Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Where I go in my free time is none of your business , you interfering old cow . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It is like a house I dreamed of once , where I wandered through its rooms for an eternity . ’ |
| 3 | If the hon. Member for Oldham , West or I wrote to our local tax inspector and claimed that someone had put a form through our letterbox requiring only our signature for the taxation officer to open up our tax affairs for the past 30 years on the offchance that we might be entitled to something , that would be farcical . |
| 4 | Although I said to my husband when I was pregnant , what if I have a handicapped baby ? |
| 5 | They realise that their route to the Community can be opened only if their countries are practising real democracy in respect of human rights , and multi-party Parliaments — although I said to my Polish friends , ’ You can go a bit too far . ’ |
| 6 | Neither could I conceal that although I wrote to my parents once a week ( a school rule ) they scarcely ever wrote to me , and failed to send me the necessary supplies of toothpaste , stockings , etc. , so that I was always having to borrow from other girls ( strictly against the rules ) and getting into trouble as a result . |
| 7 | But although I wrote in my diary that I wished I were dead , I never seriously considered death — suicide — as a solution to my problems . |
| 8 | That is my advice , although I emphasise to my hon. Friend that I am not a clinician and he does not need to be told that . |
| 9 | I do n't know what he did with his spare time , although I suspect from his conversation that a lot of it was spent in pubs . ’ |
| 10 | Although I called to my father , he took no notice , appearing totally absorbed in his conversation with the white-faced man . |
| 11 | In effect , all my mother 's female paternal kin are called by the same term that I apply to my ‘ mother ’ ; and all her male paternal kin are designated ‘ mother 's brother ’ without reference to their generational position . |
| 12 | If , for example , I call my mother' brother 's son by the same term that I apply to my mother 's brother , the implication is that I share a common relationship with both . |
| 13 | Certain parts of me were defined by the grass that I dented with my feet or the cushion that I hollowed with my back and had an identity both in time and space ; but the breasts and cunt he briefly fondled existed only because touched at his will and through his perception of them . |
| 14 | Lying in bed , looking at the stiff poses in the pictures , I began to want to see the living reality — and the only reality to begin with for me was the singing that I heard through my sickroom window . |
| 15 | She drew the word out , so that I heard in its simple syllable all the pain and hurt of the drug . |
| 16 | ‘ And ‘ t was not for the hand of a child that I wrote to your father a year later . ’ |
| 17 | It was Joan who told me of her death , and it was probably then that I wrote to your father and we started to exchange Christmas cards . |
| 18 | When I refused him , he reluctantly — on the evidence of my bank account — wrote me out permission for four weeks , with the proviso that I return to his office every four weeks … . |
| 19 | Not in the same way that I knew of his brother , who made money in biscuits and owned a gleaming Daimler car which he drove very cautiously over the potholes in the road outside our house . |
| 20 | Then we started , in May , to go to Germany — Munchen Gladbach in the Ruhr area on 11/12 May , Happily it was not the Ruhr that I knew on my second tour , a desperate place to be at then . |
| 21 | The short brown gym tunic with its blue and gold woven girdle that I wore on my first day at Elmwood was a symbol of entry into a new world of lady-like refinement and academic elitism . |
| 22 | My youngest daughter Ella will be two on Sunday — yet it seems like only yesterday that I looked at her pink , scrunched-up face for the first time and fell in love with her funny , quirky personality . |
| 23 | Try to get some er old door casings rip down from me you know , now , I was thinking of going to North Wales but I know what they 'd say cos it , the ones that I got from our Rob 's you know the they 're quite clean but of course they 've had nails in the , you know , the head like I made the cab some cabinets you know . |
| 24 | I mean the feeling that I got from our research was that there are certain things that are absolutely basic to a good relationship between the school and the parent . |
| 25 | Yeah , but that 's all she thought , she , she still did n't realise that after Gavin had gone that I got in me car , come home and seen you , did n't she know ? |
| 26 | So much is now known of the Alpine fold belts , the times and forms of their movements , and so much is now being deduced about the relationship of all this to the theories of plate tectonics , that I marvel at my audacity in saying anything at all at this stage . |
| 27 | It was a performance that I keep in my memory , and am so pleased that MK remembers the playing . |
| 28 | ‘ There 's my boat that I made with my two hands , ’ he said . |
| 29 | ‘ And she has made the same promise to me that I made to my mum and dad . ’ |
| 30 | One of the first things that I noticed in my workplace was that there was an entrenched , hostile division between Black and white colleagues . |