Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Where I go in my free time is none of your business , you interfering old cow . ’ |
| 2 | If the hon. Member for Oldham , West or I wrote to our local tax inspector and claimed that someone had put a form through our letterbox requiring only our signature for the taxation officer to open up our tax affairs for the past 30 years on the offchance that we might be entitled to something , that would be farcical . |
| 3 | They realise that their route to the Community can be opened only if their countries are practising real democracy in respect of human rights , and multi-party Parliaments — although I said to my Polish friends , ’ You can go a bit too far . ’ |
| 4 | That is my advice , although I emphasise to my hon. Friend that I am not a clinician and he does not need to be told that . |
| 5 | She drew the word out , so that I heard in its simple syllable all the pain and hurt of the drug . |
| 6 | My youngest daughter Ella will be two on Sunday — yet it seems like only yesterday that I looked at her pink , scrunched-up face for the first time and fell in love with her funny , quirky personality . |
| 7 | He also taught us music and it was through him that I learned of its expressive nature . |
| 8 | The sureness with which I carry out all motions on this return journey , the knowledge that is part of the recognition , overwhelmingly convinces me , in the dream and on waking , that I have often , often been there , although , as you know , I never lived in the country as a child , and all the lore that I needed for my little articles on Nature was garnered later from various sources . |
| 9 | Erm , she covers the Durham , Gateshead and Bishop Auckland area , the reason being is that I look after our certain areas , and Jane looks after certain areas , and we both make appointments for Jack . |
| 10 | I regret that I disagree with my hon. Friend , but I assure her that the levels have returned to those of 1987 . |
| 11 | I refer my hon. Friend to the answer that I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Gravesham ( Mr. Arnold ) some moments ago . |
| 12 | ‘ I probably committed more fouls in that game than I have throughout my entire career — I was that determined to do well . ’ |
| 13 | We 've certainly got more in common than I 'ave with my real brother . |
| 14 | ‘ I did n't want to work in a shop or a bank so I wrote to my local radio station , West Sound , asking if I could make the tea . ’ |
| 15 | Sally and I looked for something local and intense , a compromise between a traverse of the Meije in the wake of great names , or a pass crossing in the wake of a continental alpine course . |
| 16 | And I looked at his sad face . |
| 17 | So I was standing there and I thought to myself pretend I 'm looking at my watch and I 'm waiting for someone . |
| 18 | As Les and I walked into their tiny , barely furnished house , his wife greeted us , and his little girl held up her arms for me to lift her . |
| 19 | Malc reappeared round the door , looked at me over the top of his specs and reached out and I walked towards his outstretched arms on liquid legs . |
| 20 | John and I returned to our new home , but it was difficult , at first , to take any pleasure in the place ( the vast skylight , for example ) , Tod 's state being what it was . |
| 21 | Her voice blew away the cobwebs and I put on something respectable to cross the road ; she sounded like a child going to a party . |
| 22 | If you want to get personal then two can play at that , and I swear on my lifelong friendships with the late Mrs Gandhi , Brian Clough and Michael Parkinson that I will burn my brand new membership card of the NUJ on the square at Headingley if you can name me the full Yorkshire team you 're chairman of . |
| 23 | So life went on and I adapted to my new country , to living as a black youngster in a white-dominated society . |
| 24 | This is my son and I apologise for his bad manners . |
| 25 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 26 | I had your last dear letter this morning ( Tuesday ) , and I feel after your loving , passionate one how mine must seem cold . |
| 27 | That is a good point , and I agree with my hon. Friend . |
| 28 | It does not seem to me that this can involve any impeachment , or questioning of the freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in Parliament , accordingly I do not see how such a use of Hansard can possibly be thought to infringe article 9 of the Bill of Rights and I agree with my noble and learned friend 's more detailed consideration of that matter . |
| 29 | I enjoy nature and long country walks , and I cheer-lead for my local basketball team . |
| 30 | There 's no side to me and I look after me old mum . |