Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one of them , where I farmed for 45 years , while my employees who belonged there spoke Gaelic , I also from time to time employed Scots speakers from Alyth , splendid fellows , in whose speech I could recognise classical Scots words which occur in the poetry of the Scottish Chaucerians . |
| 2 | I see the sign saying Welcome to Inverness just as I remember where I left the car and where I left from this morning and just before I turn and stamp to the nearest desk and demand in my highest dudgeon to be taken to Edinburgh on a charted Lear if necessary or limoed immediately to the highest-starred hotel within a reasonable radius for a free overnight dinner , bed and breakfast and unlimited bar tab . |
| 3 | But where I thought of this part of the game as the worst , Ken positively savoured it . |
| 4 | My father was not a rich man , but he was able to send me to Cambridge University , where I studied for three years . |
| 5 | I pulled the door shut and almost ran to the front door and into Langdon Crescent garden , where I stood for five minutes breathing in the fresh air . |
| 6 | However , after being in the ‘ Rena ’ for a week , I became seriously ill with septicaemia and was moved to St. Peter 's Hospital , where I stayed for three weeks . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Erika frowned and tilted her head as if trying to remember and then , cruelly , said , ‘ Oh yes , where I danced with that interesting lad , and with Herman Guttenbruk . ’ |
| 9 | Petri often quoted the older man 's opinion : ‘ He called me his most genuine pupil and tried everything to further me , recommended me to managers and conductors , sent to me all the pupils he did not want to take , and was instrumental in getting me the appointment of Professor of Piano at the Royal College of Manchester , England , where I remained from 1905 to 1911 ’ . |
| 10 | exactly where I stand on this ! |
| 11 | where I stand in another life , |
| 12 | I understood that pantun was a form of Malayan poetry , and could not grasp how this might annihilate anything ; but , as he continued , I began to see — or I thought in that dazed state I saw that he believed all human perceptions to be governed by words and , indeed , distorted and ultimately betrayed by words . |
| 13 | From then on I continually sought quiet , and that although I went from one place to another . |
| 14 | My fear is that I am not likely to serve on the Standing Committee , although I volunteer for such duty if the opportunity be there . |
| 15 | I prefer artwork , although I specialise in fine china and porcelain . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Although I disagreed with some of what he said , I agree that we should consider whether more people can stay in their own homes . |
| 18 | ‘ Although I emigrated in 1965 it must be more than 30 years since Keith and I celebrated our birthdays together , ’ he said . |
| 19 | They have been particularly interested in a fact that I touched upon earlier when discussing the ‘ Ontological Argument ’ , namely that existence is not a quality or attribute of something in the way that being round , or hard , or long-haired is an attribute . |
| 20 | Accordingly , Sir David has requested that I convey to young Reginald the facts of life . ’ |
| 21 | It would be churlish of me not to say how much I welcome that statement , and how much I rejoice in the fact that to add to the four climbdowns that I announced at 4 o'clock , there is a fifth — the abandonment of the proposal announced by the Home Secretary in column 167 of Hansard on 2 July . |
| 22 | In addition , it will be eligible for up to £3.66 million under the urban crime fund initiative that I announced on 26 November . |
| 23 | I knew that I possessed a sidereal compass and that I belonged to another world . |
| 24 | All that can be said for certain is that I respond to all of it — vixen , trees , plants , birds , the lot — but it does not respond to me . ’ |
| 25 | Therefore , it is against that back-cloth , that I respond to these orchestrated criticisms and express my views on the man I have come to know as a friend and a very good colleague . |
| 26 | ‘ Well then , I 'll take it , ’ he said , ‘ because it 's all I have to prove that I come of good family . |
| 27 | It is hard to imagine the effect water can have on the lives of normal everyday people , there were about six or seven houses that I knew of that almost completely wrecked . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I recall the time that I saw on one of the stalls a bone-handled Scout knife and though only a Wolf-Cub , determined to buy one . |
| 30 | Anyway I I bought a little book that I saw in one of the shops and it was er The Industrial Lawyer . |