Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [coord] i [vb base] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But now Ellen the time I have long awaited has come and I write to tell you that an Italian maidservant by name of Gigia who is travelling home to Florence having been in Scotland with a family who are friends of the Brownings is to come to you to collect Oreste and take him to Liverpool where she will be joined by Mr Ogilvy and from whence they will sail for Italy . |
| 2 | ‘ If the shopkeeper wants to sell and I want buy , what business is it of anyone else ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Pears wants to play and I have to bear that in mind . ’ |
| 4 | Right O K yeah that 's the other major erm feature is that agriculture 's share of world trade has declined and manufacturing er share of world trade has increased and I 've got some er some numbers here erm so it says before the first world war agriculture 's share of world trade was over fifty percent , today it is less than fourteen percent okay , so agriculture 's share in world trade is declining and has been declining er essentially over the the last sort of seventy years or so . |
| 5 | My wife wants to move but I want to stay here . |
| 6 | I 'm afraid it still does happen that there is fanaticism , which is fanaticism is , as I understand it , self-righteousness with a strong religious dimension , and it does happen and I 've spoken of forces that erode it , but they can also exacerbate it , irritate it , into stronger activity , and of course we erm in the United Kingdom do n't have to look very far to see that happening , and it is , I think , a very great threat . |
| 7 | I said what he 's given and I 've repeated it back to him . |
| 8 | Marie told me I should n't leave it on when I ai n't in the room , and here I am — the first day she 's gone and I 've gone and left it on . |
| 9 | I think madam chairman you 'll find that there 's in the administration that er an officer , he 's left and I think replaced . |