Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At 5pm that day I went along to Anouska Hempel 's very individual and attractive showroom at 2 Pond Place , Chelsea , where I saw her really lovely couture collection , for which she derived the inspiration from Eastern Europe . |
| 2 | Where I find him occasionally disappointing is in the dreamier world of the Gymnopédies and the more intriguing Sonneries de la Rose Croix ( one of the composer 's Rosicrucian works ) . |
| 3 | PS JOANNE … could you send me your fax number again if you still need the telegraph thing , the number you gave before is wrong — or I copied it down wrong . |
| 4 | Or I get it off our old lady . |
| 5 | The sort of stuff that you get in in y'know sort of everyday gossip between friends about y'know when people talk about each- other , oh I think he 's a bit er I think he 's a bit camp , or I think he probably is but erm yeah yeah all that kind of thing yeah erm is is like the the informal repertoire , the informal repertoire that you do between friends erm , between people to whom it sort of y'know it 's not very important if you give them the wrong impression sort of thing . |
| 6 | ‘ I was always drifting off and losing myself in my head , which I suppose is no different to anyone else except I carried it further , wrote it all down . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ He 's not easy to describe , although I remember him perfectly . |
| 8 | The girl that did most of the kissing was the worst kisser , I wo n't say her name although I remember it well . |
| 9 | Now going back to this handicraft , although I said I really did n't want to be committed to all the meetings , I 'm quite happy to carry on with the handicraft , providing you do n't expect me to turn up at every meeting . |
| 10 | But although I chose it virtually at random , this does not make it ‘ typical ’ , any more than the horrific Bihar gaol described by Sinha ( 1978 ) in which 143 people had died within three years . |
| 11 | ‘ I think , Mr Boldwood , that although I respect you very much , I do n't feel — enough for you — to accept your proposal . ’ |
| 12 | John explained in a programme note that he had tried ‘ to get the robustness of the early eighteenth century as well as the extremely mannered movements of the period ’ and , although I saw it once only , memory suggests that he succeeded to good effect . |
| 13 | I did n't think too much about this at the time , although I knew they usually only had money for their ‘ little pleasures ’ after they 'd done the washing and pawned it . |
| 14 | Although I knew I probably should n't , I could n't help looking as he rummaged through the marvellous things in the cupboard . |
| 15 | Although I loved him dearly , he was a bit of a rascal and liked the drink far too much . |
| 16 | although I guess it probably always is , and er |
| 17 | I laughed sometimes when he chased intruders from the garden , but I wished he had n't been aware of the little cat , although I think he only wanted to frighten it away , not kill it . |
| 18 | He was talented enough and resourceful enough to survive it , although I think it almost devastated and destroyed him at a certain point . |
| 19 | I like the self- portrait by him at 21 , although I found it quite depressing , he was only 21 and it 's absolutely fabulous ! |
| 20 | This study might appear one sided with more detail about ‘ Anna Karenina ’ but I think it is inevitable and although I found it quite hard to compare such different styles , I enjoyed reading and studying both . |
| 21 | Again , although I visited her regularly , taking little presents ; remembered her birthday and saw to it that her sons did the same ; looked after her once when she was ill ; and respected my husband 's love for her , I did not take much notice of her suggestions : ‘ My mother seems to think … |
| 22 | A Swordtails will be fine with your selection of fish , although I suggest you only keep one male and three or four females . |
| 23 | You see , although I love her so deeply , I know that Rosamund would not make a good wife for a missionary . ’ |
| 24 | It is only after listening again to my tape-recording of our meeting that I hear him eventually say in his educated , upper-class Dublin accent : ‘ Well , over 90 per cent of people who get raped are not injured in that rape . ’ |
| 25 | It was years later that I realised I really would have to tackle it , but I found it was much easier than I had expected . |
| 26 | I am not sure now if I ever proceeded to knock ; it is quite possible , given the alarming nature of what I heard , that I judged it best to withdraw altogether . |
| 27 | However , during our visit to India he had been constantly with us , and in Jaipur I had experienced a gratifying sense of shared adventure ; but it was perhaps in the camp where we went each year from the Legation for an eagerly awaited ten days that I remember him most vividly . |
| 28 | The point of this is not the trivial name involved , but the fact that I remember it so clearly . |
| 29 | Then I saw Mr Shepherd — and he looked so — so strange that I kissed him too . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I would have thought that I knew him fairly well , but in writing the lyrics I found depths I had never contemplated . ’ |