Example sentences of "[subord] [conj] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I said well you know , I ca n't just wind it up over the next six months , I said er what I wan na do I said is erm I got ta carry it on for that transit for that Orion till I finished anyway so it 's got ta go another year so I said well what I 'm feeling about doing I said is er just sort of keeping a finger in the pie I said , he said , if I 'd said tomorrow , if I had finished the whole the tomorrow I 've got ta buy a car I can buy it finance so I 'm gon na get no tax relief on the H P I get no depreciation no nothing like that I said so at least if I still self employed I can if I have the sort of two or three vehicles or whatever three , four , five vehicles but I said at least I can have some erm and I can then sort of they would be more utilised , where as I said at the moment we got more vehicles than we really need to keep full capacity so he said yeah , yeah fair enough then . |
| 2 | Except that I had in some way to justify myself . |
| 3 | Except that I hope to God they let Sam go . ’ |
| 4 | For half a second you might have thought his fist had smashed me across the room , except that I follow through my dive into a roll and end up squatting on the floor , eight feet away , with the pistol pointing straight at his guts . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't think I have much else to prove … other than that I want to be the best player in the world . |
| 6 | No erm it 's , it 's more recent than that I think in nineteen fifty the election was on a Tuesday . |
| 7 | I must admit the Hockin style was inclined to be more racy than that I used for the Gazette . |
| 8 | and this kind of thing it 's getting er I just think I 'm going to end up more confused by trying to do it all at once than if I concentrate on one thing at a time . |
| 9 | If I jump with surprise when a dog suddenly barks at me , my behaviour is no less expressive than if I shout at it to shut up . |
| 10 | I know it 's risky — a lot more risky than if I waited for Yukio to finish programming the starpod — but I just need to get away for a while , by myself , and think . |
| 11 | My aim was to secure a good head of each species and , in consequence , except when I shot for meat , I shot selectively and seldom . |
| 12 | Sometimes I braved the elements and went out to the garage and thought about a hosepipe on the exhaust of the car , but I was never brave enough to face real oblivion , although when I went to bed at night , I used to refer to it as slipping into oblivion . |
| 13 | Happiness , I knew , was not something she thought much of as an end : it was as if she had said , I 'm glad you do n't mind being poor , and , although when I replied to her , it was only to tell her about the baby , Thomas , and how he had put on five pounds and had cut his first tooth , I brooded over what I might have said while I stood at the sink or pushed the pram , making great , windy speeches in my mind , venting on my absent aunt the curious , unreasonable anger that seemed to rise up before me like a dark pit , bottomless and frightening . |
| 14 | I 've been working in Cleveland , US for 4 months now , and am amazed that I get more up to date information on the week 's activities than when I lived outside London ! |
| 15 | ‘ I am a poorer man by some 200 £ than when I came to the Province ’ , he told Gould , apologising for his inability to pay his subscription to Birds of Australia , ‘ and my salary has been reduced to the lowest figure and is far below what I enjoyed as a private Gentleman . ’ |
| 16 | I must say when I got up this morning I did n't feel much better than when I went to bed last night but there we are . |
| 17 | In this environment my overall feelings of job satisfaction as defined by Warr ( 1987 ) were greater than when I worked in a more traditional nursing culture — a point substantiated by Beardshaw and Robinson 's ( 1990 ) work . |
| 18 | it was , it was actually there was a programme on television and my husband took me to the doctor and he said he felt I 'd been on it too long , I 'd been on it about six months and when I come off it , I come off it pretty quick and I ended up erm I did n't know what was wrong with me and it ended up I 've now got epilepsy , and they did n't know if it was caused through erm I took a stroke about three four month after that and then I got the epilepsy as well , so they do n't know if that me coming off it |
| 19 | I must have missed you , cos if I went past Britannia , and I thought ooh they 'll probably still be in there |
| 20 | Cos if I go to the college I might be able to get a flat . |
| 21 | So say if I said to you , well if and I said to you , Well what could I do ? |
| 22 | But cos that 's on she says cos since I 've with Arthur . |
| 23 | I will want to come back on the same point that 's just been made , but if before I get to that there are some other points that I think I should make in explanation of the lead we have given , if I may call it that , in putting forward the distribution of the Greater York total . |
| 24 | Cos when I come over here , that was when Andrew was there you know , and she was going through all those records |
| 25 | I probably could , it depends if it 's got real orange in cos when I went to work at Lockwoods at Lymestock |
| 26 | Cos when I went to bed I mean , you know I tested it and it did n't seem too bad . |
| 27 | Well the thing is I ca n't handle rum cos when I went to that party Dan had |
| 28 | He was like as close as that and he was really staring and he was n't staring at the road cos as I went on a few feet he stared at the car again . |
| 29 | If as I suspect from what Mr has said that that the there is some reluctance to start revamping the Greater York in quotes figures . |
| 30 | For example , it would make me very happy if I could see you every night across my dinner table ; if when I woke in the morning , I would hear you wish me ‘ Bonjour , chéri ! ’ in that so charming accent of yours . |