Example sentences of "i [verb] [conj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In August I revealed that Prime Minister 's son James Major had a £3-an-hour holiday job .
2 I , hope , too , that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State will address the technical problems of billing , particularly carry-over yearly billing , to avoid current confusion with many charge payers , because I regret that separate billing has not increased accountability .
3 Drawing nearer , I realized that warm air had twisted their outline — they were two men using scythes , no , garden rakes .
4 But , gradually , I realised that kinky underwear gives me sexual freedom .
5 but I realised that big weight losses often happen to very overweight people at the beginning of their diets , so I did n't expect to continue at anything like that pace .
6 First my father 's plans for my marrying a French princess , precluded my offering you anything more than a clandestine attachment — and now , with the future so uncertain , I fear that clandestine attachment and French princess are each as remote as the other .
7 I lack that biological instinct which makes most women want to reproduce themselves , especially when they are in their thirties and feel they might be leaving things a bit late .
8 I met that young man Billy Sullivan in the park the other day , ’ Annie said casually , wanting to glean some information about him .
9 Well it does n't really matter because I got and unused socket here .
10 I hate that black velvet on the chairs and sofa .
11 After tonight , I realise that real life is what matters .
12 Have nasty moment in bathroom before I realise that recycled bog paper is full of eccentric imperfections .
13 I tried that 26-letter word on my ‘ spellchecker ’ : it paused for a moment , then put up its hands with ‘ sorry , no suggestions ’ .
14 I expect that experienced knitter will have tried most , if not all , of these but I know that there are lots of new knitters who have not .
15 I found that moderate slip angles produce no nasty consequences , but was restrained from further experimentation with the admonition that the aircraft describes what sounds like a brisk departure into a fast outside flick roll with the nose going hard down to exceed its negative-g limit .
16 In October I reported that British designer Carolyn Quartermaine had landed a top assignment with an internationally known New York-based designer .
17 With this in mind , when considering situations where there are questions about very long term service lives , I suggest that current construction methods should not make it too difficult to incorporate any presently unthought of developments that might materialise in the future — be this in 20 or even 100 years time !
18 Venturing to propound a law of intellectual life , I suggest that evaluative criticism enters institutional literary study under the influence of practising writers , or of critics who have a close discipular relation to them , but that in time it is rejected , like an alien organ .
19 How was I to know that stupid woman would call the police ? ’
20 If I used that particular eyepiece on my 76-mm refractor , I would still obtain a magnification of around × 600 — but the image would be so faint that it would be completely useless .
21 I assumed that open string resonance must be enhanced by this .
22 I told that miserable bloke who looks after the lorries the same fing meself , ’ she told her friends .
23 They were a delight for the charterers in the Bahamian lagoons , but in an Atlantic storm such wide windows could be our death warrants for if Wavebreaker fell off a big wave the glass could be driven out of the windows and the boat be filling with water in seconds , and so I cut and shaped sheet steel shutters that could be bolted over the boat 's glass at the first sign of bad weather .
24 How longingly I recalled that other bed , with Sophocles beside it and Mary in it , as I camped out on unsavoury sacks among the dregs of humanity who were my new companions !
25 At this unhappy moment , I recalled that mysterious sentence , ‘ Wallace and Darwin did not know it , but there are alternatives . ’
26 I imagine that rearranging furniture will give me room to think more spaciously .
27 True , four track is a mite limiting , but I imagine that live performance was again uppermost in Roland 's mind here .
28 I feel like I done when Slippery Sun
29 Mr Badran , who was seeking a vote of confidence from the newly elected parliament , said : ‘ I announce that martial law is now considered frozen … until such laws are constitutionally abolished in the near future . ’
30 I hope that Catholic Woman , as it develops , will encourage all Catholic women … single , religious and married … to see the significance of what they already do and the potential which they can yet realise , both in the Church and in society .
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