Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [pron] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Johnson twice found the hillocky little town lacking — ‘ At night we came to Bamff [ sic ] , where I remember nothing that particularly claimed my attention ’ ; and ‘ Finding nothing to detain us at Bamff , we set out in the morning ’ — he yet managed to write a short exercise in observation of Scottish small borough architecture . |
| 2 | ‘ Possibly because the new ventilation system I 've recently supervised being installed in a factory in one of the Arab Emirates has proved so successful that I have orders for two more , or possibly because I 've just spent four weeks at full stretch in a very hot country with very little relaxation and deserve a holiday — but more probably because I own a majority stockholding in the company I bought cheap and built up to its present eminence , which gives me the position of chairman and managing director and full autonomy in deciding what I do , where I do it and with whom . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You tell me who sent the message , or I hurt you till you do . |
| 4 | I suppose I fancied him although I told myself that it was just that I felt sorry for him . |
| 5 | My self-esteem disappeared and I felt worthless , although I told myself that I was still an attractive woman , that there was no need to feel sexually inadequate . ’ |
| 6 | Mhm mhm , although I take it that we 're in fact |
| 7 | So er you know I I 've I 've never had a sort of er a one way track about politics , although I adore it and I 've er I 've enjoyed it hugely Am enjoying it and I |
| 8 | She would n't take a groom with her although I warned her that the fog might come down later . " |
| 9 | ‘ Salute the Master , Belinda , although I warn you that he will not be your master for long . |
| 10 | I could n't care about the insurance companies , although I love your where I choose . |
| 11 | I have never elsewhere come across the style of this interior , although I recognise it as in a very common tradition . |
| 12 | It was not so much by what Basil said that I remember him but by what he did . |
| 13 | And to think , ’ I say , brushing mud from a faraway marsh off my boots , ‘ that I knew you when your idea of power-dressing was a tool-belt round your hips . ’ |
| 14 | That walk that I 've one That I 've walked it twice , gone right out Glen Baily and right into Glen Shee and down Blackwater , down to the and come along and round in , thirteen mile Maybe twelve or thirteen miles . |
| 15 | Well if you 'd have seen that I mean I and she sleeps in the airing cupboard she 's now started to get in there , but she 's half out on the landing . |
| 16 | so it 's all hot on the plate and served straight away you know , luckily erm I managed it but I got in a little bit of a flap I will admit it whereas Shirl 's now got used to that I mean I when we first came we both used to do our own help each other out I used to help out but erm |
| 17 | All those positions were going for want of an application , so I applied and because brought in people who he knew , certain of them were automatically filled but they want the Chief Administration Officer , so I applied and really I do n't kid myself that I got it because of my qualification because I had n't got any letters after my name . |
| 18 | But what they ca n't stand is that I hate them when they do n't behave in their own way . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's real strange but I do n't feel cheated or that I deserved something and did n't get it ’ . |
| 20 | It was when we had settled down to talk in comfortable armchairs that I told him that the man for whom I had substituted at Marlborough , in the hope of replacing him altogether , now planned to return , so that once more I should be out of a job . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , after the first six or seven freebies things got a little hazy and I understand that I told everyone that Singh and his brothers ( no relation ) were indeed going to build a superstore on ‘ The Tip ’ , but that they were also going to spend £2,000,000 on a new stadium for Athletico to be built on top of Mitchley cemetery . |
| 22 | It 's just that I like him and it 's silly to pretend I do n't for the sake of pride . |
| 23 | I mean part of it is what I think and part of it is that I think that I like it because it works , that these things — I basically am unconvinced much of the modern tradition . |
| 24 | I think it fortunate that I met him as I am persuaded I can cure him of his disorder or turn the evil to good ’ . |
| 25 | But as I say that I recommend them because they were er excellent . |
| 26 | None in the conventional sense that I take it that you mean mark down you mean clearing merchandise |
| 27 | And I want you to think about the question that I ask you but I do n't want you to speak out the answers . |
| 28 | I had been horrified at his scarecrow appearance when I first saw him at the clinic , and when I met him by chance in Tala-Tala I felt so sorry for him that I asked him if he would like to come for dinner . |
| 29 | That I killed her because you were blackmailing me ? |
| 30 | That I pushed it and walked in . |