Example sentences of "[conj] i [adv] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | There was also a stage where I deeply resented the foetus , although now I think I have killed this feeling . |
2 | Next came a stomach-churning visit to the Snake Temple , where I actually held a snake very briefly , but drew the line at having it photographed around my neck ! |
3 | This equipment I kept for about three years , although I never forgot the quality of the original sounds I 'd heard , so I decided to invest in what I thought was some serious equipment . |
4 | I could hardly refuse , but I did refuse to take any payment , although I really needed the money . |
5 | Physically , there is a lot more movement in my neck and although I still have the arthritis there is a marked improvement all round . |
6 | And although I infinitely preferred a walk across the corner of the field to the privy by the duck pond , to the four flights of stairs I had to descend at Reine , with a com-munal Turkish crouch at the end of it , I wondered how Otto would adjust to outside facilities . |
7 | In may respects , my shop is just the opposite , although I certainly have a health foods section , as do many delicatessens . |
8 | I can see this now , yet it was not until nearly ten years after I became a Christian that I finally faced the issue that whatever other influences had been involved in my conversion ( such as my family and friends and the work of God in my life ) there was a sense in which the decision to believe was entirely my responsibility . |
9 | Even the fact that I finally found a trickle of scummy water , which let me rinse some of the filth from my boots , did nothing to lift my spirits . |
10 | This would be the day that I finally cracked the North Shore . |
11 | It was a cold day to be photographing with an open canopy , but the P-40 looked like the quintessentially classic without its war paint and the formation was so smooth that I scarcely noticed the temperature outside . |
12 | I then pointed out to him that I strongly deprecated a dissolution at this moment as I had implicit confidence in him and in the Conservative Party now in power , and I considered that as most countries in Europe , if not in the world , were in a chaotic and indeed dangerous state , it would be a pity if this country were to be plunged into the turmoil of a General Election on a question of domestic policy which will arouse all the old traditional bitterness of the hard fought battles between Protection and Free Trade : also that it was quite possible that his majority might be reduced , or that he might not get a majority at all . |
13 | I do n't feel at the moment that I even have the right to his name . ’ |
14 | It is appropriate that I here take the opportunity of welcoming the thrust of recent authoritative reports detailing guidelines for good corporate governance . |
15 | His ring record alone demanded the attention of the BBBC and he believed that : ‘ It was through public opinion that I eventually got a title . |
16 | I do not propose to say more at this stage , except that I wholly accept the evidence of the surgeon as to the desperate nature of this situation , and that I grant the declaration as sought , which will include provision for the necessary consequential treatment in addition to the Caesarean operation . |
17 | Congress , it 's against this background , against a lifetime of commitment to equality that I firmly oppose the change . |
18 | I made a record with Sonny Terry , called ‘ Whoopin' , that I also like a lot . |
19 | I recall that I generously made no charge for the time involved in this interview ! |
20 | ‘ Prince Philip was interested to her that I already held the bronze and silver awards and asked me whether I had enjoyed myself going for gold , ’ said Christine . |
21 | But rigging and sails did , and once I was on deck , coiling and sorting the ropes and making notes of what I would need , I barely noticed anything else , time slipping by and my mind so concentrated on the job that I barely felt the wind force rising , small frozen particles of snow driving almost horizontally . |
22 | Too late in the day because all the hotels are full and I end up tramping round in the dark , lugging my pack and money ( cash , a great wad of hard currency ) , nervous of the hatchet-faced youths who watch me meandering round , concentrating so intently on making it look as though I know exactly where I 'm heading that I soon have no idea where I am on the mapless streets of Algiers . |
23 | Like many of my colleagues , I plead guilty to the fact that I willingly supported the principle behind the original poll tax Bill . |
24 | Well you should y I I I er these la these these labels are so difficult to fit because if you say , Moving to the right , you then have to show me what policies the government is pursuing and you 'll probably find that I either play the part in thinking off argu arguing for them some years before some of my colleagues . |
25 | ‘ Has it occurred to you that I nearly disturbed the murderer — that I might have been killed as well ? |
26 | The hon. and learned Gentleman will know that I recently had the privilege of giving the Sir George Bean memorial lecture in which I set out in some detail to the Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women the basis for my approach to such matters . |
27 | It was against this densely-textured historical backdrop that I recently awaited the delivery of my own fax machine . |
28 | And I genuinely would say , that I actually think the amount of international and European work going on within the organisation as a whole , is now greater than it was before . |
29 | There is something so immovable , so enduring — yet I am perfectly aware that one day he will fall down — so mysterious about my old mate that although I ca n't say that I actually feel a surge of energy , I do feel some sort of ‘ reward ’ . |
30 | But now I feel that I actually have the ability . ’ |