Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | On another day we went to St. Anne 's where I played on the sands that were not a patch on those of the South Coast . |
2 | ‘ When I asked you earlier where I fitted into the assignment you said that I 'd find out soon enough . |
3 | It is presumably that time which is relevant to the comment which I have n't the heart to repeat here where I refers to the current narrator . |
4 | Turning , then , to the relationship of criminal law and legal theory , I asked what legal theory might contribute to criminal law and I dealt with two central issues ; first , the limits of exposition imposed by the nature of legal rules which , I argue , are essentially incomplete and therefore incapable of a final , exhaustive statement ; and , secondly , the nature of methodological purity , where I argue against a tendency to distort data to fit a favoured critical principle . |
5 | where I squinted through the gap in the serving hatch |
6 | My first real contact with the military was when I went on a familiarisation course to the Parachute Regiment depot at Aldershot when I was fourteen , and spent two days living in the mess , where I looked around the regiment , met serving officers and had some basic interviews with retired Colonels , who were in charge of selecting the future leaders of the toughest regiment in the Army outside of the Special Air Service . |
7 | I basically leave them stock , except for the lead pickup , where I go with a Lace Sensor Super Lead . |
8 | This was , at least , an improvement on an earlier pattern , where I went into the end-game with a lead of about 30 — and then lost on the black . |
9 | Where I came from no one spoke of such things . |
10 | Anyway , back to Le Coq d'Or where I lay on the truckle bed and drifted off to sleep . |
11 | Down the street opposite , Spring Avenue , and towards the car park , where I head for a silver Ford Granada , so that I can pause and hide a mo , to see how the pursuit is going . |
12 | There were points of Government policy where I disagreed with the official line . |
13 | Mark : I ca n't say that to the same extent , but where I live at the moment I know a lot of people within five minutes ' walk and there are ten or fifteen gay people I know who live locally ; there are people I can visit without any great effort whatsoever , whom I 'm likely to meet in the shops . |
14 | I had to go below ground to an office where I spoke to a policeman . |
15 | My next call was to a local Somerset newspaper , where I spoke to a gentleman about the subject of the Chalice Well cover . |
16 | When I tired of writing press releases on new lube concepts I left Wartberg 's valve business to go to the Angstrom Corporation , where I worked on the launch of a new biscuit , the Pink Finger . |
17 | Where I worked in the university , if a woman came in covered in bruises , no one would say anything , although we all knew what had happened . |
18 | Stockley Park near Heathrow is the site of a huge new golf course , where I work from a small mobile office . |
19 | The Men came for me where I huddled in the marram grass and they took me back to the low cage . |
20 | I found the whisky , let myself out of the cellar and locked it , turned all the lights out , gave Mrs McSpadden the bottle , accepted a belated new-year kiss from her , then made my way out through the kitchen and the corridor and the crowded hall where the music sounded loud and people were laughing , and out through the now almost empty entrance hall and down the steps of the castle and down the driveway and down to Gallanach , where I walked along the esplanade — occasionally having to wave or say ‘ Happy New Year ’ to various people I did n't know — until I got to the old railway pier and then the harbour , where I sat on the quayside , legs dangling , drinking my whisky and watching a couple of swans glide on black , still water , to the distant sound of highland jigs coming from the Steam Packet Hotel , and singing and happy-new-year shouts echoing in the streets of the town , and the occasional sniff as my nose watered in sympathy with my eyes . |
21 | I know exactly who I am and where I stand in the world . |
22 | Remember Ma Christie , our Norwegian Pathfinder , who wondered at how his crew just happened to appear as though from some mystique of chance ; how Middleton said in effect " my crew is the best in the Command … leave them be or I return to the Main Force " . |
23 | I have sweet soap here and hot water , and either you wash yourself , all over , or I call in the women to hold you down and scrub you myself . |
24 | ( I am angry over an act of injustice or I wonder at the sight of Niagara Falls or I am pleased with my Christmas present . ) |
25 | well I 'm , I 'm quite happy , never going out , never see the outside world except I go in the ambulance |
26 | Anxious to be seen as having made all the right decisions , she added with a little pride , ‘ There were n't no need for a nurse , 'cause I looked after the mistress myself … stayed up all night when the fever took her … mopped her brow and talked nice and low ‘ til she come through it . |
27 | Although I wrote to the Corporation drawing attention to Captain Roskill 's account of the incident , the letter was neither published nor acknowledged — presumably on the basis that the BBC saw no reason why facts should spoil a good story about a ‘ cover-up ’ . |
28 | Robert Roberts recalls that the Scuttler 's girl friend also had her own style of dress — ‘ clogs and shawl and a skirt with vertical stripes ’ — although I know of no other references to female attire , and as usual within these hooligan preoccupations attention was rootedly fixed on the boys . |
29 | In the case of the latter , the embedded knowledge is well documented in the formal requirements and specifications of computer programs , although I know of no active programs to preserve this information . |
30 | Although I insisted to the referee that the goal should stand because I had sent Pahdra on as substitute , the ref was not fooled , especially as Mr Singh was still wearing his dufflecoat and brogues . |