Example sentences of "[subord] i [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where I first met Maggie . |
| 2 | I stood in that upper gallery where I first saw Dana and he cast that look upon me which was to make me his slave . |
| 3 | Now the Marais Poitevin is a pleasantly low-profile tourist attraction where you can take canal-boat trips from villages that have hardly changed in the 15-odd years I 've known them : Maillezais , with a huge and rather dull ruined abbey , and Coulon , where I first ate the delicious local version of moules marinieres called mouclade . |
| 4 | But for a moment , between the door of the cage and where I first took stance , I could feel the greatness of the sky , it was on my wings . |
| 5 | When I looked then at first I could n't see , it was all — you know — black like inside my eyes , but I knew they were open and I could hear the kids yelling — and when I got up he was lying on the sofa , snoring — he must 've just dropped me and let me where I lie- ’ She stopped and Clare sat quietly waiting . |
| 6 | erm all other types of employment other than I five type employment . |
| 7 | But one must never pick the baby up — it was practically incestuous to enjoy one 's baby , so I gathered , young , obedient , motherless , indoctrinated mother that I was . |
| 8 | When I came home the sun was shining brilliantly and warmly into the front of the house so I first of all had a read about the similar groups and then had a quick and short snooze till the phone rang and I began work on the laptop in the sunshine , as the battery capacity lasts about an hour or so . |
| 9 | I think if I was about say Professor Lock that if I twelve was dispensed with you might notice a difference in terms of the application of I five . |
| 10 | Do n't really imaginary grid on this side , imaginary grid on that side , from which , if I second one , you can see A , that A equals minus fifteen over three . |
| 11 | We are inclined to think that the grammar of the linguistic expression is some sort of consequence of the process being of a certain kind ; for example , that ‘ I remember X-ing ’ is true if and only if I X-ed because remembering is a process in which one somehow sees into the past . |
| 12 | on saving education , he said that I supposed to get the six teachers , he said I 'm gon na get rid of five he said and if I possible can I 'm going to make it four , that got ta remember those of you who are on protected salaries erm you again the pay and a half other members of staff and he said he wanted voluntary redundancies and early retirements where possible , you know , and also he had n't supposed to tell for a month so this will come out later in the year |
| 13 | ‘ We would never ‘ ave to buy food for ourselves if I half-poisoned all your stupid little fans , ’ she said . |
| 14 | If I misrepresent the subject of war ( but not the concern with love and loss ) in Housman 's poetry I can even fuel my own paranoia about the condition of our planet . |
| 15 | ‘ I ask if I supposed to check out and hand in my keys , like a hotel . ’ |
| 16 | So if I short er short circuit the rest of my cross examination on these various policies that you say er we 're in erm we 're in some measure of conflict with , your answer would be in in relation to E N V Eleven and E N V Twelve which you also cite , do I put it fairly your answer would be this ? |
| 17 | Until I first inspected the garden I had n't even had the faintest idea that you could grow your own sago as a fence against your neighbour and then eat it ! |
| 18 | I would not properly be able to understand the Mughals ' palace , said Dr Jaffery , unless I first read through their book of etiquette . |
| 19 | Now the thing that worries me is that the N R A and our linkage with them is I do n't think it 's early days for them and they have n't got the the power and the erm law behind them to enforce it as the way which I think most of us would like to think of have a erm erm an organization tha that can in fact start bringing the law in that if people fail to do what they say erm so that aspect I think I now Chris also mentioned this erm tilting in West Sussex and again that mentioned in the structure plan , because I six mill a year but in ten years that 's two and a half inches . |
| 20 | I am allowed a say on this question of standing up at football matches because I first planted my feet on the terraces at Barnsley when I was five and spent the next 15 years or more rooted to the spot . |
| 21 | I decided to give him the name of ‘ Man Friday ’ , because I first saw him on a Friday . |
| 22 | I FIND television good for winding down because I Red Dwarf is one of my favourites and Craig Charles is a really funny bloke . |
| 23 | That 's what I want to get that number off you for that as well because I some would suggest anyway |
| 24 | ( The Library Association School Libraries Section was not founded till I 936 , and the School Library Association till 1937 ; when the two came together in 1945 under the latter name , the sad separation of school librarianship from other branches of one profession was reinforced . ) |
| 25 | There is a si a significant difference between the two policies though , in that the wording of the revised policy is much more specific about saying part of our need will be found elsewhere , whereas I five as in the approved structure plan merely makes reference to the fact that all of our requirement will be found in Greater York . |
| 26 | So it 's Broadhurst 's Wager that comes to me now , comes to me at three o' clock in the morning while I harken to the cooling unit . |
| 27 | I remember how her country beginnings showed themselves then : she made no fuss about seeming to be lost , nor did she work herself up into a state as the aunts would have done , just stood there patiently and quietly while I untangled her and found the way ; and did not even grumble , although after that I let her decide where we should go , which was usually across a field near the sewage plant , and along a road near the gasworks . |
| 28 | The authors he found most helpful in this ‘ interim ’ period were all mystics , or figures who emphasized spirit over matter — MacDonald , William Ralph Inge , Jacob Boehme , whose quasi-theosophical , semi-astrological De Signatura Rerum ( The Signatures of Things ) gave him ‘ about the biggest shaking up I 've got from a book , since I first read Phantastes ’ . |
| 29 | Ever since I first saw a Judas tree , its winter bare branches studded with clusters of rosy-purple blossom , I have meant to plant one in the garden . |
| 30 | Of course , since I first penned these stirring lines E. O. Wilson has brought forth his spectacular synthesis of ethology and population genetics and opened anew the vigorous debate concerning the roles of the biological and the socially acquired in the determination of human behaviour . |