Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun sg] i [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This piece of information I gave him with a triumphant smile . |
| 2 | , look at the sentence below , will the management charges greatly increase , the answers no because time has shown the management charges rise at a rate below the level of inflation I suggest it to you to the ordinary person , they would think that the management charges there meant the costs that are listed above see |
| 3 | Mr Chairman this little job will save a bit of time I think we 've had er an amendment set by the , the Labour group for work demands through requests er , we want er support er what Simon what Simon is making here so we er we 're making here so we erm small |
| 4 | I do n't know , I want to find out if I do really believe what I say I do and if I want the kind of life I say I do , and the only way to do that seems to be to get right away and try a straight career for a bit , just to see how I react . ’ |
| 5 | When my Noble Friend was kind enough to say that he looked to me for help as being I think he said an ornament on the front bench , was n't quite certain whether that was supposed to be a compliment or not , but I thought an ornament or something that you that sat upon a er er er er er upon a shelf and looked pretty , but did n't actually do anything . |
| 6 | Erm and that type of stand I mean it that in a very restricted area have n't you |
| 7 | The wall charts were the type of project I felt I had trained to tackle , and this was my first major commission involving both botany and zoology . |
| 8 | It is this degree of concentration I want you to work towards , using the haiku both as a point of departure and as a discipline you frequently return to . |
| 9 | The problem was that Kier had friends in the town council and , as Campbell pointed out , ‘ my eneemys here have wrote to My Lord Grange ; if the man is sett at liberty I begg it may be by y[ou]r interest , and that you 'll be so good as write me so , for it will do me service in this place ’ . |
| 10 | Yes and er my mother was frightened to death of guns because , oh he was a bit of a boy at heart I mean you can just imagine everybody used to bring the sporting guns to be repaired and there was guns floating about all over the place , and my mother was scared stiff of guns right till the time she died er , and he got mixed up with all these sporting connections you know like go off to shoots and various things and I think he did a bit of cock fighting in his day as well , but I 've , I 've got the exercise books that his two brothers . |
| 11 | And they come in , I mean he skids in the hall at night I mean it 's my fault I threw the rubber ring towards the kitchen down the hall he sort of skidded before he got there and there was a , and he must of had mud er , you know like like he had |
| 12 | Erm and it 's a bit like timekeeping I mean they they 've got their own system now for evaluating how good they are at time keeping and I think the erm the figure they try and hit is about ninety five percent is n't it of trains arriving on time . |
| 13 | After three enjoyable years as chairman I believe it 's time to stand down I shall miss those monthly meetings at thank you Betty for all the tea and coffee making but I shall have many happy memories , I suppose to me the highlights were the fiftieth anniversary celebration and the brilliant production of Stepping Out . |
| 14 | See , my idea originally was that cos it comes back from when I used to go in the in the Blue Anchor in Lancaster after work I mean we had everybody in there ! |
| 15 | and physics and all that sort of stuff I mean I |
| 16 | She said sharply , ‘ My romantic novels enabled you girls to have a carefree life , the sort of life I wish I 'd been able to give your father . ’ |
| 17 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 18 | Erm but at that sort of price I think he 's opposable . |
| 19 | ‘ If you 're away to glory in some sort of wilderness I suppose I have n't much option — but I must say that this is mighty strange — ’ |
| 20 | I 've worked with children in various settings , mainly in secondary school , and in recent years I 've worked with students , so when I try to make that sort of categorization I find it very difficult . |
| 21 | ‘ It is the sort of place I know I can do well at , but it is also an unusual sort of circuit too . |
| 22 | And I was only doing up here but er , that 's good enough , sort of thing I kissed her on the lips a couple |
| 23 | Any way that you can think of that will help to get these axes right because most of the time it 's going to be this sort of thing I mean you said , Do you want me to work it you know use the graph or just work it out from this . |
| 24 | When you next indulge in self-stimulation , instead of summoning up the prone and panting form of some nymph of your fervid fancy , at the moment of climax I want you to contemplate your own dappled visage . |
| 25 | I mean the strain on families must be enormous in a strike situation and for both people in the family to be having an input and feeling that they 're getting some sort of feedback from the situation that it 's not just despair must surely you know be you know there 's that side to it and then erm from the women 's point of view I mean we have like I said become one big family in a way you know and the social side of the strike in a way you know people are sa you know going out more maybe and certainly |
| 26 | Now unless anybody 's got a burning desire to pursue the question which I posed at two o'clock , and from my point of view I think we tested it to destruction . |
| 27 | How however , I mean from a a broader point of view I think I would have some general reservations as have been confessed previously by Mr Earle and and Mr Jewitt . |
| 28 | These guys therefore must have a facility of ensuring that the price is correct , from an internal control point of view I want them to be involved in certifying that the price is correct . |
| 29 | Has society modified it 's conception of family and of black sheep , or are these changes the outcome of a climate of openness I think we 've touched on this , to some extent , already , by saying things have changed . |
| 30 | Yes , I 'd say there was a definite move towards the same kinds of objects , the same kinds of styles and qualities of furniture being found in a wide variety of income groups , areas of the town , different types of houses , a much more over-all feel , really , a move towards classlessness I suppose you could call it . |