Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw a Mummy examined that had been embalmed for 2,000 years ; the embalmer had taken out all the Viscera of the head , Thorax and Abdomen and cut all the flesh off the bones , and the cavities of the Thorax & Abdomen were filled up with Tar , Pitch & c and the form of the leg , Thigh & c were altogether made up of linen Rags dipp 'd in Tar , Pitch , & c so that I have an Opinion that they were allow 'd to carry the dead Body home by pretending to embalm it to preserve the Flesh & c , but you see they either buried or burnt the Flesh : this art always ‘ till lately appeared to me ridiculous as I know how soon putrefaction took place after Death ; since that time I have often thought it would be pleasing if we could fall upon a method of preserving dead Bodies & I thought that mankind in general would wish to have the Bodies of their Friends & c Preserved . |
| 2 | After sailing all day , I reached a small island , where I slept that night . |
| 3 | Perhaps you can guess exactly where I fell that night . |
| 4 | When I got into Holloway they have them little forms and they 've got pictures of a body with all arrows and everything , and where I had any bruises the doctor put these marks . |
| 5 | I visited the local teacher 's centre where I discussed this self-evaluation project and other similar projects with the warden . |
| 6 | What is meant by ‘ the computational mechanisms involved in sensory perception in general ’ will be clarified in the next section , where I discuss some AI ideas bearing on the puzzles about the kingfisher 's perceptual competence that were listed above . |
| 7 | I do not merely spend time in Manchester — where I spend more time than anywhere else outside London and my constituency , which is my home town . |
| 8 | But they should know that anyway , or I made that point yesterday , so er th the point they quoted was that erm erm rang up the team and got told no you 've got ta put it on a fax , find it hard to believe that that was if that was the manager on the phone but it 's just important that the people on the team know who the senior managers are . |
| 9 | ‘ It was n't because I saw some guy and said , ‘ Hey , he gets a lot of girls , ’ or I saw some guy and said , ‘ Man , I want to be that guy , ’ because there 's no-one on earth I want to be . |
| 10 | What I 'm looking for is feedback from the clients which say , yeah , these reports are alright as far as they go but really I do n't want all that information or I want this information . |
| 11 | Or I have some vodka in the fridge . |
| 12 | ‘ Neither my brothers or sister or I have any children , ’ said Pakeezah when her mother had finished telling the story . |
| 13 | And weirdest of all , this is the exact same haunting sound — like , a lavish , moody synth swell with ghostly piano tones , Diane — that we hear whenever Sheriff Truman or I discover another lead . |
| 14 | And weirdest of all , this is the exact same haunting sound — like , a lavish , moody synth swell with ghostly piano tones , Diane — that we hear whenever Sheriff Truman or I discover another lead . |
| 15 | Neither my right hon. Friend nor I have any plan to meet a delegation of members of the campaign for Clydeside against pollution . |
| 16 | ‘ As you well know , Polly , neither Lord Byron nor I have any sense of humour , being British , ’ said Shelley . |
| 17 | Neither you nor I have any claim on this house , and you know it . |
| 18 | Neither John nor I have any objection to use of his history , especially if the information is of benefit to someone else . |
| 19 | Not to interrupt 'cause I call that treason |
| 20 | But , although I heard that music , I never saw it as the kind of music I 'd be involved in And that was because Kensal Green was a deprived place and the most deprived people were the blacks . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've never been scared to wear hats , although I know some people are . |
| 22 | Erm but to be honest I , I think you 're right about the Christian angle because I do think that erm , although I enjoyed that year , |
| 23 | ALTHOUGH I welcome any move towards a more open society I am a little disturbed by the relentless way in which childhood is being forced to be politically correct . |
| 24 | My hon. Friend is entirely correct and it would be as well if the House bore that important fact in mind when considering some of the allegations that are made — although I hope this afternoon for a more responsible tone in the remarks of the hon. Member for Sedgefield . |
| 25 | He also distributed library books to those who asked for them — although I saw few books in the cells or barracks and it was stated that few prisoners were interested in reading . |
| 26 | Then the strategy ‘ cooperate with your neighbour if he cooperates ; otherwise defect ’ would be an ESS , although I have some difficulty in seeing how it would evolve in the first place . |
| 27 | ‘ I do get nervous and do really dumb things , although I think some men actually like that . ’ |
| 28 | I like the way they splice on their headstocks ( almost invisibly underneath the headstock facing ) but not the way they make up the depth of the heel with a very different-coloured piece of mahogany — although I suppose some people might . |
| 29 | The plates still had some food on them but although I found some meat , it had a strange gloopy liquid on it so I gave it a miss . |
| 30 | In fact , there , that that , that 's that printing of s , that shape of s , followed by a t , was still used by some printers right up until the twentieth century , because it 's actually , you know that when when prints , print was put together by hand , by picking up each letter erm , and as assembling it separately , there was actually always a stop letter , a stop erm , I ca n't remember what it 's called , although I did some printing years ago , erm , lump a die thing with s t already printed together , because because s t is used so much in combination , the erm , printer did n't always have to set up s followed by a t , but had a rack of s t's already prepared and they were often , virtually joined together in this way , and erm , I got , I got an edition of I think it 's the novels of Jane Austen printed in the nineteen twenties which still use that shape of s t but used as the small s for any other forms . |