Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [verb] the [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you know the story I mean the parable I mean ? |
| 2 | In my earlier reply I told the House what action the United Kingdom Government have taken , in concert with our partners in the European Community and other civilised countries , to condemn utterly the conduct of the Burmese Government and to call for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi . |
| 3 | One set of interviews , with the literary editors of national newspapers , was carried out using half a dozen ‘ topic headings ’ simply to ensure that at each interview I covered the ground I had decided beforehand was important for my purpose . |
| 4 | But this tip for reasons beyond my knowledge has gone so there 's nothing to be done about it and erm er the last test I had the guy who conducted it said , You 've already got the heart off an average sixty year old who has n't had a heart attack . |
| 5 | In a paper in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy I defended the view he rejected by saying that the ‘ nature ’ of the ‘ sensations as they are in their own nature ’ is the nature we apprehend them as having when a certain way of describing them comes to us naturally , and that the reason why a certain way of describing them comes to us naturally need not be a reason of which we are conscious . |
| 6 | The moment I touched the ground I knew why — the excessive ( to me — but normal to Tiree residents ) wind whipped me and my heavily laden briefcase into the lounge where Peter McMillan , Manager of Scarinish Branch offered me the relative calm of his car . |
| 7 | Whatever it was , the moment I saw the Parsons I knew them for British as surely as though they 'd had the word stamped on their hides like bacon . |
| 8 | Anyway the moment I trod the stage I felt completely at home . |
| 9 | I said and that 's why cos Paul said to me , he said , I never hear you moan , I said look you wo n't hear me moan because it 's not that I enjoy the job I hate the job I said I hate the work , and I find it hard work but at the end of the day on a Friday , I know that six o'clock in the morning on a Friday I can go up to the Nationwide Anglia , slip my card in there and I know there 's gon na be a couple of hundred of quid in there with the |
| 10 | That evening I roasted the chestnuts I 'd picked |
| 11 | NEXT day I took the advice I had been given by my friends at the Union and went to see the exhibition of the Bibliotheca Corviniana in the National Library on Castle Hill , partly because Matthias I , or Matthias Hunyadi , known as Corvinus because of the crow motif on his banners , was one of the most striking and decisive characters in East European history , straddling the histories of Transylvania , Hungary , Bohemia and Austria . |
| 12 | 'Do I know the company you 'll be working for ? ’ |
| 13 | Cos of the bus strike I went the way I normally go though . |
| 14 | Yes , and I remember the tanks moving down Whitehall ; or at any rate I remember the picture I had of them in my head as Tilly Tilling , in the middle of a history class , suddenly began to tell us about the military putsch that was coming . |
| 15 | In my pocket I have the key he lent me , but if Jamie is not there I do n't want to sit in the wreckage of his flat till he finally decides to show up from the pub . |
| 16 | Student I know the man who owns the garage . |
| 17 | ‘ But , Ayesha , I am no god ; I am a man , and as a man I seek the woman whom I love . |
| 18 | With wildly beating heart , before opening the shed door I rehearse the lie I am about to tell him — just like in drama — including the correct tone of voice : ‘ Just going for a quick bike ride , Pa . |
| 19 | I see now narrow mindedness I see the deathedness I see suspicion of other communities I see jealousies . |
| 20 | Aye everything was gi really fantastic the people that helped the people that gave to the strike , out of this world I know the help they had was really fantastic . |
| 21 | What is the commitment like for display unit during the year I get the impression it 's not used as much as it used to be |
| 22 | As President of the National Union for the year I read the message which contained Macmillan 's decision . |
| 23 | On the way I passed the rabbit I thought had escaped , lying just before the sparkling clean water of the stream ; blackened and contorted , locked into a weird , twisted crouch , its dead dry eyes staring up at me as I passed by , accusatory . |
| 24 | In the tabloid press I became the villain who put his knife into Noddy and his boot into Biggles . |
| 25 | At the big house I met the Officer who had been looking for me earlier on . |
| 26 | Every time I do the laundry I bet there 's a coffee machine card in there , shirt pocket , there 's two there this morning . |
| 27 | At the time I did the course I was still very inexperienced , and inclined to be impatient with Dawn 's training . |
| 28 | The whereabouts of the other two tureens are still unknown and every time I open the mail I hold out some hope . |
| 29 | In fact I think the people who are looking in the direction of change in terms of parent governors and P T As etcetera are , I think looking in the wrong direction . |
| 30 | in fact I feel the price we charge for concessions and youngsters is a giveaway we might as well give them away for nothing . |