Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aye that was started afore I mind much about it . |
| 2 | I accept that there has been a steady concentration of power in the hands of large , sophisticated and diversified publishing companies , yet it is still possible for you or me to set up on our own , and publish highly professional and innovative books from our own back bedroom at very little cost . |
| 3 | He knows something about the murder he does n't want you or me to find out about . ’ |
| 4 | You could n't often get big sizes in them & I do n't think they did boys ' sizes in Dr. Martens — when they did , some girls wore them . |
| 5 | I 've forgotten when you said you 're going to Ottawa but if that 's really soon & I do n't hear from you before then , have a great time , I hope the meetings are short & the pints are big ! |
| 6 | ‘ My reasons for so soon destroying my drawings were these ; though I dare say that they do n't appear so rational to any one but myself : I was obliged to limit the work — in order to get more subscribers — & to erase the drawings — because the expense is considerable for keeping them on , & I have pretty great difficulty in paying my monthly charges , — for to pay colourer & printer monthly I am obstinately pre-possessed — since I had rather be at the bottom of the River Thames — than be one week in debt — be it never so small . |
| 7 | But there is one scene where I fall over a sofa , which we added on the day of the shoot . ’ |
| 8 | The organizing theme of the book is distilled in chapter ten , where I delineate exactly why black sportsmen regard themselves as at a possible disadvantage in sport , how they perceive blackness as an impediment and , most crucially , how they react to it . |
| 9 | where I burn off my life without blossoming . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've only got to the end of the year but my family will be carrying on where I left off . |
| 11 | Back to London , pick up where I left off , more crimes and misdemeanours , more Anthony Stewarts and the commonplace killings that proceed from a lifetime of domestic loathing , or lust , or rivalry , or greed . |
| 12 | ‘ The point is — do I want to take up where I left off ? ’ |
| 13 | For me it begins to be noticeable at the railway station where I get off the train each evening , and becomes gradually stronger , like a magnetic field , as I walk up the hill . |
| 14 | Back in the old days , in the Fifties , before the nights of car-park-training , people kept big dogs , with names like Nero and Saladin , Sakkie and Doris ; dogs that roamed the sandy ex-Servicemen 's estate where I grew up , on the edge of Johannesburg , a jumble of sandy streets named after English kings and queens . |
| 15 | Jeffrey : My first sexual encounters were in South Wales , where I grew up . |
| 16 | ‘ Not round where I grew up , they 're not , ’ Cashman said . |
| 17 | Come and see the sorcerer 's kitchen where I brew up the grotesque potions that make me a legend here . ’ |
| 18 | Says Lee : ‘ I have never lost my affection for Manchester City where I spent so many happy years during the club 's successful period , and like so many others I have been disturbed by the events of the last few weeks . ’ |
| 19 | Following this period in the homoeopathic hospital I worked for two years in a professorial immunological unit where I set up studies in allergy to assess the efficacy of homoeopathic remedies in house-dust-mite allergy and hay fever ( allergy to grass pollens ) . |
| 20 | And in the fourth year I tend to do them an evaluation sheet , where I write down lots of questions about the project they have just done , and maybe get them to sit for a double lesson and write about the things they experienced and found out … |
| 21 | A policeman came to call on me that Thursday evening , after Angy 's body had been found , asking what time the class ended and where I went afterwards … that sort of thing . |
| 22 | He was at the Bristol Vic Theatre School where I went too , and we both get on tremendously . ’ |
| 23 | It is compatible with Windows , but if you 've got Windows would you need another system of file management ? and is n't that where I came in ! |
| 24 | Another number , ‘ That Would n't Be You ’ , was replaced by ‘ Is This Where I Wake Up ? ’ , sung by Crawford , Diana Quick and the dancers , who included Suzanne Danielle and Jo-Anne Robinson , who subsequently became the star 's secretary and girlfriend . |
| 25 | ‘ They wanted a dramatic ending where I kill off the central character and they also did n't like me making fun of the audience . |
| 26 | Ah , well , back to that banquet in Hampton Court where I got royally drunk . |
| 27 | A good night out for me would be one where I got home and nobody had played any tricks on me . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | I opened it , and I got my answer , and it set me thinking afresh and seeing clearly where I had formerly been blind . |
| 30 | The water-trough was about twelve yards from the barn door where I had just appeared ; and between the door and the water-trough was a single post . |