Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [pron] " 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 | Othe possibilities include Brian Robson ( experienced international ) Ray Wilkins ( experienced & I think he 'd be pretty good ) . |
| 3 | And a call came over the radio that there was a problem with one of the pumps downstairs , so seeing I had nothing better to do at that time I went downstairs to give them a hand . |
| 4 | It 's there where I met him . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A couple of blocks away is John Smiths , where I met my old friend Robert Clow , in company with his number two , Willie Anderson , current treasurer of the BA . |
| 7 | She was still sitting where I left her ; that was a good sign . |
| 8 | There it is sitting out on the garden path where I left it . |
| 9 | And she had opened my locked drawer where I keep my private papers , but I 'm not going to mention that . |
| 10 | ‘ On Lee Beach there 's a safe anchorage where I keep my old fishing boat , ’ said her host . |
| 11 | I finished my list of demands and took it to the Branch Office , where I received something of a hero 's welcome . |
| 12 | The granny table where I ate my toast was now a cocktail cabinet , with studded plastic , three high stools , a Manhattan skyline of siphons and shakers . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | You have n't even enquired about my holiday or where I spent it . ’ |
| 15 | in the empty market-place , where I imagine myself |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ E's my brother an' where I go 'e goes , ’ I replied defiantly . |
| 19 | But where I go I do n't need them . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Without waiting for my assent , he pulled writing materials from his cloak , where I saw he had several notebooks . |
| 22 | I lay there in the Bomb Circle where I killed her other son , and I hoped that she was dead , too . |
| 23 | Today , the pheasant survives only in the southern part of my province , Ha Tinh , where I hope we can create a special reserve to protect it from hunters and ultimate extinction . |
| 24 | ‘ Where I hope he will reflect on the unwisdom of employing his charm and duplicity on a woman as sharp as I. ’ |
| 25 | Although Johnson twice found the hillocky little town lacking — ‘ At night we came to Bamff [ sic ] , where I remember nothing that particularly claimed my attention ’ ; and ‘ Finding nothing to detain us at Bamff , we set out in the morning ’ — he yet managed to write a short exercise in observation of Scottish small borough architecture . |
| 26 | I dried off the needle and dropped it into the metal box where I carried my suture materials , scalpels and blades . |
| 27 | Where I made my mistake was in not checking back with his number in Freiburg at the edge of the Black Forest . |
| 28 | Cantona being the more obvious example , but I cant remember one sale where I thought we got a decent price . |
| 29 | I decided to rent a room for him in a house near ours , where I thought he would be safe for the moment . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . ’ |