Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 I finished my list of demands and took it to the Branch Office , where I received something of a hero 's welcome .
2 He said our flight had been delayed and he 'd spent the time in the bar , and then added , rather unconvincingly , that some woman had insisted on ‘ plying Phaeton with liquor ’ as he put it , but there was a hollowness in the way he said it , and I do n't think either Gill or I believed him for a moment .
3 Whenever that happens , rather than going back to the track I play something else that will fit , or I leave it as an improvisational section , so to speak .
4 Although I tease it with a tender rage
5 I would never have dared speak so , but she was quite unselfconscious , although I suspected her of an intention to shock — to shock me as much as anyone .
6 Although I remained something of an outsider to the M.I.T. philosophy as it was at that time , I carried something of this arrogance back to England with me .
7 I was so surprised that I followed him without a word .
8 The old Frenchman was delighted with the tobacco and soap and he insisted that I join him in a drink .
9 Just that I saw him on a train to London a couple of weeks ago .
10 I was only going to say , Chair , that before my time in local government , that I 've mine as an observer each side , er , there was no problem for local authorities to raise a rate , er , there was no restrictions on this , and if they thought they could get away with it politically , they did , and they provided the services , that , that they believed people wanted .
11 I was feeling so bad that I treated it as a kind of moral victory that I was able to empty most of the water out of the obviously Gav-filled kettle and leave the level at the minimum mark .
12 But I am glad that I provoked him into an unqualified withdrawal of his disgraceful unjustified comments .
13 Not every day , nor as often as I would wish , but I took my middle daughter to see it yesterday and we hugged it together , and two days before that I hugged it with a friend .
14 It really should n't work , but the wretched book is so irresistible that I devoured it in a day , fighting off friends and strangers who fell on it like vultures on a carcass the moment it was cast aside with a happy sigh . ’
15 But it is impossible for me not to feel that my body is other than I , that I inhabit it like a house , and that my face is a mask which , with or without my consent , conceals my real nature from others . ’
16 It is important that I put myself in a position to be able to give you the best possible advice .
17 ‘ And is n't it fortunate that I know you for a blind fool ? ’
18 Now that I seek myself in a serpent
19 I got so tired of having juice pouring into my bag that I take it in a little lemonade bottle now .
20 Please let solicitors deal with everything , and also , please believe me when I say that I want nothing but a few mementos of my father .
21 ‘ He claims that I employed him as an assistant in order to find him a real job . ’
22 I have to confess that I walloped her with a newspaper but I did n't touch her . ’
23 Obvious efforts are being made here to reduce the damage , which was much worse than I remembered it from a previous visit .
24 I try to justify it in terms of training the intellect to think in an abstract and critical way , so I regard it as a general education .
25 Soon after I got him I noticed a lump under his tummy , so I took him for a thorough check-up .
26 At this point I thought she might be distracted by the kid whose chair was sticking out , so I asked him for a second time to move back even further .
27 Kevin : Well , I 'd jist got my Giro , So I asked her for a Biro — If she
28 South Gully looks good so I excuse myself past a team on the first pitch who are finding the thin , bubbled ice formation awkward .
29 I was convinced that the law would back us , so I found someone at a local law centre and she confirmed it , so we went back .
30 So I watched you for a while , and when you saw me watching , and you looked nervous , as though you thought me a criminal , about to steal all the stock , it amused me to tease you , try and discover why Donal thought you special .
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