Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeing I played two rounds of golf yesterday … ’ |
| 2 | They invited me to punk parties as noisy as tractor factories , where I swigged flat cans of beer , already shaken with a twist of cigarette butt . |
| 3 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 4 | But from my point of view what mattered most was that it bordered Abyssinia , where I hoped one day to be posted . |
| 5 | He turned out to be an efficient chairman of the BBC but my first impression was amply confirmed since , although I had frequent dealings with him , he seemed to have absolutely no interest in what to me really mattered . |
| 6 | ALTHOUGH I welcome any move towards a more open society I am a little disturbed by the relentless way in which childhood is being forced to be politically correct . |
| 7 | My hon. Friend is entirely correct and it would be as well if the House bore that important fact in mind when considering some of the allegations that are made — although I hope this afternoon for a more responsible tone in the remarks of the hon. Member for Sedgefield . |
| 8 | He also distributed library books to those who asked for them — although I saw few books in the cells or barracks and it was stated that few prisoners were interested in reading . |
| 9 | Although I have serious reservations about the methodology of most of these studies ( in that they are far too pessimistic about the ability of the business community to respond to changing circumstances following changing relative prices ) and although some of the shortages which appear are due not so much to the limits of nature as the intervention and regulation of governments , nevertheless they raise sufficiently serious doubts about such things as the effects of carbon dioxide and the present lack of adequate recycling that I believe they must be taken seriously . |
| 10 | Although I have great respect for W. 's consultant and for the dedication of the staff , it seems to me that they have been manoeuvred into a position from which a change is necessary , even if it is a change that carries the risk of interpretation by W. as ‘ yet another adult rejection and failure . ’ |
| 11 | Now , although I have great respect for er , the representative of the Osteoporosis Society I se , I still think as a epidemiologist that there have n't been enough women on H R T for long enough |
| 12 | In the result , although I have considerable sympathy with the third party in the position in which he finds himself and I think it may well be the case that the third defendant will fail to obtain contribution from him , I do not consider that this will inevitably be so . |
| 13 | Although I have fundamental disagreements with the Minister on many issues , I acknowledge that he made many concessions to the logical arguments of hon. Members from the three Opposition parties involved . |
| 14 | Then the strategy ‘ cooperate with your neighbour if he cooperates ; otherwise defect ’ would be an ESS , although I have some difficulty in seeing how it would evolve in the first place . |
| 15 | The camera hones in on a platinum blonde Madonna , poured into a slinky , strapless white dress that she swears ‘ took more fittings than I had shooting days in the movie ’ . |
| 16 | No more than I want any part in Local Government where Councillors and Officers can spend twenty thousand pounds tripping all over Europe and let's put something straight , the T and A tonight , which we all believe , says Councillor has no right to complain about that cos he went on a jet plane to Brussels . |
| 17 | ‘ In which case it 's unlikely I would have seen any more than I did this afternoon in your garden . ’ |
| 18 | OK , so I ordered some flowers in advance . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , I thought I 'd best get as far from Dalston as I could , so I came this side of London Bridge and looked for lodgings . |
| 20 | I had a friend who suffered from twisted testicles so I made sure part of my sponsorship arrangement is that I 'm provided with decent shorts with inner briefs that give me support . |
| 21 | All right , so I took full responsibility for the organisation of the sale , but there is no way I can be blamed for the outcome . |
| 22 | None of the dealers I spoke to felt confident enough to sex Peacock Gobies , so I purchased seven fish from three different dealers . |
| 23 | When I got out of high school I wanted to be a caddie , so I got some bags at my local club . |
| 24 | It is not snowing , but there is enough wind to be chilling and the day is grey and misty , so I get little sense of where the camp is , with visibility only a few tens of metres . |
| 25 | I could salvage whatever I fancied , so I transported 60 lengths of shiplap to my neighbour 's vegetable patch . |
| 26 | As engaged couples used to make conversation and play parlour games in lieu of the physical pleasures they were forbidden , so I imagined erotic scenes with Alison to console myself for what was denied me : walks and talks , games and jokes , company , solace , an end to my dreadful , soul-destroying loneliness . |
| 27 | The best way to understand how people , from all walks of life , can be helped is to hear from them personally , so I asked several people from my classes in Devon to write a short summary about how the Alexander Technique had helped them . |
| 28 | The width I require across the top of the sleeve was 44 centimetres altogether , so I marked 22 centimetres on the font and 22 centimetres on the back of the garment , which was were the sleeve was to fit in . |
| 29 | The net six games after Oldham do n't contain a real toughie , so I think 13 points from them is about par . |
| 30 | I did not get a grant for my preclinical years so I worked half time in research for two years . |