Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I took to be failures were not my failures but simply where I failed to fit in with what others expected of me . |
| 2 | So I tended to stick with how things had been ; it was more comforting to think I 'd be able to pick up where I 'd left off . |
| 3 | That was the filthy coastal town smelling of fish oil where I 'd taken over the driving . |
| 4 | Perhaps one day I would go back to London , and take up my career where I had left off . |
| 5 | TO ARRIVE from London at Chesterfield station in Derbyshire — avoiding the gents ' toilet , where I have slipped up before — and then , after admiring the celebrated crooked spire , to find myself , within a few minutes , in the rugged landscape of the Peak , is an exhilarating experience . |
| 6 | Or I keep getting up . |
| 7 | A more substantial objection is why neither Karen nor I had dived in to try and save Dennis . |
| 8 | She paused and added thoughtfully , ‘ It 's strange , but although I 've stayed down here a lot I 've never met him , but perhaps that 's because his wife was an invalid and he devoted all his time to her . |
| 9 | Although I 've worked in nearly all the departments you do n't really get to know the people that well . |
| 10 | He said of the Coronation poster : ‘ I always thought the idea for that poster was the apogee of my career as a copywriter because , although I enjoyed thinking up ideas , I always founding writing copy very hard work . ’ |
| 11 | The problems of Russia suddenly became topical two years ago at school , and although I 'd grown up with a faint mistrust of ‘ Commies ’ , in 1988 I started writing to Murat , a young Russian . |
| 12 | I have not been able to find any reference to pruning it , although I have cut out any dead wood found in the spring . |
| 13 | Although I did phone up to protest about what Brian Clough was at , when he dropped Bremner and Clarke in favour of McGovern and O'Hare . |
| 14 | Although I wanted to go down the pit because you got more money you see . |
| 15 | Although I wanted to rush back upstairs and read the letter straight away I decided to hold onto it and read it later . |
| 16 | Er that I remember come in laughing saying that he had no kitchen for him for her . |
| 17 | And now that I come to think back , ’ said Cadfael , shaking his head between doubt and conviction , ‘ that wind that blew in was gone before ever the page settled . |
| 18 | I 'm not claiming that these are the ‘ best ’ ( whatever that can mean in terms of music ) solos I have ever heard , or even the best players — just the records that I 've kept on coming back to over the years . |
| 19 | It 's , it 's the things that I 've written down quickly . |
| 20 | I keep a record of the book number that you are given , that 's another record that I 've written down here , and then I keep , within that record , I keep details of your marks all the way across , what I gave you for your erm attainment and effort grades progress checks , your exam marks and so on . |
| 21 | Now , if you look at Example 2 , you 'll see that I 've written out the same scale pattern in thirds . |
| 22 | aye , let's have a separate meeting on that I mean I 've largely left it up to and and one or two others that I 've met up there |
| 23 | Taylor said enthusiastically : ‘ After the win against Turkey , it was the first time since I 've been England manager that I 've gone back into the dressing room and felt the emotions I did as a club manager . |
| 24 | Not s in a sense just by individual feudal landlords , but by landlords saying well I 'm , I 'm not really feudal anyway , that I 've moved on from that , I am a commercial landlord rather than a feudal landlord . |
| 25 | I can not believe that I 've cut up the dress he used to love me to wear and all I get for thanks is cheek . |
| 26 | I mean this is just the areas that I 've touched on , and again it 's in many cases it 's only fringe . |
| 27 | There was an abortive attempt at a ‘ Maureen Lipman says write to me about your washing problems ’ which made me squirm with embarrassment to the extent that I 've blocked out the name of the liquid detergent concerned . |
| 28 | He could take her away , I thought , he could just do that , he has such power to hurt me , this little furry creature who has n't even noticed that I 've given up the weed . |
| 29 | He 's so good that I 've ended up basing all my choreography around him . ’ |
| 30 | Secondly , if they accept those arguments , then before anything becomes public I then need to embark on a process of consultation with the residents themselves and with their relatives and with their staff , so that we can explain it carefully to them — what it 'll involve , the time scale , what their options are going to be , how we 'll go through this process and all the rest of it , all the ins and outs , and then I shall have to then go formally to a special meeting of the Social Services Committee , probably in April , to say that I 've carried out this consultation , that this is my recommendation as to the home the Council should choose , and if they agree that then we move into implementation . |