Example sentences of "[adj] [det] [noun sg] and i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The programme has been a lot better , a lot more stable this year and I think all round , the fitness in general , is going to be a lot better than it was last year . |
| 2 | There I was , talking to people asleep this morning and I woke to the dulcet tones of talking on the radio . |
| 3 | Beryl was poorly this morning and I had to run her to the doctors . |
| 4 | Erm I 've been out as on the er line three this morning and I think there 's another little bit we ought to buy but we 'll discuss that as we 're going on eh ? |
| 5 | You know given that life is as it is are you okay and he said yes so I went round the gardens and I came back to him and I had a friend coming for lunch and I thought this is ridiculous , I 'm going to have something to drink and I 'm going to have a meal so I made him an enormous great wad of cheese sandwiches and some apples and a piece of cake and some biscuits and a cup of tea and I went downstairs with the milk and the sugar and cup of tea and all this stuff and I went into the gardens and this poor child he looked very defensively a second time and I said well I thought you might like some breakfast and I wrapped the second lot up so if you 've nothing later on , why not put it in your pocket and eat later in the day and I did n't know whether you took milk or sugar , so I thought I 'd better just ask you and do you know I thought he was going to cry . |
| 6 | wherever you go wherever you go there 's gon na be all this upheaval and I mean let's face it if the Tories do n't get in this time , and pray god they do n't , Labour 's gon na completely |
| 7 | I was gon na bring some back and I thought no I wo n't cos I 'll only end up eating it all this week and I 've got three weeks left to get really in shape for Christmas , you know , before I slob out and eat |
| 8 | and these people , you know , er had a deputation and all this business and I think some of that rubbed off on the children and , and you 've |
| 9 | I 've been awake all night and I 've got a hell of a day ahead , meetings from morning till night . ’ |
| 10 | And the dance band they were actually number one that night and I do n't think they 've ever been heard since you know . |
| 11 | You sat in that same spot and I stood right here . |
| 12 | When George Wigg asked my view about this , I recommended that he should urge Harold Wilson to oppose any such investigation and I drafted a letter which Wigg suggested Wilson should write to the Prime Minister . |
| 13 | ‘ I was a bit too nosy that time and I have n't seen the stall here since . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I did pop round for a chat with him earlier this evening and I thought he seemed a bit jumpy . |