Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
| 2 | It 's there where I met him . |
| 3 | The dancer , on her way back to the United States , took Dana in her VW to Lisbon , Porto and Bilbao , where I met them , then we drove all the way to Paris . |
| 4 | She was still sitting where I left her ; that was a good sign . |
| 5 | There it is sitting out on the garden path where I left it . |
| 6 | I read everything I could find about France ( since France was my dream country , where I felt I 'd been meant to be born and grow up … ) and developed a particular passion for the French Revolution , reading all the Scarlet Pimpernel books , the story of the first Madame Tussaud , forced to model the guillotined heads , and everything that I could find that would bring it all to life . |
| 7 | You have n't even enquired about my holiday or where I spent it . ’ |
| 8 | Bozo stares up and down the road and wonders what to do before he finally fixes his bleary gaze where I hoped he would , and trudges away towards the phonebox . |
| 9 | When I saw buildings coming up , I drove the Felder off the track behind an outcrop of rock , where I hoped it was both safe and unobtrusive for the night . |
| 10 | At 5pm that day I went along to Anouska Hempel 's very individual and attractive showroom at 2 Pond Place , Chelsea , where I saw her really lovely couture collection , for which she derived the inspiration from Eastern Europe . |
| 11 | Without waiting for my assent , he pulled writing materials from his cloak , where I saw he had several notebooks . |
| 12 | Cantona being the more obvious example , but I cant remember one sale where I thought we got a decent price . |
| 13 | I decided to rent a room for him in a house near ours , where I thought he would be safe for the moment . |
| 14 | ‘ For six years you have dogged me wherever I went and now you have turned up here , where I thought I had found a safe haven . ’ |
| 15 | And I do n't where I got I gave him quite a good sermon which I thought was y know quite erm to try and help the situation and he said I 'd give them er my conditions . |
| 16 | My flower — the one that I remember best out of many — was gathered where I said it had been . |
| 17 | Then wasps ; a cloud of them hovered around my Virginia creeper where I suspected they had a nest . |
| 18 | I had no such skill , but I was learning , and it was an infinite satisfaction to keep Joanna moving , and going where I wanted her to go , with the sweep . |
| 19 | Knowing this , I was still impotent , for I had nothing to put in its stead , no one to turn to for advice or support , and I had learned for myself nothing of life except that I was bad at living , and that where I loved I met only rejection and disaster . |
| 20 | He had been so badly injured that he was moved to the prison hospital , where I visited him every day . |
| 21 | I 'd be anchored where I reckoned she 'd get a little shelter from the bay in which she lay , but with a gentle south-westerly and no sign of any break in the weather , I was n't worried about her , and took the easiest line ashore . |
| 22 | A few weeks ago we were fortunate enough to meet in a public house where I bought you half a dozen pints and we engaged in a long and fascinating conversation . |
| 23 | But Bob said to me where I bought it from , he said I do n't think it would survive the winter because it comes from the Scilly Isles which is warmer . |
| 24 | The next thing is er on the agenda we 've got the or I thought we had . |
| 25 | Or I thought I heard these words , for Captain was growling so fiercely , I was n't sure . |
| 26 | See my dad likes videos and things like that but he wa he , I know he likes aftershave , he likes that Old Spice and that so I thought well I 'll get him something like that or I thought I sort of saw cos I 'm going shopping Saturday , I 'm trying to get it all Saturday if I can . |
| 27 | Or I thought it was . |
| 28 | Oh customers or I thought you said gostermers |
| 29 | ‘ He was still nice , or I thought he was . |
| 30 | PS JOANNE … could you send me your fax number again if you still need the telegraph thing , the number you gave before is wrong — or I copied it down wrong . |