Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] [adv] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except that privately I was lauded quite a lot and told , ‘ Oh that 's good , keep going into the hospitals and doing that ’ , but people could n't acknowledge it in public because their jobs would be on the line . |
| 2 | Oh , ’ she added , ‘ except that somehow I never mentioned what I got from Dad . |
| 3 | And there is much more advice that I did not take in , except that later I remember it when a new situation arises . |
| 4 | ‘ Except that later I shall have to tell your Uncle Matthew . |
| 5 | It was as if I 'd only just found him , except that now I 'd start to wail like a baby if someone so much as knocked my little finger . |
| 6 | I 'd started locking my shirts in a desk drawer every night , except that now I 'd lost the key with all my Ben Shermans in there . |
| 7 | Every morning I climbed into the BMW and swept off , just as Dennis had once done , except that once I reached the Banbury Road I had nowhere to go . |
| 8 | Well , I did wear them once , and nor and then I danced , but not often . |
| 9 | I said I 'd remember that if ever I found him dangling upside down by one toe from a ski-lift cable . |
| 10 | ‘ You may be sure , ’ said Jared Tunstall , ‘ that if ever I do go bankrupt I should certainly die of grief , or of mortification at such a turn . |
| 11 | But my grandmother had told me that if ever I was trapped , no matter what , I should do anything to stay alive . |
| 12 | Whatever I did I was convinced that people did n't like me , and that if only I could be slim and keep that way with sensible eating habits , they would . |
| 13 | He went on for a long time — we had such energy , then , in our quarrels — and sank deeper and deeper into what was really absurdity , saying that it was all his fault , he had been a lousy husband , too absorbed in his job to notice I was bored and fretting because I was ‘ wasting my education ’ , and that if only I had been ‘ straight ’ with him , we could have done something to put this right . |
| 14 | I have often missed him , often felt that if only I could talk over a particular problem with him he would help me to see the way . |
| 15 | Well if I 'd have known that before else I 'll go and land on the . |
| 16 | I knew that I was alone , and I found myself saying over my name to myself to intensify my individuality to bring about a conviction that though alone I was strong . |
| 17 | I think what was different in my approach , and it partly goes back to my background , is that firstly I had been working on educational planning , and that secondly I come from a background of market research . |
| 18 | I often have this type of fantasy when very tired , and that certainly I was . |
| 19 | For a moment I thought I had been mistaken , and that perhaps I had left the switch on after the light failed , but no , I was sure I had switched off . |
| 20 | You are perhaps aware ’ , wrote Gould grandly to William Swainson in January 1837 , ‘ that I have two of Mrs Goulds ’ brothers in Australia engaged in collecting the natural product of that fine country , nearly the whole of which are consigned to myself and that consequently I possess perhaps greater facilities than most persons for the production of a work of this description . |
| 21 | I came from Jamaica over twenty years ago and I got married in this country and I have stayed here ever since and although perhaps I might want to go back to Jamaica it 's not home to him . |
| 22 | I have n't had a period for over a year , and although sometimes I think to myself ‘ I 'm all right really ’ , then I remember I have n't got my periods back and I realise that it 's not as simple as it seems . |
| 23 | Over the years I have bought many Pearl recordings and although occasionally I find a particular passage hard to live with , I would find it difficult not to play any of the following at least twice a year : Otello with Martinelli/Tibbett ; Bruno Walter conducting Mahler in 1936 and 1938 ( Das Lied von der Erde and the Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 ) ; the pre-war Glyndebourne recordings with Busch ; the 1935 Vienna Rosenkavalier with Lotte Lehmann and Gerhard Hüsch singing Schubert 's Winterreise and Die Schöne Müllerin . |
| 24 | He rubs it absently , accosting strangers in the street , seeking out a friend and within minutes exclaiming that he wants to be by himself , watching children wistfully , accusing wellwishers of persecuting him with their kindness ; until at last he explodes on the brink of confession in a terrible universal cry : ‘ Oh , if only I were alone and nobody loved me , and if only I had never loved anyone ! ’ |
| 25 | I know that it is there , and if only , if only I can choose the right words , and if only I can tap the exact right source of power , then I shall see it ignite and flare into life . |
| 26 | And if ever I thought it , that was the time that I thought that Mother knew what she was singing about . |
| 27 | I should be congratulated not criticized , and if sometimes I 've been a bit unfair , played a bit of a game , that 's life is n't it . |
| 28 | erm if if like I mean for instance we were n't clear about what we were talking about |
| 29 | If and again I probably overestimate the average journey time does not exceed thirty minutes , it is difficult even with Merseyrail to conceive trains being delayed in excess of an hour . |
| 30 | There was only allegations and and again I say today that we have not ever found any any proof of any child abuse out there . |