Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Gentlemen for your deliberations to be useful they must be free — your opinions must not be shackled by authorities ; & I know that were I present your candor and delicacy towards me would be such , as to prevent that freedom of discussion and investigation , which is absolutely necessary to obtain a knowledge of facts . |
| 2 | We sat on our stools and I smiled at him , thinking he was going to ask me about my dress or where I lived or something , and he said , ‘ Who 's your favourite philosopher ? ’ |
| 3 | Mallards , coots and moorhens could often be seen and heard waddling about the housing estate where I lived or sometimes even boldly marching up the high street . |
| 4 | Where I lived and that ? |
| 5 | On the minus side , they knew what I looked like , where I lived and what I drove . |
| 6 | Only after 1 February can I go more or less where I please and then there is a need to work quite quickly since the ferreting season ends in April when the fast-growing vegetation and the increasing arrival of litters of young rabbits make it impractical to continue . |
| 7 | I used to go along to Greenbank Hospital 's geriatric wards , where I sang and played to the old folk . |
| 8 | In the end I decided it did n't matter much where I went as long as it was up . |
| 9 | ‘ I once gave a speech where I said that most of recorded music was like stuffed birds in a cage , that do n't sing . |
| 10 | What is more , the journey via New York and Los Angeles included a first leg of the marathon journey on a British Airways Concorde , where I enjoyed that extraordinary experience of arriving in Manhattan — thanks to the five hours time difference — more than an hour before the 10.30 am departure time from Heathrow . |
| 11 | FALL-OUT at Credit Lyonnais Laing , where I hear that 12 staff from UK research , equity sales , dealing and settlements were bid farewell a week ago . |
| 12 | It 's quiet where I live but they 're , they 're nosy . |
| 13 | There 's a junkshop near where I live that sells TVs , videos , air rifles , fishing rods , car radios , outdated hi-fis , cheap guitars and all the general paraphernalia of unfortunate people 's overdrawn lives . |
| 14 | There are various likely barns near where I live where she might seek shelter , and I 've always managed to lure her back with food . |
| 15 | You may think Loxford light years behind Woodborough , but it is my patch , where I live and work , however anachronistic . |
| 16 | So it was indeed a classic nightmare where I dreamt that I was the only person searching for the child , and the only person who saw that this vast Argosy was down near the coastline , and I landed in a most difficult position near the aircraft and found nobody else about . |
| 17 | I went along to the dining car where I found that Zak had already positioned some of the actors at the tables for the cocktail-hour double-length scene . |
| 18 | I read through my brother 's Readers Digest , where I learned that Stalin was a bad name . |
| 19 | Following the path with my thoughts wallowing in nostalgia , I soon found myself back where I started and crashing into the people I had heard through the mist . |
| 20 | But I am determined to fight back , and where I think that they 've gone over the top , I 'll take them to court . |
| 21 | Her battered , motley-panelled 2CV had looked out of place in Ascot Square , where I think that anything less than a two-year old Golf GTi , Peugeot 209 or Renault 5 was considered to be only just above banger status , even as a third car , let alone a second . |
| 22 | I made my way to an hotel lounge in the Diamond , where I sat and read a leaflet I had picked up in the church . |
| 23 | We parked near the boathouse on the west shore , a ruined , mud-filled RAF building , where I pushed and heaved my three companions afloat , waving a cheerful farewell . |
| 24 | I see myself as one of these animals , and I await with resignation but with confidence the moment when either I live out my life as providence decrees or I die as prescribed , convinced that I shall thus be useful in two ways , first to France and then to humanity . |
| 25 | And that 's when I felt that I wished I had of went for a career in the trade union or I felt that had I done that , I would have been satisfying something that was there . |
| 26 | and therefore if you 're gon na er introduce this radical land reform straight away , I mean say there is no landlord but there 's a peasant , or I mean unless the Party 's ac completely active |
| 27 | bit here and I thought god that so I thought right I 'm gon na change places in that seat but your father 's sitting on , alright , I said go in that back seat , just behind us there were there or I said or I 'm just coming to sit where you are , I said I ca n't do four hours sitting like this , I mean I 'd have been boss eyed before I got , well I was I , I , all say look at that cloud |
| 28 | So I either have it in the kitchen or I go and I say to them do you want a cup of tea ? |
| 29 | ‘ What can Willie Millar try to spring that I wo n't be aware of , or I try that he wo n't have seen ? |
| 30 | I did a dreadful thing , the worst thing of my life , when I was twelve and a half years old , or I feel that I did , and nothing can change it … ’ |