Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Where I go in my free time is none of your business , you interfering old cow . ’ |
| 2 | I feel it is necessary to state my own interest : I am a retired mechanical engineer , at one time employed by a major international oil company where I specialised in research on fuel and lubricants for internal combustion engines . |
| 3 | Where I worked in the university , if a woman came in covered in bruises , no one would say anything , although we all knew what had happened . |
| 4 | In fact , they whisked me off to the Nanking Workers ' Hospital , where I stayed in ‘ solitary confinement ’ until this afternoon . |
| 5 | The Men came for me where I huddled in the marram grass and they took me back to the low cage . |
| 6 | They were still talking when I continued on my way back to my roomette where I sat in comfortable privacy for a while reading the timetable and also reflecting that although I still had no answers to the old questions , I now had a whole crop of new ones , the most urgent being whether or not Filmer had already known the Youngs were friends of Ezra Gideon . |
| 7 | I know exactly who I am and where I stand in the world . |
| 8 | where I stand in another life , |
| 9 | I mean I had nothing at all to do with t' business except I went in partnership with me wife and that . |
| 10 | well I 'm , I 'm quite happy , never going out , never see the outside world except I go in the ambulance |
| 11 | But although I wrote in my diary that I wished I were dead , I never seriously considered death — suicide — as a solution to my problems . |
| 12 | I knew the ones she meant ; she meant the square transparent boiled sweets which when she was a child would have been weighed out in pennyworths from a tall glass jar , but although I searched in grocers ’ shops and sweet shops high and low , all I could find were wrapped oval-shaped acid drops . |
| 13 | I prefer artwork , although I specialise in fine china and porcelain . |
| 14 | Although I concentrate in this chapter on sexual difference and on cultural and racial differences in the last chapter , it is worth remembering that in some contexts they interrelate . |
| 15 | HAVING watched almost every game in the World Cup , firstly in my Irish colours , and then in my Scottish colours ( although I live in Dublin , my mother was Scottish ! ) |
| 16 | Although I slipped in the odd prop or two , and tried to bend briefs towards my interests , on the whole I felt I watched from the sidelines as the plethora of ecology and natural history books of the 1980s appeared . |
| 17 | ‘ Although I emigrated in 1965 it must be more than 30 years since Keith and I celebrated our birthdays together , ’ he said . |
| 18 | ( So much so that , although I believe in God , my great difficulty is accepting that he believes in us ! ) |
| 19 | Although I suggested in the last chapter that it was easier for Brian Way than for Peter Slade to challenge the formal drama traditions within the schools , it could not be said that either of them had very much impact on what drama meant and still means to interested people outside our educational institutions . |
| 20 | The scene of life , Bransby ’ , continued he , ‘ is drawing to a close : although my career has been a most happy one , I feel much less regret than I expected in leaving it , for I have full confidence in the mercy of God . ’ |
| 21 | Remember , these are rest days in your training , so you can always do less than I recommend in the specific schedules . |
| 22 | ‘ The players seemed to have much less belief in themselves than I had in them . |
| 23 | His interest and concern calmed me and sitting in his study at the back of the church I felt more at peace than I had in a long time . |
| 24 | He has words of praise for the RSNO Chorus , which he says has ‘ sounded better than I remember in a long time ’ in the initial rehearsals of a work new to all concerned . |
| 25 | ‘ For your information , I do n't believe in double standards for men — any more than I believe in them for women . |
| 26 | In later chapters , then , I hope that I will display a more ecumenical perspective than I manage in this one ! |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't belong in his life , any more than I belong in yours or in anybody 's . |
| 28 | I learned more about coaching sprinters by reading this book than I have in the past 30 years in the sport . |
| 29 | I think I 've been up and down to the Big Smoke more times since Christmas than I have in the past two years — and the jaunt next weekend — at long last Mark & I have managed to use a Boots free train ticket voucher — two of us for £45.55 — Baaargain ! |
| 30 | ‘ Better than I have in a long time . ’ |