Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeing I played two rounds of golf yesterday … ’ |
| 2 | They invited me to punk parties as noisy as tractor factories , where I swigged flat cans of beer , already shaken with a twist of cigarette butt . |
| 3 | We cascaded down the stairs as the dog decided he could take going downstairs in his stride — and seethed across the station into the sunshine of the great outdoors ; where I observed two large policemen surrounding my estate car , notebooks in hand — and under the obvious impression that they were abut to make an easy collar . |
| 4 | Straight at me where I kneel unbalanced , precariously lodged between joist and board . |
| 5 | Where I keep all my club things at the end there where the medicine thing is . |
| 6 | ‘ When I got there Mr Kordell was with Herbert Chapman and we went into a Lyons tea shop , where I signed amateur for Arsenal . |
| 7 | After sailing all day , I reached a small island , where I slept that night . |
| 8 | I know how good you were because I was at that stage in maths where I felt rudderless and becalmed , drifting helplessly as it were , as my peer group — the rest of the fleet — sailed serenely on towards the horizon . |
| 9 | Presumably it 's also a lot to do with isolation , a lot to do with the fact that there was no one to talk to about the sexual experiences you were having and the only surrounding attitude was one of , ‘ This is something which should n't happen ’ , whereas the situation when I had my first sexual experience was one where I knew other people who were gay whom I could talk to . |
| 10 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 11 | ‘ I was taken to Arrowe Park Hospital where I spent four hours having scans and the doctors said he seemed to be OK . |
| 12 | ‘ Not in Europe , Jane , where I spent ten long years looking for an ideal . |
| 13 | More attractive were the hillier southern regions of Lewis and Harris where I spent most of my spare time rambling and climbing . |
| 14 | But from my point of view what mattered most was that it bordered Abyssinia , where I hoped one day to be posted . |
| 15 | I went down to the execution yard where I saw three corpses . |
| 16 | The prize for winning ‘ New Faces ’ was a trip to Las Vegas and a three-week cabaret stint at the M.G.M. Grand , where I died four times nightly during each 45-minute spot . |
| 17 | The view from this room where I write these last pages is small , but it will serve as an epitome of the gentle unravished English landscape . |
| 18 | STOP THINNING YOUR SHOTS STEVE RICHARDSON IMPROVE YOUR COURSE TACTICS PAUL BROADHURST PITCH IT CLOSE SEVE WHERE I WENT WRONG |
| 19 | Over and over the events of the day I go , vainly searching for where I went wrong … |
| 20 | Perhaps you can guess exactly where I fell that night . |
| 21 | I then went down into the cockpit , where I counted eleven of our best men lying dead . |
| 22 | Prague was the last stadium where I wore conventional running shorts . |
| 23 | One hot after noon I was cycling on a lonely road to a country house where I had two pupils when I heard a plane buzzing rather low over my head . |
| 24 | When I got into Holloway they have them little forms and they 've got pictures of a body with all arrows and everything , and where I had any bruises the doctor put these marks . |
| 25 | When discussing a passage in Dorothy 's German journal , where she states that she ‘ carried Kubla to a fountain in the neighbouring market-place , where I drank some excellent water ’ , one editor allowed himself to speculate upon the existence of a missing manuscript copy of Kubla Khan . |
| 26 | She opened her eyes , smiled down where I stood waist-deep in water still — the smile itself a quick gasp on evening air — then she was upright , running along the jetty to where Edward waited with the towels . |
| 27 | ‘ There was definitely a point in my life where I wanted black kids , ’ says Neneh . |
| 28 | More still are for sale legally over the counter in shops like the Brass Rail on La Brea , the store that sold guns to the Black Panthers in the 1960s and where I watched white and Korean men wearing jeans queuing to buy . |
| 29 | I visited the local teacher 's centre where I discussed this self-evaluation project and other similar projects with the warden . |
| 30 | In the little white house in the almond and lemon country of South-Eastern Spain where I stayed last summer every midday meal started with the tomato and onion salad . |