally up in the air , except that I am sure to resume my work when the new season gets underway — and then I am just going to make music wherever I am offered the best conditions for it . |
| 18 | Except that I wo n't be alone . |
| 19 | It was crucial to the consistency of the work that it should not conclude : the narrator simply states that ‘ there has been no decision except that I 'm moving on ’ ( Wurlitzer 1969 : 161 ) . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't know what to say , ’ Farmer Bolsover said to Brownie Owl , ‘ except that I am very sorry for what I did say about the Brownies , especially about the Brownie who climbed my apple-tree for her budgie . |
| 21 | So it is bread on both rods , except that I make a paste for the free-line rod so that I am still offering a bait on a weightless rig . |
| 22 | I could see she was an unfit woman , and although I was resolved not to tell anyone now of my qualifications , except that I had been an ARP worker , I did try to be as helpful to her as I could . |
| 23 | ‘ Except that I will not detain you in prison or expel you from Scotland , on one condition . |
| 24 | I would be tempted to suggest that the Thames Valley CID read too many detective stories , except that I doubt whether they read at all . |
| 25 | It was important to me that I did tell them individually because on their own I felt I could get their attention and having to explain why I felt like this , but more than that , I wanted them to fully understand that all of a sudden I was n't a lesbian whose name was Carla — I was still Carla , except that I just had different feelings . |
| 26 | She gave two sharp little nods , as if that finished the matter , which no doubt it did , except that I still looked for gaps in her defences . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't know no more , except that I helped him to hide in the hayloft . |
| 28 | Except that I had n't seen him since he lay on his camp-bed and watched me sleeping naked with his beloved wife , the woman I 'd always characterized to him as ‘ sister ’ . |
| 29 | I imagine many a western pioneer got the same sort of surprise as I did when the bride eventually arrived ; except that I did n't marry the dog — there 's nothing peculiar about me . |
| 30 | Not much to report this week on the home front , except that I have a sneaking feeling I may have broken a bone in my right hand . |