Example sentences of "[conj] [subord] i [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | or cos I only speak |
2 | But , if you ever cause any more trouble , in any way to my family , or if I ever see you near our house , then I swear I 'll kill you both . |
3 | Or if I really have n't . |
4 | Well I suppose it must of been me but I have no idea when or why or where because I generally cut the erm side bits off . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | It should be clear from the previous chapters that although I still had some sense of personal identity when I became anorexic , I simply did not have the opportunity or know-how to form an Eriksonian ego identity . |
7 | ‘ The problems of distribution and the various changes that we had to make to establish ourselves in Scotland made me think that if I just swung the compass I 'd land up in Paris . ’ |
8 | I thought that if I never tried it on my own , I would always wonder whether I could . ’ |
9 | ‘ I am concerned that if I now have to respond fully to that part of the plaintiffs ' order of 5 June dealing with the various alleged payments my position vis-à-vis the police investigation may well be prejudiced . |
10 | I know that if I suddenly start feeling pains anywhere in my body , I do n't have to worry that it is the side effects of drugs , as , regrettably , some athletes do . |
11 | I have the impression of an ideal painting in my head , and I always think to myself that if I ever painted it then I would just stop . |
12 | The proctologist handed me three envelopes , one addressed to each of us , then told me that if I ever had piles I could rely on him to cut them out for cost . |
13 | " I hope , " sand Enid , " that if I ever wear mourning , I shall not be so showy . |
14 | I 've been thinking that if I ever meet the kind of young lady who 'd make you a nice wife , I 'll get her to come round and introduce 'erself . ’ |
15 | One thing that I did tell her was that if I ever got arrested she would not be involved . |
16 | I swore to my mother , when she was dying , that if I ever found my half-brother , I would do him all the harm I could . |
17 | I know it sounds stupid , but it , like , made me feel better than if I just smoked a joint with it . |
18 | But if we now recall the alternative definition of democracy as popular power , or popular sovereignty , then it becomes clear that it can not be a democratic act for the people to vote away their own power and their own rights ; any more than if I freely renounce my freedom I can remain free because the renunciation was a free act . |
19 | I can say that because I now belong to them both . |
20 | Fear that when I finally go in and face it , ready to start , the old revulsion will rise up in me again . |
21 | I could n't have been more pleased by his decision , and told Granpa that when I finally took over the barrow we would n't even have to change the name . |
22 | I had always imagined that when I finally lost my virginity , it would be for the same reason I smoked and drank , because it would have seemed unsophisticated not to . |
23 | Is the Minister aware that when I recently addressed a meeting of the Ayr , Renfrew and Bute Black-Faced Sheep Breeders Association not only was I extremely well received but much concern was expressed about the position of sheep rearers in the area ? |
24 | This reflects itself in the fact that when I actually make a measurement I shall find the electron sometimes here and sometimes over there . |
25 | I used pure watercolour at the beginning and although I loved its luminosity , I found that as I usually paint in short stabs rather than broad washes , the thinking time that pure watercolour demands was not ideal for me . |
26 | I went to this game and although I probably do n't deserve to get a ticket I will probably take the opportunity . |
27 | And although I infinitely preferred a walk across the corner of the field to the privy by the duck pond , to the four flights of stairs I had to descend at Reine , with a com-munal Turkish crouch at the end of it , I wondered how Otto would adjust to outside facilities . |
28 | My best friends used to twang my bra straps in front of the boys , and although I always laughed , I felt humiliated . |
29 | George MacKerracher was a character in himself , and although I always suspected that he made up most of his stories , he told them with such sincerity and verve that they were quite believable . |
30 | There were no A-levels or 0-levels and although I once got a hearty handshake for my English book from a kindly Mr. Pickering at Abbeydale School , I seemed to get the cane for almost everything else . |