Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Is this where I make the noble suggestion of keeping away at weekends to leave you free to sail as much as you want ? ’ he demanded . |
| 2 | It ended up where I felt the whole world was on my shoulders . |
| 3 | I went by the Galerie de Diane and then down the stairs leading to the basement in the Pavillon de Flore where I followed the underground passage , badly lit — but where were the kitchens ? |
| 4 | where I mucked the whole thing up trying to get the |
| 5 | The second half brought Tchaikovsky 's 4th symphony , where I fear the fourth movement was a little too fast , certainly on its opening , although a conductor can well afford to accelerate the pace towards the conclusion . |
| 6 | I said goodnight and went to my own room where I found the sleeping-car attendant had duly lowered my bed and laid a chocolate truffle on the pillow . |
| 7 | In this Church where I encounter the Triune God I am called to worship with my whole being . |
| 8 | Leaks were the flavour of the year in 1983 , but the trouble was that neither Ken Clarke nor I had the first idea what report this was meant to be as there were no plans , secret or otherwise , for privatization . |
| 9 | We telephoned Mr Hector Charlesworth but he was , as yet , unable to take any remedial action , although I had the distinct impression that he would have liked to do so . |
| 10 | Thus , although I use the present tense , the physical organization of communities and the economic organization that I discuss are more relevant to the pre-1970 period . |
| 11 | Of course I am addicted to Alexis although I admit the entire thing is very far fetched . |
| 12 | Although I hated the very idea of selling things to people who might not want to buy them ( even if it was good for them ) I made quite a few sales , the main commission deriving from the sale of a Group Insurance Scheme to 32 men from the Times-Herald staff . |
| 13 | It got me noticed here although I think the one-man show I did outside on my own was the real deciding factor with the RSC . |
| 14 | You see although I wear the German uniform , you might really say that I am more neutral than anything else . |
| 15 | It was probably this occasion which prompted Lloyd George to write of Balfour : ‘ I confess that I underrated the passionate attachment to his country which burnt under that calm , indifferent , and apparently frigid exterior ’ ; upon which Balfour 's latest biographer has somewhat severely commented : ‘ By ‘ passionate attachment to his country , ’ Lloyd George , presumably meant Balfour 's backing for him as Prime Minister … ’ |
| 16 | It was , especially , upon retiring to bed late in the night of the seventh or eighth day after the placing of the Lady Madeline within the donjon , that I experienced the full power of such feelings . |
| 17 | I sent away and passed the exams and I became a policeman , but I always wanted to become a policeman when I , from about eighteen or nineteen it 's just that I drifted the wrong way . |
| 18 | For I have not bothered to tell her that I spotted the blasted thing on our drive back from Bournemouth to London , lurking in a lay-by . |
| 19 | Last year , so piqued was I by this , that I plunged the outsize handbag of an excessively bossy senior stewardess from Central Office into a fire-bucket of water on the grounds that it could have contained an incendiary device . |
| 20 | I admit that I prefer the longer film , but that may be because I saw it first . |
| 21 | During my time as a gamekeeper it was essential that I knew the precise location of all these extended burrows . |
| 22 | then I had another I had another wee problem that I 'd been , I had been to see , and it was Doctor I had been , and the doctor that I saw the last time er I had three big bruises on my back , and she |
| 23 | Tell her that I hope the next time I come to stay she wo n't have such a huge fire in the Blue Room . ’ |
| 24 | It was only when telling someone about the finale , weeks later , that I realized the unconscious pun of ‘ Sayer Little Prayer ’ and he washed over me all over again . |
| 25 | But it 's still the same , but it 's the pains that I got the last time that 's gon it 's like sharp pains that 's going round about , just the insides of the nipple . |
| 26 | He was on his way home — characteristically late , I realize , now that I keep the same office hours from the back blocks of the building where I am now sitting . |
| 27 | at this stage that I made the unconscious decision , later to manifest itself in physiological terms , to postpone sexuality until I felt myself ready to cope with it . |
| 28 | My story is similar to Annie 's in that I made the same mistake and thought of my granddaughter as a substitute child . |
| 29 | Point two is this , that I made the bottom border there er about be exactly five centimetres . |
| 30 | It was only then that I noticed the small man seated in the armchair next to mine . |