Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Where I come from there is always a war going on somewhere or other .
2 And although I knew by then that I was wretchedly unhappy in comparison with other girls of my age , this was still what I wanted to do , because however joyless and painful the present might be , the future could have been even worse .
3 It was while filming at this den that I heard of yet another place , only a few miles up the Wye , where mink had been seen killing mallard chicks .
4 Well , you 've had all you 're getting , my sweet little stepsister , and that 's the reason I 'm here today — to assure you that I intend to finally put an end to your grubby manoeuvres to extract money from my family ! ’
5 That we could not condone , and Gill Davies insisted that I go over there [ to the interviews ] and make the point , which I did very forcibly I thought .
6 And you could easy sit in there and in this big place that I speak about there was two sways
7 An excellent overview of organisational communication research written specifically with reference to the external organisational environment appears in a valuable compendium Handbook of organizational communication — a volume that in this context I am not ashamed to admit that I came across just by chance in a bookshop whilst looking for something completely different !
8 ‘ How dare you imply that I … that I came in here with him to …
9 I was going to , one of the , the many things that I went to away last meeting with was , was the idea of , that I 've missed it this time for Playback is a list , a listings kind of mechanism , so obviously this is the first one
10 Yes it 's the s same school in West Ham that I went to too
11 ‘ I do n't know that I approve of quite so much black silk leg on view , but otherwise you look wonderful . ’
12 Feeling pleased that I had at least negotiated the day 's essentials , and the afternoon being well advanced , I thought it would be good to have a more leisurely look round Wenceslas Square and find somewhere to eat .
13 I reckoned that I had at least one brigade of white cells on the start line with other brigades available as required .
14 that I had in there ?
15 I can honestly say that I feel at least equal to them , often above them ; and I do n't enter any relations with them that are n't on my terms .
16 But Mr Tebbit told Mr Hurd : ‘ I regret having to say that I disagreed with almost everything he ( Mr Hurd ) said and agreed with almost everything the Right Hon gentleman said from the Opposition front bench . ’
17 I had my daughter treated under an assumed name until she was five , to try and prevent the press from finding out things about her , and they have the secret name that I used for here in here .
18 A navy blue skirt , that white top and that nice jumper that I bought in here , cardigan will look really nice when I go out with Mr and
19 It is this typological point that I would like to consider now , bearing in mind the question of historical divergence and convergence that I referred to above .
20 This is what happens in the cases of textbook transmission that I referred to earlier : the teacher is required only to put into operation ideas which have already been realized as materials and is given no guidance in the evaluation of the validity of the principles on which the materials have been designed even when these principles are clear to the textbook writers themselves .
21 It is with some reluctance that I have to strongly disagree with one of my fellow presidents , but some of the impressions that her article creates are very misleading and , in some cases , offensive .
22 There 's a picture that I obtained from actually Ruth who was who was a Miss .
23 ‘ Smee ? ’ whispered a voice that I recognized at once .
24 Testing is the same sort of thing but this brings out the different functions that I talked about either summations or or products .
25 I 'm supposed to be resting , but after I 'd had forty winks , I felt a lot better , so I toddled over here .
26 The front door was still locked and bolted — I 'd only used the back one since I 'd got here — and the keys were out the back , so I came in here to open these french windows .
27 There 's a sort of side bit with all these trolleys in , so I go in there .
28 There was a doorway on one side , so I got in there .
29 The cover of the directive features a cricketer in full protective kit , so I knew at once I had better find out what it was all about .
30 Aunt Bedelia had the bedroom underneath and I did n't want her knocking on the ceiling with a broom handle so I decided for once to put up with his snoring and deep breathing exercises .
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