Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb base] i [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rev Jim Caterer , vicar of Standish , said : ‘ I never say something is impossible but in this case I wish I could say just that . |
| 2 | In any case I think I can answer your questions without disturbing her . ’ |
| 3 | Em I think I 'll talk to you now |
| 4 | Anyway i , d' you wan na use your hose I mean I 'll put the car in the garage if you do . |
| 5 | ‘ I like the inside lanes , and if I get the right lane I think I can go under 20 seconds . |
| 6 | I need bereavement , blackmail , earthquake , leprosy , injury , penury I think I 'll try stress . |
| 7 | Well , having talked about my interest in , in popular literature I suppose I should begin by saying I do n't much like the distinction between good literature and pulp literature but , on the other hand , I do accept that it has a function . |
| 8 | And er they happen came along er to tell us about the Aberystwyth trip we went off to Aberystwyth the students gave us a party and he said , Oh I like your meetings I wish I could come here more often . |
| 9 | Not not not a great deal I mean I 'd like possibly to try and stay in erm the field of archaeology to some |
| 10 | ‘ I get lots of film synopses sent to me and after this movie I hope I will get a lot more . |
| 11 | think to myself well it 's six months I wish I 'd have done it in August , now . |
| 12 | within six months I know I 'll have no more money problems . |
| 13 | They bring me dogs bones for the dogs and they like talking to my parrot I wish I could get rid of the bleeding thing though . |
| 14 | Actually Milky Bar I think I 'd prefer that tonight . |
| 15 | ‘ As chairman of the community services committee I believe I should go to see all the community centres in Belfast as Seamus Lynch did when he was chairman . ’ |
| 16 | Well old was , was er absolute er you 'd never think anybody 'd would buy anything out of his shop , er my father went in for something once and he , and he said you can see them hanging up ca n't you , I mean er salesmanship was on unheard of as far as he was concerned they were there , why ask him if he 'd got any , but erm course you must remember I was only a little boy I mean I can remember all this , I took it all in but I would n't say that I knew them er I knew Miss , from the grocer 's shop she was a Sunday School teacher , and er the Sunday School used to be at Road School we used to have a Sunday School there and a Mr used to take this . |
| 17 | if the ban on those of us who went to South Africa with Mike Gatting is lifted in July I believe I can win back a place in the England side . |
| 18 | As a child I remember I used to call my mother at home , ‘ mammy up the raw ’ , and grandma was ‘ mammy down the raw' … |
| 19 | That question I think I can answer . |
| 20 | ‘ And of course you imagine I would stay still and do nothing ? ’ |
| 21 | For a moment I think I might walk up the steps and ring the bell . |
| 22 | ‘ It is the sort of place I know I can do well at , but it is also an unusual sort of circuit too . |
| 23 | Food 's the only place I find I can tighten up . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's funny , ’ she said , ‘ but it 's the only place I feel I 'd like to stay . |
| 25 | In my childish days I remember I used to fear to touch the little girls ' sleeves ; so it is now . |
| 26 | HAVING watched Carrick Rangers through the years from as far back as the B Division days I feel I must comment on the pathetic lack of support given to the manager by the board . |
| 27 | In those days I think I must have regarded many of the people dotted about my landscape more as bushes than as the human beings I now see them to have been : some dull and uninteresting like laurel bushes ; some like lavender sweetly scented ; some thorny , to be avoided ; and then rose bushes , gooseberry bushes , fuchsia bushes — but all just part of the scenery , and I withdrawn from them into my dreams . |
| 28 | Oh no it 's the match I think I can smell . |
| 29 | And there 's another point I think I shall bring out in my book . |
| 30 | erm , where I set out my interpretation of what that means , and I do n't think it 's very helpful to read that out to you , but I think you will find that it 's er erm a very broad er description of what the new settlement should be seeking to achieve , now Mr erm I think has misunderstood our position on this question of erm the appropriate size for the new settlement , and I think if I 'm correct he suggested that we were promoting a a size of fourteen hundred , the point I think I would make is that the larger the new settlement erm the greater the range and the quality of services and facilities that can be provided , and I think you have to distinguish between what developers say they are prepared to provide , on the one hand in a new settlement , whatever the size , the quality of the retail or recreational social facility that occupies that physical provision , and also its long term viability , and I would suggest that a larger new settlement of the size that we are suggesting , is much more likely to er attract a range of quality providers of services and facilities than a smaller new settlement , and also Mr Grantham er raised the issue of the question of the development program , and what might be expected in terms of services and erm during the development program , and of course I think that would be a matter for any specific proposal , or a ma a matter of discussion between the local planning authority concerned and the developer , and I would expect it to be something erm that was included within a section one O six agreement . |