Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] i [verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | he said oh do n't want speakers cos I 've got them there |
| 2 | You 've only been there eighteen months while I 've known it all my life . |
| 3 | I 'd been right about Lloyd 's two-tone shoes though I had expected him to put socks on , and I was wrong about the hat — it was a white Panama . |
| 4 | Sir David continues to ask me every couple of hours if I 've done it yet . ’ |
| 5 | right , that 's it , you 've , you 've told me this three times and I 've told you several times as well , the , the Russians put everything they 've got into military technology , just because , just because their kids are still running around |
| 6 | I mean for example if they walked in the room right now I 'm sure you 'd introduce me so I 'm really saying is look can you give me a telephone number , I 'll give them a chat and in fact , by the way , if you do see him within the next couple of days or so please give him a shout , let me know that you 've been quite excited about some of the ideas that I 've shown you this evening , I wan na do the same thing for him , you know , nothing gained nothing ventured nothing lost . |
| 7 | I really ca n't answer for David because in all the years that I 've known him , I always actually found him a rather cold person , even when I was 14 and he was 16 , even as boy and girlfriend . |
| 8 | Through the years that I 'd known him , I 'd watched him grow in mind and body and now felt a twinge of pride that he had grown so well . |
| 9 | ‘ They are a breed that will enjoy a long walk and they are excellent car travellers — in the 34 years that I have owned them I have never known one to be car sick , ’ she added . |
| 10 | We all intend to continue the same sort of programme for the next couple of years and I have said I would like to call in next term and on a periodic basis until our responsibility ceases . |
| 11 | I 've got very sensitive gums cos I 've brushed them badly |
| 12 | We carried on a rather halting conversation and it came to me with a bump that my mind had been forced on to different tracks since I had left her . |
| 13 | Oh it must be fifty years since I 've seen her . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's three years since I 've seen him , long before all this business . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's years since I 've seen them . |
| 16 | Why you 're doing this Christmas , it may be my last , John said what do you mean , I said well , I do n't know if I 'm going to be in a classroom this time next year , I mean , I really enjoy Christmas with the children , fifteen years since I 've done it , I 've forgotten how I enjoyed myself . |
| 17 | It was two and a half years since I had seen them and it gave me a lot of hope just to know that they were still in good shape , although they both looked much older . |
| 18 | As I approached Gateshead Hall , I realized it was nine years since I had left it . |
| 19 | He 'd been making some records but they were n't successful and for the first few weeks after I 'd met him and decided to work with him , I was listening to songs that he 'd written , and was in the process of writing , and came to the conclusion that he was not essentially a singles artist . |
| 20 | Exactly , that 's what I 'm doing , I 'm doing it that way , I 'm doing the basics , which will get the marks and I 'm doing , going back and adding extra little sods when I 've finished it oh God |
| 21 | Even in disguise I knew her at once , for a truly sensual woman can not disguise herself from my perceptions once I have seen her . ’ |
| 22 | And I just go through all the catastrophes that I 've bought you , so from now on it 's cash , just cash . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't like rushing into things until I 've thought them through , ’ he said , reasonably . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Hedgehogs have neither the speed nor the manoeuvrability to catch rabbits but I have known them to kill the young in a stop , gaining entrance during the times when the doe has left the stop unsealed just before the young rabbits are moved out . |
| 26 | I said it 's ages since I 've had her all on my own . |
| 27 | What made it worse was that in order to explain the frustrations that I had experienced I found myself making stereotyping judgments about Africans as lazy — not even caring to look after themselves — and as unreliable . |
| 28 | In the end , they did get some players and I have said I am pretty satisfied that the England players who went did n't go for money . |
| 29 | but as I wrote this and you know put in the acc th the conflict , it came up to two thousand five hundred words and I taped it and timed it and I 've been butchering it and cutting out all the really nice little sentences and the nice sentences and I 've got it down to two one sixty and now with that announcement on the end , as I 've got it taped , it 's fourteen minutes fifty-nine seconds for a fifteen minute slot , so it 's about as precise as you 're gon na get it . |
| 30 | I have made all the amendments that I wished to make to the procedures and I have done it in pencil with a copy to circulate . |