Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [adj] [noun] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was lucky to move on from Manchester City Art Galleries where after seventeen years I ended up as Senior Keeper of Fine Art . |
| 2 | On the Callanish moorland there are not many features , except for one thing I will tell you about soon . |
| 3 | SIR — Although like most MPs I accept the principle that a majority of one is enough , I find it difficult to explain to my Southend Conservative supporters who have phoned me why your paper takes the view that there was a 4.43 per cent swing from Conservative to Labour in our constituency . |
| 4 | So it was that although in those days I was often homesick , missing Harry , missing Daisy , it was never unbearable . |
| 5 | There is no need to be too rigid in your choice of material for each season , unless you feel it is important , but nevertheless you should still maintain the overall feeling of each season , although in some cases I chose a few out-of-season flowers to give a better colour or shape . |
| 6 | Although in this article I am talking specifically about green manures for winter the same principle applies during the remainder of the year . |
| 7 | I have always had reasonable live-in accommodation ( having inspected it before accepting a position ) and , although on certain days I have worked non-stop , on others I have been very quiet and still received the same salary . |
| 8 | As the days passed I might have been telling him the truth , for I lost weight far more successfully than on any diet I have ever attempted . |
| 9 | ‘ What eventually swayed me was the fact that Hibs were a big club with a greater potential support , although at that point I probably had a better squad of players in Paisley . |
| 10 | During the first consultation a great deal of time was taken up listening to Maxine 's story and reassuring her that her problem was not incapable of being solved , although at that stage I was not quite certain how long this would take . |
| 11 | While in hospital I had mentioned to my surgeon that I intended to go to the Bristol Cancer Help Centre , although at that time I had not actually made up my mind . |
| 12 | Coincidentally I 'd just told Malcolm that I was a bass player — although at this point I was only mucking around by myself at home — so Malcolm told them . |
| 13 | If for any reason I had to spend the night in town and my friend Wilma could n't have me , I could stay there very cheaply with the girls . |
| 14 | So if for any reason I feel like adding on some points I will do , and equally I 'll decide to take some points off if I feel like it . |
| 15 | If for some reason I ca n't get here |
| 16 | I handed in Matchbox , cos for some reason I still had it . |
| 17 | If after this time I wish to cancel , I will do so by giving one month 's notice in writing . |
| 18 | but I know it cos the other week when I had to work till half past eight for Peter , he was having a dinner party and erm we went down there , I had to go shopping with him , he made me die cos he asked me if I 'd work a bit later and I said yeah I need the money , so I 'll work later so er he made me die because he said in this flare up , this argument when when I worked that day , I mean , I worked all day , I had nothing to eat and I could n't eat af , you know , cos of this trouble I could n't eat after |
| 19 | I sometimes think , he wrote , that if in one sense I am back in the nursery trying to make a big toy with nothing but wood and string , in another I am back in the classroom fiddling with bunsen burners while Mr Alexander walks round sniffing with his long distinguished nose in the air . |
| 20 | No longer young myself , I feel as if in some respects I was never young . |
| 21 | And when I think of my daughters growing up in that atmosphere , in that society , I feel I must try to avoid it if in any way I can . |
| 22 | Cos in one respect I 'd rather do what I think is enough but er than too much and then feel like a bloated little |
| 23 | ‘ So my career had begun , even if at that stage I had no intention of prolonging it . |
| 24 | It may be helpful if at this point I pull together the underlying theme of the latter part of this chapter with the help of a schema . |
| 25 | I thought my boyfriend would make sure that he knew what he was doing , " cos at that time I did n't know what I was letting myself in for and also because he was nineteen I said to myself that he was more responsible . |
| 26 | Cos at any time I mean , if we 're here I mean there 's always someone in cos I 'm working nights so I 'm here in the days . |
| 27 | She snatched her coat off the kitchen table and stormed out of the kitchen , shouting , ‘ And if by any chance I do need an escort , it wo n't be my bloody brother . |
| 28 | because for eighteen months I mean there was this sledgehammer and all you could hear was boom , boom |
| 29 | Yeah , its within your budget and you 've done well , I went over budget , but then I expected I would , because for one thing I was buying for more . |
| 30 | My infidelity is at last exposed — all because of that Casebook I opened up , revealing some of the highlights of my 40 years as the Mirror 's Marje . |