Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] i [verb] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't want John thinking that I said he would get her one . |
| 2 | An Amex gold card that I suspect he ca n't use . |
| 3 | David and I did have conversations about it and I told David that I thought he should get an accountant , or that he should ask for an account from Tony if he had questions about where money was going . |
| 4 | The way people talk over here is pure poetry and nobody is really using that in songs so I thought I 'd have a go . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 've got so many pictures that I thought I 'd have a clear out ’ , she explains , surrounded by the sale items which represent months of hard work . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've got so many pictures that I thought I 'd have a clear out ’ , she explains , surrounded by the sale items which represent months of hard work . |
| 7 | The working party on Equal Opportunities that I said I would convene ? |
| 8 | As I was applying to art school I needed a reference so I told Vivienne that I thought I 'd ask Malcolm , since he was my employer . |
| 9 | The first guest tutor will advise on self-defence and I know you will all welcome the opportunity to become more ‘ Street-wise ’ at a time when attacks on women are so common . |
| 10 | ‘ Away , ’ came the enigmatic reply and I knew I would learn nothing more until I arrived . |
| 11 | I found it an impressive programme and I hope it will not lead Mr Heseltine to conclude that chess sets are less harmful potentially than television sets . |
| 12 | We 're , working on an hotel project I think and we 're up to week thirteen on the programme and I think you might be able to see on week thirteen and given the information we 've got at the moment as well , it means we 're gon na be working on three floors at once so it was the first thing to identify . |
| 13 | Chatham has attractions and I think they would try and carry on , but the impact of the injunction sought on their businesses would be very significant and the probability must be that they would have to cease operations . |
| 14 | This is something we said we were going to discuss at a time in the future and I thought I 'd stick it on and see how much time we 'd got left . |
| 15 | Okay my mum would phone up and go walk her walk to school with Alex on Friday and I think he might try something . |
| 16 | actually we , mm , at some length and had a few ideas , erm I 've got an appointment with someone at the Arts Council in a couple of weeks that the Arts Council 's got a new fund called erm consultants in research and I thought I 'd make a bid to see if we can get someone |
| 17 | He 's taking a few days ’ vacation out there , right now , so Pat and I thought it would be a good idea to let Fred Klepner stand in . |
| 18 | If you look around there a lot more physicists who are Christian than people taking the arts subjects and I reckon it could be that the arts bombard you with a lot of different views and maybe you find it hard to crystallize to say what you want ; whereas in physics we get told precisely the answer and we realize that we do n't understand it totally . |
| 19 | and he went straight back to his study and I thought I 'd go and see him because my parents had gone |
| 20 | Neither was listening to the other talk and I thought it would be a good moment to fetch the rhubarb tart . |
| 21 | I mean I think it 's the class thing as well really , because I can remember when I was erm leaving school erm and I went to the careers erm teacher for my interview and I said I 'd like to be a journalist and she looked at me and I came from a very poor working class background in Tottenham , and she said ‘ I 'm sure you could be a secretary or a shorthand typist if you really tried ’ . |
| 22 | I 'd done my apprenticeship and I knew I could do a good job . ’ |
| 23 | I mean I had them in my erm handbag and I think I must have just chucked them out this morning |
| 24 | In Picasso 's subsequent move towards a more abstract kind of painting , the work of Braque may once again have been a stimulus , and Picasso 's remark to Braque , quoted by Michel Georges-Michel , ‘ I have tried your methods and I feel one can do excellent things with them ’ was perhaps made in connection with the new kind of painting Braque had invented in his still lifes of the first half of 1910 . |
| 25 | Foreshadowing the pressure his party will exert on Labour , Mr Ashdown said at a news conference in the National Liberal Club in London yesterday : ‘ I think they 've got to get down off the fence and I believe they will . ’ |
| 26 | Foreshadowing the pressure that the Liberal Democrats will exert on Labour , Mr Ashdown said at a news conference in the National Liberal Club in London yesterday : ‘ I think they 've got to get down off the fence and I believe they will . ’ |
| 27 | So could you phone up er your office because I cleared the fact that we can pay with this card cos I thought you might look at this and say well look it 's expired . |
| 28 | ‘ We returned from our holiday in Hungary and I felt I must write to you . |
| 29 | She told an audience of deaf and hearing people : ‘ I am very happy to be here at the launch of the dictionary and I hope it will help people to greater interaction . ’ |
| 30 | I beat him once in the 1988 Olympics and I know I can beat him again . ’ |