Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the little white house in the almond and lemon country of South-Eastern Spain where I stayed last summer every midday meal started with the tomato and onion salad . |
| 2 | Although I came third out of fifty folk competing for established status by examination , it was no good , only one candidate was accepted . |
| 3 | So the problem is greater than I had first thought . |
| 4 | ‘ This might be a lot more tricky than I had first supposed . |
| 5 | It is a far more complex matter than I had first thought ’ . |
| 6 | Er a a and with a family row in in it as well you can imagine the work involved was a bit more than initially might have been expected and I got criticized because the bill was bigger than I had first estimated cos I did n't expect there 'd be trouble from the father . |
| 7 | ‘ In fact , I would say I now have a far stronger squad than I had last year and it is n't costing as much . ’ |
| 8 | So how is it that I , a pensioner earning half that sum , will pay more tax should he win the election than I did last year ? |
| 9 | Better tonight than I did last night . |
| 10 | If I took First B. Mus. at the College I could go to Oxford and take Second B. Mus. there , and afterwards write my Exercise — as that was financially possible for them . |
| 11 | ‘ I thought if I got next door , we might get talking , perhaps get back together . |
| 12 | I end up in exactly the same spot as if I had first walked four paces due east ( which is one sort of displacement , an easterly sort ) and then three paces due north ( which is another sort of displacement , a northerly sort ) . |
| 13 | I hope that the right hon. and learned Gentleman will forgive me if I answer first the points made by my hon. Friend the Member for Westminster , North ( Sir J. Wheeler ) , who supported the Government 's position , before answering the remarks made by Opposition Members , who took a rather different line . |
| 14 | If I put first class on here . |
| 15 | ‘ Look , if I live next door to an enemy and he has a knife , a gun and a machine gun and I 've got the same , I 'm not going to chuck mine before he chucks his . |
| 16 | but if I work next week I 'm due a day off . |
| 17 | Like I said last week , I would go for Andy Hinchcliffe down the left instead of Peter Beagrie . |
| 18 | Well she , like I say next year , if they 're not paying double time she 's gon na get no one to work is she ? |
| 19 | Cos I know Twelfth Night , so |
| 20 | cos I went last night . |
| 21 | Cos I think last time we hired them from Staffordshire and I 'd have thought if they 're going to buy some they will be very happy to hire us them . |
| 22 | Cos I suggested next Friday and you said |
| 23 | McFarlane won the race and earned selection , while I finished fourth . |
| 24 | In the early days I had been a bit disappointed that the NUJ had n't immediately leapt to John 's defence , but ever since I had first been to see the General Secretary , Harry Conroy , and his assistant , Tom Nash , the union had done what it could to respond to what was asked of them . |
| 25 | I though of Poppy and was surprised to find that the fever that had raged in my blood since I had first seen her was n't there any more . |
| 26 | It was quite some time since I had last played and , inhaling huge lungfuls of air as I did so , I looked forward keenly to demolishing my opponent with my supra-sonic service , my cunning topspins , bottomspins , sidespins , every-this-and-thatspins . |
| 27 | The deterioration in my companion 's movements in the few weeks since I had last seen him was distressing to observe . |
| 28 | During the six months since I had last seen him , Mr Broadhurst had undergone a further metamorphosis and this time the change was more radical , more entire , than ever before . |
| 29 | I was n't prepared for what had happened to her in the year since I had last seen her . |
| 30 | Something perhaps since I have last seen you . |