Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I finished my list of demands and took it to the Branch Office , where I received something of a hero 's welcome . |
| 2 | I then went to Coventry Belgrade for six months , where I did everything from Malcolm in Macbeth to the play Charlie 's Aunt . |
| 3 | Looking back on the elements I have enumerated — of change , internationalism and achievement — I do not find it so surprising that I chose an industrial career , although I knew nothing of all this when I joined ICI . |
| 4 | Although I remained something of an outsider to the M.I.T. philosophy as it was at that time , I carried something of this arrogance back to England with me . |
| 5 | Erm I 'm always overjoyed when people say things like that to me , that you 've just said , er but I think I understand acting more than I understand anything in the world . |
| 6 | My disability makes this rather a slow process , so I had plenty of time . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd spent two years at Stanford University Press , so I knew something about price ceilings . ’ |
| 8 | I thought the best thing to do was spare Oliver 's blushes , so I murmured something about getting off to work . |
| 9 | The males started fighting , so I moved one to another tank , leaving two females with one male . |
| 10 | I was convinced that the law would back us , so I found someone at a local law centre and she confirmed it , so we went back . |
| 11 | He warned me that if I told anyone about it , he would just deny it outright . |
| 12 | But if I met , but then that 's slightly different because if I met someone in a nightclub or something like that then I would be quite wary . |
| 13 | Christ , I even broke out into a sweat if I saw one on TV . |
| 14 | So er to get to your question erm I 've sort of not been doing anything erm I was hoping that I would be sort of fully fit round about now and then if I saw something on teletext er that was good I 'd just buzz off for a week or so . |
| 15 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 16 | as if I knew nothing about art . |
| 17 | ‘ No , ’ she said , then she asked me if I knew anything about them . |
| 18 | He asked me if I knew anything about ley lines and I confessed my ignorance . |
| 19 | And if Heather thought there was something sinister about her relationship with Jack Cornelius — assuming there was a relationship — why did she never ask me if I knew anything about it ? ’ |
| 20 | If I take if I take one at night |
| 21 | If I get something on one of them to s to look as though I 've |
| 22 | It was just , I wondered if , so if I get something along this line , I mean I can cope with something like this . |
| 23 | ‘ If I hear anything about Pascoe I 'll pass it on . ’ |
| 24 | Dana continually hinted that she would take off for London if I refused to do just what she wanted , or if I said anything to you . |
| 25 | I mean , if I said anything to you . |
| 26 | So , if I 've nothing in these first four cells , and something in that one , and something in that one and nothing below . |
| 27 | Wing Commander the Duke of Hamilton replied : ‘ My instructions are to let it run its course as if I know nothing at all about it . |
| 28 | That poor girl has been through a terrible ordeal , and if I know anything of gipsies , it 's not over for her yet . ’ |
| 29 | And not on me clothes either , not if I know anything about it . |
| 30 | If I know anything about it , I 'll be well and truly mobile by then . ’ |