Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 This fact I had ample opportunities of verifying on the islands of Bass 's Straits , where I had scarcely stepped from the boat before every creature was made acquainted with my presence — no small annoyance to me , whose object was to secure the wary cereopsis and eagle , which with thousands of petrels and many other kinds of water-birds tenant these dreary islands . ’
2 You 've got ta probe and establish the reasons why I 'm gon na talk to him and most people it 's , it 's , it 's a lie , they 're not gon na talk to him , they want to use the accountant as a reason to say oh erm I 'm , I ca n't do it this time the accountant said no or I 've not spoken to him yet I 'll have to put it off for a , for a bit longer
3 But I actually think that you 've got access problems in both of them and they have to be considered because the do really affect severely or they could severely affect er the success or failure of the programme , and it 's these list of things which you think , now I 've thought about that or I have n't thought about that .
4 Although I remain strongly opposed to any closer political or economic union with Europe , will my right hon. Friend accept that the leadership that he has shown at the Maastricht conference and his toughness in the negotiations clearly display that he is the only party leader competent to govern this country during the next few years ?
5 Although I had already spoken to her about past lives , Maxine was not at all sure that she believed in the concept .
6 How was I to combat it , physically , menially , and although I had n't thought of it in those terms , spiritually as well ?
7 Although I had n't come across this Siberian wader before , it does turn up in Shetland occasionally .
8 Although I had always lived in a freezing cold damp house and spent a lot of my own childhood in hospital and even remember my own mum referring to our flats as pneumonia houses , in my ignorance I had never made the connection between our living conditions , ill health and the social and environmental climate .
9 Although I 've never thought about it if I was doing a job down here . ’
10 Rather like running the YMCA in fact , although I 'd never thought of it like that before .
11 So in a sense , although I have n't recorded in the meantime , I st I still would have ended up in the same place .
12 To find employment my father moved to Peterborough and although I have since lived at Rathcoole for a period I have found my childhood friends difficult to trace .
13 ( Although I have twice referred to Milton myself , I did so because I was grasping for images to convey something of the reality of the Devil .
14 Oisin , who knew a little of the theory of sorcery — ‘ Although I have never aspired to its practice , ’ he would have said modestly — knew that with the emerging of the first , the others would have gained strength and confidence .
15 Is this the chicken that I saw earlier transformed into little breaded
16 I 've been as far a a places as far apart as the presbytery of erm Annandale and Esdale which is to , what to south of Scotland , erm and I ca n't think of any corresponding place erm in the north but there have been places in the north that I 've also gone to , and this is my donor card .
17 Unless there are any other questions that I 've not dealt with yet .
18 The only other thing I have to put to you is this that I 've already put to er what we allege went on in that bedroom .
19 It 's just that I 've already mentioned to someone else , and if they ca n't go , then I 'll offer it to you .
20 Okay is there anybody else that you would need to talk to about the recommendations that I 've just given to you ?
21 on that syllabus that I 've just looked at , so
22 The only thing that I 've just thought about actually is window wh in the me on the measurement side rather than anything else is that I have n't Because we 've just had those windows replaced , I have n't finished decorating around the top .
23 Mind , there was one night that I 've often thought about .
24 what is that , what happens to that thirty thousand pounds , that I 've now applied for ?
25 That particular single matter was not pursued by the ombudsman an and that therefore means that erm it is n't something that er he felt was a question of maladministration but I did want just to emphasise that this particular point , because in the more er i in the recent report to the Policy Resources Committee on ombudsman complaints , the number , and I ca n't recall exactly what the number was , but the number included in that report relating to planning matters was certainly higher than one , I think there were about half a dozen and what I wanted to take the opportunity of explaining was the , the majority of those all but the one that I 've now referred to , er where in fact relating to district matter planning applications and not to the County Council .
26 Barring a calamity erm they will retain their option with us to continue on a two year deal , erm they perhaps , and I have to erm be honest about this , I think they are probably in a marketing sense , the most aggressive erm marketing company that I 've ever witnessed in terms of the style , the panache , the charisma that they have from within .
27 Honestly the only bad thing that I 've ever got from a shop is a porno video .
28 ‘ You know , ’ she said quietly , ‘ that I 've never slept with any man until today . ’
29 To say that no man could ever take the place of Tony is to say that I 've never got over his death . ’
30 because er it 's obviously gon na fill a gap in my financial planning that I 'd not thought about in the past so I did find it particularly helpful .
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