Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A couple of blocks away is John Smiths , where I met my old friend Robert Clow , in company with his number two , Willie Anderson , current treasurer of the BA . |
| 2 | And she had opened my locked drawer where I keep my private papers , but I 'm not going to mention that . |
| 3 | ‘ On Lee Beach there 's a safe anchorage where I keep my old fishing boat , ’ said her host . |
| 4 | I lay there in the Bomb Circle where I killed her other son , and I hoped that she was dead , too . |
| 5 | South bank as well 'cause that 's where I started , where I got my first board ever . |
| 6 | I watch the familiar shops and houses go by ; Mum 's old gift shop ( now a video shop ) ; the Arms , where I had my first pint ; Dad 's old garage , still doing business . |
| 7 | I came from a B-Cat prison where I had my own basin and toilet . |
| 8 | Prices ( including flights ) based on the Taj Holiday Village where I stayed my first week start at £566 per person for seven days ' bed and breakfast ( £738 for fourteen days ) . |
| 9 | I waited for another few seconds and then crossed the landing to my own flat where I completed my own process of locking myself in for the night . |
| 10 | How he had overcome all the complex problems of graft-rejection , septicaemia , and so on — not to mention the central problem of bestowing life — was beyond me , although I took it that fortune had favoured his researches . |
| 11 | ALTHOUGH I promised you last week that I 'd bring details of the all Ireland Schools teams competition this week , I 'm afraid that I do n't have full details to hand as yet , so I 'll hold it over to next week . |
| 12 | ALTHOUGH I promised you last week that I 'd bring details of the all Ireland Schools teams competition this week , I 'm afraid that I do n't have full details to hand as yet , so I 'll hold it over to next week . |
| 13 | Because what I really want , after all , is to give them a true belief , and I know very well that , although I want my own beliefs to be true ( because that 's what makes them useful ) , we can all make mistakes . |
| 14 | As a result , I have never been less tempted to support an Opposition motion , although I assure my hon. Friend who is the Whip on duty that I am never tempted in that direction . |
| 15 | Nor would I have taken that any more seriously than I took his actual words . |
| 16 | ‘ I knew him better than I knew my own father , anyway . ’ |
| 17 | Yet I did not want to leave things alone entirely , without making an effort , but it is restricted to the expression of two things — the cypresses — the olive trees — let others who are better and more powerful than I reveal their symbolic language … |
| 18 | It tasted far worse than I imagine my four-day-old socks would — a memorable moment remembered for the wrong reason , not least for the expression of anguish on Pete 's face as the brew hit his tonsils . |
| 19 | The family could not speak English and my schoolboy French was almost exhausted so I bade them good afternoon but managed to make them understand that I would have dinner with them one evening soon — ‘ An English dinner . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ After The White Lion won they gave me £6,000 and told me to get them another , so I sold them three shares in Rambo 's Hall — who I 'd bought cheaply in a job lot as a yearling — for £1,500 each . |
| 21 | Unfortunately the rapport I had built up with the director was wasted , as the commercial he was working on went wrong and had to be done again , so I met my new director over a pie and a pint in my local before shooting started . |
| 22 | ‘ So I took my petty revenge . |
| 23 | It looked like half a letter T. The needle was so bent that I knew I knew that I would not be able to remove it in the usual way , so I took my heavy pliers ( the ones with which I behead the Passap/Pfaff needles when they got damaged ) and cut off the top of the needle , below the bend . |
| 24 | He was having none of it , so I concealed my vertiginous anxieties . |
| 25 | He was picked to run in the London Schools at Crystal Palace but withdrew , so I had my first opportunity to run outside the immediate neighbourhood of school and borough , in a new environment on an international track . |
| 26 | ‘ I felt he was going to try and hit me again so I stuck my right hand out . |
| 27 | To tackle the problem I needed more detailed information about the behaviour of the transformer-rectifier circuit , so I measured its d.c. output voltage at various currents and plotted the results on a graph ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 28 | I was still living with my parents at the time and I 'd not long passed my driving test — with Bernie 's assistance — so I borrowed my old man 's Austin Cambridge one Sunday morning and drove over to Nick 's . |
| 29 | She only sees her husband once a year because he works in Outer Mongolia , so I feel my three month 's absence from home is not as bad as it might be . |
| 30 | I 'm working with ideas , still writing songs , so I have my personal input from that , plus I 'm always interested in the input and suggestions I get from the letters I receive from all over the world . |