Example sentences of "[conj] [subord] i [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If ever I succeed ’ he writes ‘ in bringing our native kings back to life in my songs , and Arthur who waged wars even under the earth , or if I tell of the splendid heroes of the table rendered invincible by their bond of comradeship and , oh if inspiration would but come to me , if I smash the Saxon phalanxes beneath the impact of the British . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | he went mad and he was trying to cover it up and that cos I mean over the club , and he goes there on a Saturday afternoon , he gets some stick over there . |
| 4 | ‘ I also swear , ’ Prince Edward declared , ‘ that if I knew about the Lady 's … death |
| 5 | For a moment another thought crossed my mind — that if I lived in the United States while undertaking an ‘ experiment ’ I might be sued if I failed . |
| 6 | Well I erm , I was , I was burgled about a year ago and I 'm am ex er , I 'm a retired criminal lawyer , and , but I , I felt that if I lived in the States and trained in the States and I carried a gun then and I felt very vulnerable in not having a gun because he , I was in my own home and he fist me with a knife |
| 7 | ‘ When Chelsea signed me Ian Porterfield told me that if I got in the side he would n't drop me so I want to make up for lost time . ’ |
| 8 | The theory is that if I stay among the faceless long enough , I become faceless myself . ’ |
| 9 | When we started having sex I was fifteen and scared that if I went on the Pill the doctor would tell my mum . |
| 10 | First I think that if I go to the car , he 'll be waiting , so I wo n't go to the car . |
| 11 | When I changed buses there was just time to get the sweets and bananas — the bananas were very good today ; and on the other bus there was a nice driver who said that if I sat near the front he would let me off at the crossing if he was held up in the traffic , instead of my going on to the bus stop and having to walk back ; because of the rain . ’ |
| 12 | Later I tell C that if I worked for the Daily Star , I 'd have my story already . |
| 13 | They had handcuffs on me and I 've still got marks on my hands — you can see — where the handcuffs were put on so tight that when I got to the station they could n't get them off me . |
| 14 | I confess that when I came into the room more than twenty years — slipped away . ’ |
| 15 | Er I think I learnt that when I went to the meeting of the South East Croquet Federation earlier in the year . |
| 16 | I mean , I keep hearing that when I come into the environmental health department , that , just that people are interested in what Oxford are doing . |
| 17 | Therefore , it was not surprising that when I intervened on the hon. Member for Newham , North-East he was a little coy about referring to his party 's record on unemployment . |
| 18 | It was a big disappointment to me that when I applied for the news editor 's job , I did n't get it . |
| 19 | I discovered that when I reported to the House that hundreds of young people in the London borough of Newham had no jobs or YT places . |
| 20 | After a couple of days in his new home Skipper was much more relaxed ; he no longer jumped at every sound and soon learned that when I arrived on the yard in the morning , it meant food . |
| 21 | All of which explained that when I arrived at the BMC 's International Meet halfway through the week , the climbers that drifted into breakfast that morning looked like they 'd been on the receiving end of a very nasty artillery barrage . |
| 22 | I was taught that when I worked in the grocery warehouse . |
| 23 | Right just one last thing that we need to think about is that as I said with the with the learning styles , there 's no right or wrong |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 25 | I know exactly who I am and where I stand in the world . |
| 26 | ‘ They 've been bringing their dogs to do their business in my front garden , and if I go to the council , d' you know what they 'll say ? |
| 27 | Nothing gives me more pleasure now and if I go to the to the libraries and a young lad I say a young man like you will come to me and say , Hello Nurse , How are you ? |
| 28 | And if I fall into the pulse at the start of a piece of music it is a physical joy . |
| 29 | They were absolutely horrid and if I went on the beach , the first thing I did was to dig a hole in the sand to put the feet in and then just stay there all day … . |
| 30 | Cos if I go to the college I might be able to get a flat . |