Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I prefer artwork , although I specialise in fine china and porcelain . |
| 3 | Accordingly , Sir David has requested that I convey to young Reginald the facts of life . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Well then , I 'll take it , ’ he said , ‘ because it 's all I have to prove that I come of good family . |
| 5 | ( The only failures at innovation that I saw in high-tech firms occurred when the manager thought he or she already had so much power that coalition building was unnecessary . ) |
| 6 | Erm , is that okay for that I just have something that I read in New Scientist does everybody take it ? |
| 7 | Quite often , the first clue that I get to old age anxiety is when a mature dog is referred to me with , what appears to be , an ‘ out of character ’ separation anxiety . |
| 8 | He suggested that I write about poor women , and the only way in which I could honestly do that was to go and live among them , and I knew that you and Uncle Orrin would never agree to that . |
| 9 | He knows the representation that I made with other colleagues only a fortnight ago . |
| 10 | God did many things in my life and in the lives of friends that I made in different places . |
| 11 | One of the reasons I managed to improve so quickly was that I practised in flat water with a steady wind . |
| 12 | I think it 's sometimes falsely represented as being academic or being unreal or as not relating to the masses of women 's lives , and it 's out of my own experience I just want to be clear about this , it 's out of my own experience as an incest survivor , as a pornography survivor , my father worked in the porn industry , that I came to revolutionary feminism . |
| 13 | All night ticket collectors came with torches , and they were followed by police who demanded that I put on proper trousers . |
| 14 | So now I always and so I , I 'm thinking that it might be that , that I that erm maybe you know like I used to be anxious about something like that and I used to wake up and the dream used to happen , but now that I 've double checked that I know for sure that , that I 'm safe you know for the night it does n't happen any more by cutting off possibility |
| 15 | I have to say that I know for definite that the force at that time only possessed two shields , er we kept one shield in the South of the county at and one shield North of the county and and hence that is why I went to the headquarters in the morning . |
| 16 | All of the uses that I know of diagnostic computers are involve the doctor talking to the patient , looking at the patient , taking symptoms and then going and using the computer in a similar way that we perhaps might go and ask for an x-ray . |
| 17 | These proposals and many more formed the basis of legislation following the 1987 general election — as too did the model report from Dame Mary Warnock that I commissioned into human fertilization and embryology . |
| 18 | That was not my figure ; it was given by a senior Soviet spokesman at a conference in Vienna that I attended with other Ministers of the Interior at the beginning of this year . |
| 19 | erm I mean it 's interesting the lessons that Queenie learnt — the lesson that I learnt from French local government is that erm the French believe in local government , and they put their money where their mouth is . |
| 20 | Of these , the set that I selected for careful examination within the main projects is the ( pull ) set , which deals with alternation between [ u ] and [ Δ ] in a set of lexical items such as pull , put , foot , shook . |
| 21 | It does n't happen , and students are the poorer because the compounds that I see as old friends are more like enemies to them . |
| 22 | While I would insist on the centrality of Noel Coward 's sexuality to the patterns of meanings that I see in Brief Encounter , I would not wish for one second to hold him up as any kind of gay martyr . |
| 23 | The only matters that I discuss with Irish Ministers in intergovernmental conferences under the Anglo-Irish Agreement are those which can be discussed under the rules of the agreement . |
| 24 | An incident at the fair in 1 920 always caused the family great amusement , although I felt , and still feel , that I acted with great aplomb . |
| 25 | It 's about er ten years ago nearly that I er stopped being a teacher and when I was a teacher er up having to do assemblies er it was always something that I did with great reluctance and er was er pleased if I could get other people to do it er it seems rather odd then er that I 've actually said yes coming to do er an assembly here today and it 's perhaps a sign of mental instability on my part . |
| 26 | I should be just as happy to take the advice that I read in National Westminster Bank 's quarterly review , for instance . |
| 27 | I was so frightened you 'd walk out of my life again that I sank to ignominious depths to keep you close to me . ’ |
| 28 | He will realise the concern that I have for disabled people , who would be hit by such an increase in petrol tax . |
| 29 | I enjoy my conversations with that gentleman as much as I do those that I have with right hon. and hon. Members . |
| 30 | The Minister referred to the figures that I gave on regional assistance . |