Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] i [verb] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 It is a good tournament , a good field and a course where I have won before . ’
2 Then I was promoted to assistant cashier at the Wandsworth branch where I had to deal with the toll accounts to go to head office as well as the share accounts and the dividends .
3 We are standing in that kitchen where I 've shared her meals and laughter , and she finishes drying the glass and places it carefully on the table .
4 None of the women in the school kitchen where I worked went to union meetings .
5 The person on duty disappeared out the back and I went to sit in the same seat where I had sat the night before .
6 To be frank with you , I 've never found a space in a lead break where I 've felt like using a whammy move . ’
7 She said they 've all come to work oh I 've won a prize I 've got a car or I 've won this that and the other .
8 ‘ I have made up my own mind where I want to go and I spoke to Frank Clark this morning the first time for a fortnight .
9 Sometimes I go out and pick up strange men in clubs because that seems to fit the self-image that I 've adopted — I do n't know if that makes sense .
10 My whole understanding of the human world requires that in thought and imagination I am constantly shifting between and responding from different viewpoints , here or there , remembered or anticipated , individual or collective , my own or someone else 's , hypothetical , fictional , or simply indefinite ; it is only in action that I have to settle in a present viewpoint , whether personal ( ‘ I ’ ) or social ( ‘ We ’ ) .
11 Therefore , Patterson was a bigger wig than I 'd had him down as .
12 I 'll be all sweet penitence and grief that I 've dared set my will against his .
13 A couple of funny looks later and I realised I also had to head off the perception that I wanted to hire a sex cave for outré rumpy pumpy with a slew of bimbo victims .
14 The half-dozen letters from Summerchild that I have found scattered through the porridge oats box seem to be replies to letters from Serafin , but not one of Serafin 's letters has yet come to light .
15 The guidance that I have referred to is , as it says , guidance to the court and to practitioners in every discipline , but it is authoritative guidance and valuable guidance which family proceedings courts should make clear that they have had regard to when they are arriving at or announcing their decision .
16 That 's , that 's true , eh , I mean the alloy in the other ones have to be quite crafty when you get up to twenty two carat for example and eh , very eh , eh , large chunk of gold in it , and it can indeed be very soft , but then you see that 's an eighteen carat ring that I 've had for , worn , all the time for twenty four years
17 The last component of the rainbow coalition that I want to refer to is feminism .
18 I mean I I went in there yesterday , I think it was , or this morning erm he put wet shirts into the wardrobe admittedly with the doors open but that bedroom is not a bedroom that I like to get any dampness in at all , Brenda .
19 Yet it was as though that night , in the moonlight , in the silence , as though even the work , the months of steady labour , had only been an illusion , only the dream of work , the dream of progress , and I had not even begun and never would begin , though at different moments in my life I might have had the illusion that I had begun and even , perhaps , finished .
20 It was whilst working my way through this , often writing in the column headings for several pages in advance to give myself the illusion that I had completed more than I actually had , that two important suspicions that had lain dormant for some time rose up and took on the aspect of horribly credible hypotheses .
21 The difference that emerges is that whereas Labov 's statement is based on speaker-agreement within the dimension of social class ( and hence derivative from the ‘ shared value ’ hypothesis of stratificational class theory , on which see chapter 7 ) , the characterization that I have built up thus far is based on the variables of age , sex , area and network , within a single social class , and without reliance on a prior model or theory of social class .
22 The hon. Gentleman made a totally false comparison before he made the totally false allegation that I had misled the House .
23 Food was short and for two days I was kept running round trying to buy up supplies , with the result that I had to retire to bed with blistered feet .
24 This training procedure evidently generates context-specific latent inhibition , a result that I have interpreted as implying that the effects of exposure to the CS are less likely to interfere with new learning when the context is changed .
25 In the present instance however , ( the poems of a certain Mrs. Leapor excepted , who published some 40 years ago ) I discern , I think , more marks of a true poetical talent than I remember to have observed in the verses of any , whether male or female , so disadvantageously circumstanced .
26 That photograph that I 've got where it 's all snowy 's his house and we lived just opposite .
27 It would be interesting to hear just how much of the programme that I have outlined the Government support , those aspects of it that they do not , and why .
28 I was pleased with this reflection , and so convoluted is the human mind that I ceased to take pride in my lack of pride and was proud that I had found myself capable of it .
29 It was with this old — and , to my mind , unresolved — dispute at the back of my mind that I came to write ‘ Hylas Fights Back ’ .
30 And not because you 've a foolish wee fancy in your mind that I require cosseting ? ’
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