Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I accept that there has been a steady concentration of power in the hands of large , sophisticated and diversified publishing companies , yet it is still possible for you or me to set up on our own , and publish highly professional and innovative books from our own back bedroom at very little cost . |
| 2 | He knows something about the murder he does n't want you or me to find out about . ’ |
| 3 | But there is one scene where I fall over a sofa , which we added on the day of the shoot . ’ |
| 4 | where I burn off my life without blossoming . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've only got to the end of the year but my family will be carrying on where I left off . |
| 6 | Back to London , pick up where I left off , more crimes and misdemeanours , more Anthony Stewarts and the commonplace killings that proceed from a lifetime of domestic loathing , or lust , or rivalry , or greed . |
| 7 | ‘ The point is — do I want to take up where I left off ? ’ |
| 8 | For me it begins to be noticeable at the railway station where I get off the train each evening , and becomes gradually stronger , like a magnetic field , as I walk up the hill . |
| 9 | Back in the old days , in the Fifties , before the nights of car-park-training , people kept big dogs , with names like Nero and Saladin , Sakkie and Doris ; dogs that roamed the sandy ex-Servicemen 's estate where I grew up , on the edge of Johannesburg , a jumble of sandy streets named after English kings and queens . |
| 10 | Jeffrey : My first sexual encounters were in South Wales , where I grew up . |
| 11 | ‘ Not round where I grew up , they 're not , ’ Cashman said . |
| 12 | Come and see the sorcerer 's kitchen where I brew up the grotesque potions that make me a legend here . ’ |
| 13 | Following this period in the homoeopathic hospital I worked for two years in a professorial immunological unit where I set up studies in allergy to assess the efficacy of homoeopathic remedies in house-dust-mite allergy and hay fever ( allergy to grass pollens ) . |
| 14 | And in the fourth year I tend to do them an evaluation sheet , where I write down lots of questions about the project they have just done , and maybe get them to sit for a double lesson and write about the things they experienced and found out … |
| 15 | It is compatible with Windows , but if you 've got Windows would you need another system of file management ? and is n't that where I came in ! |
| 16 | Another number , ‘ That Would n't Be You ’ , was replaced by ‘ Is This Where I Wake Up ? ’ , sung by Crawford , Diana Quick and the dancers , who included Suzanne Danielle and Jo-Anne Robinson , who subsequently became the star 's secretary and girlfriend . |
| 17 | ‘ They wanted a dramatic ending where I kill off the central character and they also did n't like me making fun of the audience . |
| 18 | I got myself elected onto the Students ' Council where I muddled through , never having read the agenda papers and often not knowing what on earth everyone else was talking about . |
| 19 | I was at a meeting in London yesterday where I handed over my report . ’ |
| 20 | So it was an immediate retreat to Fort William for celebratory pakora and a chicken breast curry , where I changed out of my walking gear into some jeans to look like a local . |
| 21 | I began to tremble violently and would have fainted , had he not grabbed me by the elbow and guided me to a low wall , where I slumped down . |
| 22 | ‘ Sometimes I ask myself what have I done with my career , ’ she jokes , ‘ coming back to do rep , exactly where I started off . |
| 23 | We called at Brigade H.Q where I picked up my bagpipes . |
| 24 | Another pull for ten minutes or so brought me up on to the summit , where I sat down to have my lunch . |
| 25 | In 1941 I was trained as a Navigator/Radio in the RAF and was eventually sent to an OTU where I crewed up with a Canadian pilot , Bob Tidy of Toronto . |
| 26 | Or I bring out my mates . |
| 27 | Either I go to England with your word , or I go back to Germany . |
| 28 | Although he had defied her before , it had only been in words but now the thought that he had the choice of putting those words into action and so set a new pattern , and in doing so break one of the threads that tied him to her , caused his whole body to tremble and his voice to quiver as he said , ‘ Either you give me permission freely to go with Mick tomorrow or I go down now and put it to Martin . ’ |
| 29 | Each meeting ends with the moneymen all saying things like I 'm in or I want in on this or You got it or Let's do it . |
| 30 | ‘ Or , ’ he demanded harshly , ‘ do you have someone other than me lined up to pay your mortgage ? ’ |