Example sentences of "[subord] i [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A profoundly deaf therapist said : ‘ I do feel that if I did n't have this type of job where I 'm meeting different people every day I would withdraw very quickly into myself . ’ |
| 2 | I had an alarming reading for an Agatha Christie film where I was given several sheets of script to sight read without any logical link up in the scenes being read and no-one to read with , except an office assistant who could n't read dialogue . |
| 3 | I 'd only been there about five minutes when they came to escort me off down to Bleak House , where I was stripped naked and given a blanket and put into a cell . |
| 4 | Where I was going that morning I forget |
| 5 | Although I am progressing all the time , like most people starting a new hobby for the first time , I need some help . |
| 6 | Although I was feeling well I was obviously weak . |
| 7 | Although I was spending most of my time writing the book on Americans abroad , I see from my records of the late 1960s that I was also presenting several television programmes , both in London and in the north . |
| 8 | Er the only thing that I have not handed you is the Labour resolution which er twice mentions demands now although I 'm supporting this strong report here , I think it 's a mistake to demand things , it is , it does n't put people in a very good frame of mind to coax them but and I would ask the er Miss who I think we 're going to vote for this , whether she would consider changing to request , because I think we going to the situation where we make it known to the Department of Transport that we 're a string of such like , we do n't to upset them any more , I think that we requested that we answer is we would actually get a result in one . |
| 9 | Although I 'm approaching 50 , I 'm not yet old enough to renounce the idea of love . |
| 10 | Badly treated ‘ It was considerably less than I am getting this year . |
| 11 | ‘ At a salary less than I was earning twenty years ago in the State system . |
| 12 | This was going on for a couple of days , so I was getting worried and I took him to the prison doctor and he says , ‘ It might be with you breastfeeding , try him on the bottle . ’ |
| 13 | That was my husband 's favourite so I 'm keeping that one till the last . |
| 14 | If I am to take four ferrets with me , my preference is for one box with one partition and two ferrets in each compartment . |
| 15 | CAN I REFER TO ACET EVEN IF I AM USING OTHER SERVICES ? |
| 16 | Q What do I do if I am feeling unwell at any time ? |
| 17 | AFTER the recent reports of carjacking I now lock the doors if I am travelling alone or with just my children , but this makes me uneasy because of the risk of being trapped after an accident . |
| 18 | ‘ But if I am to achieve such merit as wins fame , then my life has not been so unworthy an exchange for hers as I always feared ! ’ |
| 19 | If I were to take this gun and shoot … who ? |
| 20 | No , If I were to do that , my psychiatrist would reckon it proved my cure was complete . ’ |
| 21 | From the Federation 's point of view , er I have substantially difficult , a difficulty , in guiding you as to where the new settlement ought to be , because in effect I would be choosing between members , and that is a certain route to my unemployment , if I were to do that , and I do n't wish to be unemployed . |
| 22 | And if I were to pick one of my own , it would be either ‘ Zen Arcade ’ or ‘ Workbook ’ . ' |
| 23 | I would be treading a little widely in the direction of sub judice if I were to answer that , because any decision is for the jurisdiction of the court . |
| 24 | ‘ And , if I were to use all my available charm , you 'd be willing again . ’ |
| 25 | If I were to choose any country in the world to live as a family in it would have to be somewhere different , perhaps exotic . |
| 26 | His reply is just about repeatable in this magazine : ‘ Look , ’ he said , ‘ big cars are for men with little dicks , and if I were to spend all my time polishing it , what would that make me ? ’ |
| 27 | But what do you think my parents would think if I were to become involved with you ? |
| 28 | ‘ I knew that I was playing with fire ’ , he confessed ; ‘ I ran the risk , and if I were set free I would still do the same . ’ |
| 29 | But if I were to find such a change taking place while an animal is learning , unless the conditions for that change met all the subsequent criteria , I would be no further forward than the experiments of the 1960s that I criticized in the last chapter . |
| 30 | Or if I were feeling lyrical that day , I might write , ‘ It is a curious truth that grasshoppers have their hearing-organs in the sides of the abdomen . |