Example sentences of "[art] [noun] i [vb base] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I always thought it would be marriage or nothing for you — especially after the way you 've kept men at arm 's length over the years I 've known you . ’ |
| 32 | Over the years I have kept my distance from the white women 's movement . |
| 33 | Here , to make amends for the fright I have put you in . |
| 34 | But , having said that , if you feel , particularly with schemes that you are particularly familiar with , that that one is above or another or we could substitute rather than , there wo n't be any more money , that 's the point I need to stress I think . |
| 35 | He said : ‘ The supporters know I have always spoken to them in honesty and when I could not give them the truth I have kept my mouth shut . |
| 36 | And go I 'm a bit shy you see , erm well I 'm a bit shy and tell the truth I have to admit I 'm a bit shy so , I when I come on I 'm gon na say hello and then you say hello back to me . |
| 37 | That would n't surprise me at all , the things I 've seen them try to eat . |
| 38 | I suppose one of the things I use to demonstrate it most clearly is that for many years I s I gave lectures on communications and one of the things I used to say in those lectures was I did not know , and I was stressing that sense what came first if newspapers write stories in a particular way , because that is what the public wanted or do public want a particular type of story and that 's that newspapers round-up and I stopped posing that question when Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun because Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun and introduced a lot of sex-type stories you know stories about brothels and madames whipping people and goodness knows what else and the sales rocketed and there we had almost a captive example of change in the design of change in the type of stories that were written and people , people were buying it and so you have an issue of you know that your content was actually being by what your readership wanted . |
| 39 | Hair is one of the things I do know something about . |
| 40 | However , of the studies I have mentioned it would be difficult to claim that more than a handful fulfilled the criteria I mentioned earlier : both ( a ) respected as an original scholarly contribution within its own discipline and ( b ) could clearly not have been done without a computer . |
| 41 | I simply say that on the debates we 've had on the Policing Bill , I 've learnt what the functions of your Noble House is all about and the speech that 's just been made from across the Chamber from me , sums up entirely my views on the matter , and I say to your Lordships House that on the basis of experience as Northern Ireland Secretary when one is a Home Secretary for a province and there 's a number of people in this House who 've had a job to do including the Noble Lord , The Noble Viscount Whitelaw who set the tone of the way we all proceeded , I accept that , the one of the things we had to do there was bring democracy back to policing and the primary force of policing is taking a long time to do and that here as Home Secretary , everything I learned there was , stop the growing centralisation and the weakening of the police authorities and police force and this Bill does exactly that But now one of the questions I 've asked myself and it 's the only point because all the points have been made that I really want to ask the Government is what are these appointees for ? |
| 42 | But I do n't see any problem , from the figures I 've given you , in handling any of those forecasts really when you 're talking about a very small proportion in our part of the world compared to the probably the figures that you 're talking about around er Leeds , Bradford , Harrogate . |
| 43 | ‘ When you 've seen some of the problems I 've seen you 'll realise how lucky you are . ’ |
| 44 | Now we all know because we 're print buyers to a larger or greater degree but they 're clients they over-estimate they add about twenty five per cent more on than they need and you have to send them back to sharpen their pencils several times before you 've seen the estimate , they of course know that all print buyers are idiots who keep forgetting all the important things and do n't give them half the information they need like the weight of paper or the fact that there 's to be a pocket at the back so , I think if we got the man I think if we maybe started off with H M S O the print buyer which is more akin to what we are and say well you know these are the problems I 've got I 'm sitting with a six million pound budget buying for the whole of the government of Scotland and I have problems and these are the problems that I have , then we get to the wee man from who says now wait a minute boys I get the rubbish that you send out , that was the message and let's make it funny but slightly aggressive let's highlight the real problems because that 's what it 's about , we 're not here for a nice night we 're here to learn |
| 45 | , the minute I stop talking we started |
| 46 | During the day I sit banging my drum and watching good actors singing my words . |
| 47 | At the end of the day I 've got my head screwed on . |
| 48 | I 've met people who 've said they 've , they 've enjoyed living in the flats , but all the people I 've known who 've said that have since moved out . |
| 49 | A , the landlord , having ( by conduct ) told B , his tenant , ‘ You need not fulfil your contractual duty to repair the premises within six months of the notice I have given you , ’ could not forfeit the lease ( that is , terminate the contract ) on the ground that B had broken his contract . |
| 50 | If you can not use the terms I have offered you , the choice of another is up to you . |
| 51 | ‘ I saw the woman I love wrap herself round my older , smarter and wittier brother like clingfilm round a sandwich , and it looks like they 're enjoying each other the way … |
| 52 | Trouble is in the past I 've given him Liberty silk ties . |
| 53 | ‘ If you study the answers I have given I think you will find that they are very clear , ’ Di Leonardo returned . |
| 54 | ‘ If I can come up with the names then I will take that to the chairman or whoever is in charge to try and get the backing I need to sign them . ’ |
| 55 | When we were making the recording I have to say it made me feel completely happy ; it is a piece which has such perfection of form . |
| 56 | ‘ The man I 've sent her to is very good , ’ said Julius . |
| 57 | ‘ Ca n't you understand , you great big stupid asqueroso , I was close to getting it out of him , the information I need to prove my husband is not imagining things . |
| 58 | Given the information I have gathered it will be impossible for a nanny without any recognised qualification to get any liability insurance for claims against her . |
| 59 | ‘ But all the men I 've met who I 've felt would make good fathers have invariably turned out to be men I could n't love … ’ |
| 60 | Anyway , it 's very , very good news , he 's turned the corner I 've hit him over the head with the newspaper ! |