Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [conj] i [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When , towards the end , he said , ‘ I am convinced that where I have failed no one could have succeeded , ’ this appeared not a boast , but an understatement . |
| 2 | She was delighted that the coffee was real and that I had used a glass jug on a silver stand , where a nightlight kept it steaming . |
| 3 | It was also agreed that the gallery had been overheated and airless and that I had drunk too much . |
| 4 | I felt so sad but if I had gone there and seen her , how would I have felt ? |
| 5 | I left just a bit less naive than when I 'd started , and a lot more confused ; in the end I fitted neither with the industrious working-class student body ( which was a large proportion ) nor with the socially confident middle class who did less work but had better cultural camouflage to disguise their deficiencies . |
| 6 | In fact since my sister is likely to share half my genes my behaviour is probably only one-half less fit than if I had behaved totally selfishly . |
| 7 | I 'll be fine once once I 've had another five minutes . |
| 8 | My husband says I am calmer and more relaxed and that I have had a much more positive outlook on life ! |
| 9 | Mary says now : ‘ Accessing my past lives has been of great benefit and I 'm sure that if I 'd gone to an ordinary therapist , nothing would have been sorted out . ’ |
| 10 | I 'm sure that if I 'd had this excellent book when learning to windsurf my progress would have been much faster . |
| 11 | The Reds were well on top and I am sure that if I had lasted the game I would have given the selectors something to think about . |
| 12 | Well , you 'll just have to tell them that it 's missing but when I 've paid for a newspaper I expect to get all the pieces that I 've paid for and I 've already paid for mine , so this I 'll take . |
| 13 | Other than that I 've got nothing to do . |
| 14 | I want to be taken seriously , which makes it galling that when I 've got a brain , certain types of men try to treat me like some empty-headed bimbo who … ’ |
| 15 | The dress is very nice but once I 've got it on I realize I 'm just not in the mood for it . |