Example sentences of "[adj] and i [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ I have been waiting for the last three years for an opportunity like this and I see it as the right time in my career to take it . |
| 2 | Then I get this hot feeling at the back of my head and everything goes funny and I find myself on the floor . |
| 3 | ‘ But all the people who took part were very , very brave and I have nothing but admiration for them all . |
| 4 | I mean he 's been known to do that because he you know what is going to happen with him commercially in his newspapers and he 's actually very clever and I mean none of us I mean okay and I think Peter might be the but I can get quite upset or intense or distressed or whatever the word is about that sort of stuff , because I am my background is journalism and I 'm quite pure about it , but we 're living in reality times here and the reality times is that he has got certain agendas . |
| 5 | I do n't know what it is , but it oh it 's carrying me down , I know that much and I have it for years and years . |
| 6 | I mean we 've got , four , four , four cars in our house , the gran lives in the granny annexe inside , god knows how the fucking hell she got a parking space , somehow she did , mum 's got her 's in there , my old mans parked his opposite , we 've got a big double drive as well , my old man parks his on the right and I park mine on the fucking left , its like a parking lot out there in the mornings , and if when he says |
| 7 | The chair was comfortable but low and I found myself in the disconcerting position of having to look up at him while we spoke . |
| 8 | I had a flat tape recorder with a directional mic and I stuck it on the table and above me was a speaker through which all this muzak was coming out . |
| 9 | Oh well , I , I , I mean I , my mind , my memory is going I know , but I , but I look at that and I turn it over each month and I have a look at I have an idea what 's |
| 10 | I mean yes er as I said earlier on it 's just a question for for just a bit more obviously in the readings report th there is there is concern naturally with the by-passes in paragraph two five I mean I have n't had a chance to sort of looking up yet , and I 'd by grateful for County Executive 's advice on that and I thought we as a County Council had agreed a line erm for a by-pass through the West Sussex portion at least . |
| 11 | You assumed I would know to pick it up to like that and I grabbed it like that . |
| 12 | Cantona , who flew to Paris for the top-rated chat show Sacree Soiree after his United debut in Lisbon on Tuesday , added : ‘ I am fit and I enjoyed myself in the opener against Benfica . |
| 13 | ‘ It is certainly valuable and I want it for myself . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's pretty fast and I expect everyone to be going at quite a lick from the start , ’ he said . |
| 15 | I saw nothing suspicious and I know nothing of what happened on the second floor . ’ |
| 16 | And I 'll do mine so I had three sixty and I split it as a ten times thirty six and then I had two times five for that ten okay ca n't go any further there . |
| 17 | The weather was damp and chilly but the sleeping bag felt mighty good and I made it through the first night , sleeping like a log . |
| 18 | It has many tough , determined people who have been tested and not found wanting and I thank you for it . |
| 19 | Elton does n't deserve to be called the worst , he 's very stylish and I dress him for the country . |
| 20 | ‘ I just called to say I 'm happy and I mean it from the bottom of my heart , ’ said Stevie . |
| 21 | But the PE teacher was strong-willed and I associated myself with him more than anybody else . |
| 22 | I disapproved of his grey suede shoes , his floppy bow tie and the excessive width of his trousers : he struck me as flaccid and petulant and I disliked him on sight . |
| 23 | that 's for group one one okay , okay I 'm not telling you who 's doing whose right please mark it , marks out of ten and I want you to be able to justify your marks . |
| 24 | The diet was too severe and I broke it by having eggs and fish . |
| 25 | joined us just as we were ready to go overseas , he had just come out of er Flight School and of course his heart was set on being a fighter pilot and here he became a co-pilot so he was a very disappointed man and he did not stand up well in combat so there were n't too many missions , about five and I bounced him off the crew and would n't fly with him any more and got then other co-pilots to fly with me from our Squadron . |
| 26 | I had to get my passport done , my parents ' written permission because I was only seventeen and I found myself in Paris two days later . |
| 27 | When Stephanie 's mother died we found in the bungalow a watch , it must of been given I would of thought to her father probably for his twenty first and I took it to a jewellers in Elton , well that 's all he does is watches actually apart from jewellery . |
| 28 | ’ I 'm 13 and I want lots of fans to write to me ’ |
| 29 | I have grown one and I twist it at the ends ( the moustache too ) . ’ |
| 30 | and we were walking along and there 's all these daffodils so I went and picked one and I give it to her . |