Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for myself , I was back where I had begun in Opposition . |
| 2 | Although I had hoped for justice and understanding when my story was known , that was not to be . |
| 3 | Although I had kept in contact with several school friends from St Paul 's , I knew only one who was likely to have surplus accommodation in London , and I considered she might well turn out to be my one hope of not having to spend the rest of my life on a train somewhere between Romford and Regent 's Park . |
| 4 | In the preface to his great History of Europe , H. A. L. Fisher wrote : " Men wiser than and more learned than I have discerned in history a plot , a rhythm , a predetermined pattern . |
| 5 | It 's like what I said to Tony last night when I got in I said , I feel I could have achieved more if I 'd stayed at home and revised . |
| 6 | I got better results than if I 'd stayed at school . |
| 7 | ‘ If I 'd known in time , I would n't have . |
| 8 | I 'm terrible , if I 've gone to bed really late , quite , you know , I just ca n't catch up . |
| 9 | I suppose if I had gone to school , my life would be completely changed . |
| 10 | If I had gone into labour a couple of days earlier , I would have been on my own , down the block , with no nurse , nobody . |
| 11 | If I had admitted to cold in any of these instances , I should also have had to admit that my fund of energy was n't limitless . |
| 12 | If getting to the last eight of the Scottish Cup makes it look as if I have taken to management like a duck to water , I would be telling lies if I said the job was easy . |
| 13 | It was in light of this experience of priests who were barely capable of understanding the Latin Vulgate and Mass , or who juggled with a text and expounded it in such a way as to obscure its original meaning , that Tyndale now decided to translate the New Testament into English ‘ because I had perceived by experience , how that it was impossible to establish the lay-people in any truth , except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother-tongue ’ . |
| 14 | Yeah because I had said to father during the day on Sunday , I wonder if any of our children are alive ? |
| 15 | but that 's no problem for me , it used to be a problem but it is n't now because I 've worked on building up my confidence in other things so I 'm good at quite a lot of things and I always keep re-enforcing that that I 'm good at doing these things . |
| 16 | I had learnt how to take orders and get up in the morning since I had gone to boarding school at age seven . |
| 17 | I hate the smell of cigarettes since I 've packed in smoking I can not stand it |
| 18 | Just after I 'd finished at college , I went along to someone 's party and I remember telling this girl who I was chatting up that I played bass . |
| 19 | But I did also say to Mrs , that a new head would be appointed to take the imports from the first of September , that it might be better to discuss it with them after I 've discussed with Miss . |
| 20 | I do not see much to encourage me at all , but this does not worry me for it could be much later when they arrive , after I have left for home . |
| 21 | The night before I had dreamed of Darrowby . |
| 22 | When I got rid of fear I found we could make friends . |
| 23 | When I had finished with university , I qualified as an ecologist . |
| 24 | As I 've touched ON meter boxes … |
| 25 | It 's wrong , Mr Deputy Speaker , if they 're living in this country erm on a semi-permanent basis and happen to have been here last October they 'll have a vote so will any everybody else who 's a citizen of the European union , so will peers of the realm who happen to be living elsewhere whether they 're in this country or outside this country under these regulations and previous regulations , have a vote in the European elections and I think it 's wholly wrong that erm citizens of other European countries namely France because that 's the one and it 's remarkable is it not that France is the one that 's gon na be the cause of this whole edifice collapsing if we do n't submit to their extra demands but citizens of France who are citizens living in their colonies , as I 've said in South America , the West Indies and the Pacific , will have a vote in the European elections on June the ninth and yet we have got citizens for whom we are responsible for in this house , we can not shirk it onto anyone else , we deny them the responsibility and I think it 's about time the house addressed this matter . |
| 26 | All these as I 've said in hessian sack |
| 27 | Well all sorts , let sleeping dogs lie , the ones that underline them as I 've underlined in biro . |
| 28 | As I have argued at length elsewhere , retirement is both the leading form of age discrimination and the driving force behind the wider development of ageism in modern societies . |
| 29 | This is even more so when , as I have argued with homosexuality , so many dimensions of a culture have been displaced and/or condensed into the identity of the transgressor . |
| 30 | If , furthermore , animals lack self-consciousness , as I have argued in Chapter 6 , then no sense can be given ( a far stronger claim than that we do not know ) to the contention that they are aware of the prospect of death and terrified at its implications . |