Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] i [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I turn for where I remember the door to be and see others pitching forward , slamming drinks down to cover their faces with their hands . |
| 2 | Or should I perhaps sit down in Salzburg with the empty hope of some better fortune , let Wolfgang grow up , and allow myself and my children to be made fools of until I reach the age which prevents me from travelling and until he attains the age and physical appearance which no longer attract admiration for his merits ? |
| 3 | Doubting whether the traffic jam would have cleared by Wednesday , I finally arrived in time to miss my dental appointment and searched my mind for something pleasant to think of as I rejoined the traffic and inched my way back to the cottage . |
| 4 | All I remember thinking of as I pushed the trolley and looked at the red face and eyebrows was , My friend , you are about to take the longest journey a man ever takes in this life . |
| 5 | But we 've got sort of as I say the daffodils out there and |
| 6 | a very uncomfortable thing for me occurred — There were quite enough queens to register Casanova impotent , and yet every one of them shied away from me as if I had the plague . |
| 7 | ‘ But that would look rude — as if I thought the house was n't warm enough , which it really is with all that paraffin burning away . ’ |
| 8 | It might have looked as if I wanted the bloody money ! ’ |
| 9 | Modi also liked his food smothered in garlic : ‘ when I eat garlic it 's as if I kiss the mouth of the woman I love . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It was not as if I needed the money . |
| 11 | Or , apropos of the necessity of having a good historical imagination when reading , ‘ I had much rather know what I should feel like if I adopted the beliefs of Lucretius than how Lucretius would have felt if he had never entertained them . ’ |
| 12 | alright well I 'll have a I 'll have another chat with when I get the flipping chance and then |
| 13 | We stayed in that house till I were eight year old and then we were went on to where I lived the rest of my time and that would have been from nineteen twenty to oh a couple of year ago . |
| 14 | The King 's mail never seemed to catch up with him , and now I did n't want Charlie to find out what I had been up to until I had the chance to witness his reaction for myself . |
| 15 | And , of course , I gradually built up then to until I got the er the main overall jobs , and er w by the time I was twenty one , of course , I was considered a full waggon repairer . |
| 16 | It 's very tempting to go into the desert with a bag of mushrooms right now , but I 'm not going to because I want the experience to be real . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ And was n't even trying to when I posted the Normans behind him . |