Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] i " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | But where I go I do n't need them . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is the text , however , where I fear I must fault the guide at times . |
| 7 | In the part of town where I live I see strangers who I would call truly beautiful at least once a day . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I think one of the biggest problems we 've got or I 've I 've had in the last couple of years is that we 've got so many primary schools that we get children from Spring Gardens and Western are now producing national curriculum information for which Marian has got . |
| 10 | Erm I 'm going to or I 've I 've started every time a recording comes in making a note of where it 's from and what type of recording it is , |
| 11 | ‘ Get off me , or I swear I will ! ’ |
| 12 | I want the pair of you dressed and off this train in five minutes — or I swear I 'll drag you off in your pyjamas ! ’ |
| 13 | ‘ We must be true with one another or I fear I shall go quite … ’ |
| 14 | Or I thought I heard these words , for Captain was growling so fiercely , I was n't sure . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Or I mean I think he 's , she 's bitten him before , if he had any sense he 'd leave them at the gate or something , I mean somebody would go for them . |
| 17 | When it was rephrased , ‘ Do you ever find yourself saying , I wish 1 could do this better or I wish I knew more about that ? ’ it was more easily understood . |
| 18 | ‘ Norman Lamont is a good friend of the NHS and I am sure — or I think I am sure — that he will prove it , ’ Mr Clarke said . |
| 19 | The third floor was a no-smoking floor or I think I might have started smoking again after six years ' abstinence . |
| 20 | Yes , why I am asking you or I did I say |
| 21 | or I found I preferred men instead . ’ |
| 22 | Except I think I would like to get out , break away , as it were , and see the world . |
| 23 | But although I said I was reasonably Spartan , this bare Nissen hut and my little windy bivouac pall a bit at times . |
| 24 | Now going back to this handicraft , although I said I really did n't want to be committed to all the meetings , I 'm quite happy to carry on with the handicraft , providing you do n't expect me to turn up at every meeting . |
| 25 | I listened for some sound of other prisoners in the building but although I thought I heard the locking and unlocking of other doors the only voices were those of the guards . |
| 26 | As Heather was not a boy this latter did not really concern us , although I thought I was sure Blessed St John wept with the little one over the circumcision he had , of course , had himself . |
| 27 | Platt , who has yet to make his Italian League debut for Juventus , said : ‘ My nose has been X-rayed and confirmed as broken , although I thought I was fit enough to play today . |
| 28 | Although I thought I did … |
| 29 | I have to say , in comment to that , I do n't the know the the balance of statistics but I 've been a lone parent for , for ten years now , although I 've I 've pressed button , it was because for ten years of being able to have a stable relationship with my children , I 've got two very stable teenagers and during that , the course of that ten years I 've been disabled person as well , so yes there may be the case that there 's there 's trouble with the children of lone parent families , but I think there 's far too much emphasis on that nowadays ! |
| 30 | Such chivalry is rarely met with by such as I , and although I know I should refuse it , for it will put you in debt , I confess I can not . ’ |