Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within minutes I was inside the camp , where I hoped to meet the tinkers who had tried to rob me at Killorglin . |
| 2 | I fingered the lump on my head where I 'd struck the drainpipe . |
| 3 | Morgan and Smith 1989 ) , where I had had the discussion with Simon Holdaway mentioned above , the symbolic nature of police culture consistently surfaced to confound the economic assessment of good practice which the Home Secretary had set in his opening address to the participants . |
| 4 | The person on duty disappeared out the back and I went to sit in the same seat where I had sat the night before . |
| 5 | I do n't where I 've put the thing . |
| 6 | I was taken back to the cell , where I started throwing the furniture about . |
| 7 | It now belongs to Lord Bolton and has a grand little tearoom where I have slaked the dust absorbed on summer cycling trips on many an occasion . |
| 8 | Apart from public education , my own field of interest and experience has been in the discourse analysis of language in the magistrates ' court , where I have played the roles of a bilingual interpreter and of a sociolinguist observing the language scene . |
| 9 | But there will as I my honourable friend knows , there will be quite an argument when we see the prospectus and I have n't had the priv the privilege of seeing it erm although I 've had the opportunity to discuss er its contents with th with the er chairman of the P I A er er and the Chief Executive . |
| 10 | Those Marshalls sure sound great , ’ but although I 'd done the work on them it did n't really help me a lot . |
| 11 | I could hardly remember having muffins before , although I 'd seen the muffin man in his white apron , a towel over his arm and a tray of muffins every Sunday afternoon . |
| 12 | It was awful , because although I 'd worn the dress all day , and stuck up for myself , I did feel bad about it ; they made me feel bad , sort of guilty , as if I was showing off my body . |
| 13 | Although I 'd followed the progress of the King trial in the papers , it was only then that it began to hit home what a symbol he had become for the suppressed majority of my city . |
| 14 | Although I have used the term ‘ garments ’ here , you are of course free to design anything you like in the ORIGINAL shaping section if you have the knowledge to be able to do so . |
| 15 | Well , it 's alright if , you know , if you 're in a room where the fire 's on , although I have had the heating on erm a few days recently because of the cold . |
| 16 | If we reject the idea that context is situation ( although I have accommodated the concept of situation in my definition of context ) we can treat deixis in poetry not as a kind of " pseudo-deixis ' , as some critics such as Culler ( 1974 ) have suggested , but simply as deixis framed by a particular genre . |
| 17 | Although I have described the events in terms of the DUP 's success in displacing other Unionist groups , the leaders of the DUP were not fixed on personal aggrandizement at any cost . |
| 18 | Although I have stressed the importance of all children having access to the full primary curriculum , it must be recognised that some children do need special provision , more time , and/or extra help if they are to profit from the opportunity . |
| 19 | Nowhere in my diary do I mention this physical discomfort , and even now I ca n't remember it as amounting to pain , although I do remember the school doctor drawing the matron 's attention to the extensive bruising on the softer parts of my body . |
| 20 | Richard Curtis , 20 , student ( far right ) : ‘ I prefer a more classical look although I do like the shirt . |
| 21 | The inner door has a large mosquito net , although I did feel the mesh should have been on the outside of the door flap so you could keep bugs out . |
| 22 | I felt such a strong love for them that I planned to spend the rest of my life among them , and to try to become more like them . |
| 23 | I have placed in the Library a copy of the letter that I wrote explaining the issues in great detail . |
| 24 | The majority of prison letters that I receive have the ring of truth ; the reason being that it is not in human nature ( of which the law is profoundly ignorant ) for guilty men to go on proclaiming their innocence month after month , year after year , when they do not have the evidence , the impetus , or the skills to do so , at least with any show of conviction . |
| 25 | Yeah , well all I can say , is that I 've seen the building and I would I would think th that it 's no problem . |
| 26 | Vulgar song , but I 'm demonstrating that I 've seen the light at last . |
| 27 | This is my garden — and now that I 've dug the tunnel , I want you to think of it as your garden , too ! ’ |
| 28 | It 's Iris 's turn to call us really but , but I , I did think about Iris earlier and I should really phone just to see how your dad is , Bobby because it 's really up to her just to see about the weekend and much times that I 've phoned the hospital recently . |
| 29 | But it helps a lot to know that I 've balanced the books . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I 've worked out now that I 've hit the woodwork 10 times this season , so two inches either way and I could have had 14 goals instead of four , ’ he lamented . |