Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 If the hon. Member for Oldham , West or I wrote to our local tax inspector and claimed that someone had put a form through our letterbox requiring only our signature for the taxation officer to open up our tax affairs for the past 30 years on the offchance that we might be entitled to something , that would be farcical .
2 An action was instituted — the only libel action where I acted for Harold Wilson which came to court — and I thought it wise to brief a member of the Opposition to act as counsel on his behalf .
3 It read : ‘ I ask you to consider that the effects of the legal action that I undertook in the Berne district court concerning my non-participation in the European Cup this year are null and void .
4 He was always grateful for ‘ the healthy and restorative force that I see in the country . ’
5 He describes , as I did , the lack of access between the interiors of modules , but accepts the view of consciousness that I associated with Minsky 's views on heterarchy : that , roughly speaking , sometimes one module would be conscious and sometimes another , depending on circumstances :
6 ‘ And these stones — so unexpected in this magnificent country — because I confess it is not for the pleasures of civilisation that I came to this district but for the informing breadth and spectacles of Nature — reminded me of somewhere I knew not where and that was my over-selfish study which all but ended in a brute collision with yourselves ! ’
7 This requires answering a basic check question : What is the single most important result that I want from this presentation ?
8 It does n't happen , and students are the poorer because the compounds that I see as old friends are more like enemies to them .
9 Of course , over the years we 've campaigned , as I was telling someone only yesterday in another club that I go to at the church , that I said you know we , the Co-op Womens ' Guild , were helping to put water into Africa before any of this Band-aid and Live-aid was thought about .
10 ‘ I got much more out of the car than I did in Kyalami and I did not make any mistakes .
11 Indeed one of the great worries that I have about life in general is the lack of growth which so may of our admirable people , particularly those who have not achieved educational qualifications , actually manage during their working lives .
12 In addition to the processes just described , repeated presentation of a stimulus also brings about those changes responsible for habituation that I discussed in Chapter 2 — changes that were characterized as resulting in the formation of a representation of the stimulus .
13 It was in that frame of mind that I moved into the Olympic year indoor season , saying , as I had been doing for a long time , ‘ In ‘ 88 , I 'll graduate ! ’
14 I 'm thinking : I 'm not wearing this , or I 'm not wearing that , my leg shows in that ; but it 's funny , it 's only really at parties that I worry about things like that .
15 I needed some comfort after the election result so I turned to it for some like-minded thought .
16 It was only after extensive reading through the writings of many authors that I came across the work which undoubtedly gave the author this particular inspiration .
17 Now the fella that I worked with was the president of the union from the branch .
18 you know is there somewhere that I can get the subjects that I need in , in each
19 ‘ I do n't recall giving any indication that I wanted to . ’
20 There has been no other attempt that I know of to theorise dance and its particular appeal for girls .
21 It was by chance and with the support of a visiting teacher of drawing who also happened to be a lecturer at Goldsmiths College that I succeeded in getting a place at art school , the first and last totally blind student to have ever done so in Britain .
22 ‘ There 's my boat that I made with my two hands , ’ he said .
23 The section of B R that I work for
24 It was this burning ambition that I took with me into 1986 .
25 The woman from Ty Fach has found the pictures that I made on the rock , and the little woman with her has looked at them .
26 They were things that you took to enhance your experience and to make it more intense — to make your personal development became part of your life , It was a very high-minded approach and when one looks at what has happened to the drug scene today and one looks back to the prevailing attitudes at the time , one can see the absolute , total abhorrence among drug takers that I knew in those days of amphetamines , heroin , barbiturates , mandrax — all those things that had an adverse physical effect which were considered to by highly dangerous to one 's personal development and to one 's daily living .
27 It was while filming at this den that I heard of yet another place , only a few miles up the Wye , where mink had been seen killing mallard chicks .
28 now if when I come back erm the the er the idea that erm the recommendation that I put before you , if this solves that particular need
29 This was a sparrow that I found on the day it was born .
30 In effect , all my mother 's female paternal kin are called by the same term that I apply to my ‘ mother ’ ; and all her male paternal kin are designated ‘ mother 's brother ’ without reference to their generational position .
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