Example sentences of "[conj] i [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One leads up an unfrequented glen occupied by wild goats and skirts the northern flank of Beinn Fhada to arrive at a rough bealach or col , where I once shivered for two hours waiting for the mist to lift off Sgurr nan Ceathreamhnan ahead , which it did not . |
| 2 | I 'll never forget the cellar of a little pub where I once stood for 10 agonizing minutes — ( it seemed like a century ) — with three of my friends , facing four of the meanest-looking characters I had ever met . |
| 3 | ‘ I have to eat about five times a day , or I just stop in my tracks . ’ |
| 4 | or I just wait till the mix . |
| 5 | And I just have to go to or I just have to sort of explain that when you pack a van , you do n't pack it like the advert for KitKat . |
| 6 | I am glad to have the chance of following the hon. Member for Honiton ( Sir P. Emery ) , the Chairman of the Procedure Select Committee , although I strongly disagree with his suggestions , for reasons that I have given before and hope to repeat this evening . |
| 7 | Although I partly agree with Jacqueline Prelimo that photographs represent an attempt to possess the moment by turning it into something tangible ( Letters NI 185 ) , I have some reservations . |
| 8 | Although I regularly travel through it , this will be in a professional capacity . |
| 9 | Although I duly applied for the Fellowship , I was unsuccessful , no doubt to my lasting benefit , as similar failures have served to prove . |
| 10 | I knew that I wanted a free and independent life although I secretly subscribed to the idea of marrying a professional , sighted man . |
| 11 | Although I generally agree with this statement , the continued denial of risk for patients exposed to HIV-infected HCWs without scientific data does not reassure the population . |
| 12 | Fiercely private , he will only talk about 39-year-old Frances in professional terms but affection for her sneaks through : ‘ I actually met her through work , although I never worked with her directly until now , ’ he says . |
| 13 | And there was a satisfaction about it although I always think in those days we had to work so fast that there was n't the time to do what you 'd really like to have done for the patients . |
| 14 | Although I still suffer from headaches , it takes a lot more physical and mental stress before it manifests . |
| 15 | In one way the length of the history was a good thing as I have benefited in the end from the latest surgical techniques available in London , and although I still have to be careful it has made a tremendous difference to my life . |
| 16 | Now , on erm the er insurance er the , the pensions and life side then that 's my particular area , and obviously I 'm based in Birmingham for that , although I actually live in Derby . |
| 17 | The request that you have done me the honour to make , to receive the record of my voice , is one that I cheerfully comply with so far as lies in my power ; though I lament to say that the voice which I transmit to you is only the relic of an organ the employment of which has been overstrained . |
| 18 | Nothing that I later ate in a restaurant was as good as our dinner , the finale being a ‘ tender coconut ’ pudding , a dish I had never eaten anywhere in the tropics . |
| 19 | He used some such expression in the text of an unpublished essay that I later found at Harvard . |
| 20 | I had just winched in the staysail 's port sheet when the explosion sounded , or something so like an explosion that I instinctively cowered by Wavebreaker 's rail as my mind whipped back to the crash of practice shells ripping through the sleet in Norway . |
| 21 | Er so what I did was something a bit simpler than that I just went through the memorandum and and ticked off what I regarded as restrictive statements as against positive ones . |
| 22 | But the important thing was that I just wanted to be free . ’ |
| 23 | No , I do n't want to do that I just said to her , I said you know , you can sort of erm ask Brenda she said I 'm doing that I 'm not on christmas day , would you ? |
| 24 | The things I said may have been unjustified , and the fact that I just happened to be bloody tired and bad-tempered was no excuse . |
| 25 | This is my do it yourself manual , that I just learned by trial and error . |
| 26 | I was so astonished by the sudden question that I just gaped at him . |
| 27 | This seemed to me a poor reason for making the announcement and I told him that I strongly disapproved of his breach of trust . |
| 28 | The rod that I eventually settled with was made from an AFTM 10 reservoir fly rod blank , after an interesting morning inspecting blanks at the Horizon factory at Redditch . |
| 29 | There is a misunderstanding abroad that I also suffer from this unpleasant ailment . |
| 30 | Now the relevant point about briefing this is a you 've mentioned Glasgow and Birmingham that I already knew about , that we 're tendering against . |