Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have a certain degree of sympathy for men because I think you have to take into consideration that men are n't given enough opportunity to feel se , er sympathetic , maybe again is the wrong word |
| 2 | There 's been quite a lot of comment in the press erm , on high levels of , of salary of , of remu remuneration for directors and I think it might be helpful er , if I was were t were , were to make some general remarks on the background er , of how we er , approach directors ' remuneration . |
| 3 | I have a real weakness for clothes and I like my mum to help me choose them , ’ she said . |
| 4 | Erm we 've got a convalescent club for members and I think people made more use of that and then there was a time when I remember er you see , even the death , there was a death grant . |
| 5 | Men swarm everywhere , the cafés are crowded with them , sitting at drinkless tables — the greatest concentration of men that I have seen outside a football ground . |
| 6 | Well , my Lord the case is about the practice of solicitors and I 've pleaded upon the practice , that 's part of the statement . |
| 7 | The first one was community and I know , erm that Catherine was n't very happy about the community side of things and I 've looked at the the pamphlet things and it needs updating a little bit so I took the fact that the Royal Quay 's were down at our doorstep and contacted Linda who was extremely helpful and she 's put together erm , a package of things along with me , I went down last week and the first week the ninth is going to be explaining to the classes what we 're going to be doing , each form teacher will be able to do that and the sixteen and the twenty third there are visits down to the Royal Quay 's Education Centre erm for which |
| 8 | ‘ No , maybe not , but even the routine work is interesting ; I 've enjoyed the accident prevention side of things and I 've come to realise the value of our chat-line ; then , of course , there 's my work at Conway House and I 've become totally involved with that . |
| 9 | But , like I say , I 'm a really big fan of guitarists and I 've always been a fan of the guitarists in the group , whoever they 've been . ’ |
| 10 | play football on Sundays and I fence as well , Thursday night . |
| 11 | I said playing the European Championships in Sweden would later take its toll on players and I have been proved correct . ’ |
| 12 | As an ex-schoolmistress I should have thought she 'd had her fill of children and I make no pretence at understanding them . ’ |
| 13 | Er , we looked at it as you know when we were considering reorganisation of committees and I think this is perhaps one of the few things to come out of all that . |
| 14 | ‘ I was surprised to hear that he was married but I wanted a change of surroundings so I packed my few belongings and went with him there and then . |
| 15 | It was a clear night , but the radar was a mass of echoes and I asked the Belgian contact to give me an estimated course and speed of our quarry , and as a result of this we were able to pick it up . |
| 16 | Erm but I intend to er contact them again and say to them , Well you know I 'm still here and should you hit problems or find that you 've just lost one of your erm staff who were providing the kind of services that I do , do n't forget that I 'm still here . |
| 17 | He had a nice red car and he had this and he looked like a singer , like er , you know the kind of things that I like , right , women that look , they dress nicer , like . |
| 18 | And I need the money to finance my , my climbing , and other kind of things that I do . |
| 19 | Over the last twenty years or so , one of the things that 's slipped has been those kind of things and I believe and Peter may disagree with me , but a lot of the have been because of the commercial fact that the thing that is now driving the newspapers more than anything else is , is the advertising and advertising revenues and that drives the style of newspapers and stories that are written . |
| 20 | Erm , when the Bullitt family sought it to published it , it was published , but by that time , the kind of changes that I talked about at the beginning of my lectures , had already occurred in psychoanalysis . |
| 21 | I believe that you have to be tall to wear the kind of outfits that I do . |
| 22 | Well a variety of views and I think the only generalization I can make about weddings is that you ca n't generalize about weddings , some people think they 're wonderful , some people are sceptical , people have done their own er variations on weddings . |
| 23 | Faced with the great variety of distinctions that I have indicated we may ask whether they can in fact be brought within the compass of a single typology . |
| 24 | I find this very difficult to erm , to relate , to relate hard work to the women portraying in , in this , we 've got the postcard of that one , erm it must of been hard work and very tedious , but I think every now and then the moment breaks away and shines through at the back , and I think people like , like Gaugin erm captures those moments and then releases them on the canvass , and I hope that erm by , I hope I 've been able to show you how I use art as a voice erm and a friend as my own work , even though we 've maybe had to do such a sort of hand fist way , hand fisted way , erm , but , I , I 've recently started to re-visit old favourite of paintings and I found that the story they tell sometimes has changed dramatically , maybe sometimes when your very little that , that , you know , sometimes dramatically as well , erm , but I , mostly , most importantly its , its still , I still find them , all of them compelling and challenging and , and something to stride for in my own work , erm , er only time will tell so I 'll finish with the , the last poem which is erm comes from the postcard what 's going round which is harvest , its called Patterns In The Grass , Wheat cut and falls , making lion head patterns in the grass , sickle shaped women bend and bow as a naive dressed as a dog steals the evening meal . |
| 25 | I 'd come out on the simple camera-fetching errand without the complete zipped pouch of gadgets but I did have with me the belt holding my knife and the multi-purpose survival tool , and on the back of that tool there was a mirror . |
| 26 | I hate the smell of cigarettes since I 've packed in smoking I can not stand it |
| 27 | Steve made me laugh he said we 'll have some mushrooms so me showing off I said erm , how much , how much did I , a kilo , a kilo of mushrooms when I come back I got |
| 28 | I 've met him three or four times when he 's been the compere of things that I 've had some three-minute act on , and we 've seemed to get on together , but he 's not really what I go for . |
| 29 | I got very depressed — there was no particular reason , just a lowering of spirits as I realized again that , for the foreseeable future , we were going nowhere . |
| 30 | Recently though , I have become less depressed with the help of antidepressants and I 've realised that I no longer want to be ill . |