Example sentences of "[noun pl] and i [verb] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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1 | Oh , I was n't and erm , the next thing I know I 've nearly fucking been bowled over , sort of the bags in fucking look behind me , so those two fucking bought the bags back down fucking legs and I 've just caught this like running round another , another thing , I thought oh fucking little kid , the next thing I know there 's another one gone pass me like , taken the bags , the handles out of the plastic bags , fucking and it was a girl that was going first this time , so I and sure enough there was a little fucking brat boy coming again , so I just went flying he sort of looked up at me and rubbed his eye like that and carried on running after the . |
2 | Of course I 'd seen pictures and I 've always wanted a guitar like that . |
3 | Was moaning about she had to buy three Christmas presents and she only got two kids So Ann turned round and said oh you 're fucking well mad I got to buy five presents and I 've only got two kids . |
4 | I have listened to many of his speeches and I have never heard him advocate that before . |
5 | I do n't even get on with my brother , we 've always been at different schools and I 've hardly spoken to him since he went to university . ’ |
6 | ‘ They 're mostly postcards and I 've only got threepenny stamps . ’ |
7 | I have now received the draft Contract from the vendor 's solicitors and I have accordingly despatched to them the Preliminary Enquiries arising thereon and also my local search with East Herts District Council . |
8 | Finishing a video always means long working hours and I get totally absorbed by it as the following anecdote shows . |
9 | It 's one of the old-fashioned files with a curly bit on the end for doing your cuticles and I 've always had better results from it than bending any amount of credit cards . |
10 | I 've been in Egypt four years and I 've never seen a Pasha 's wife or daughter . ’ |
11 | I 've been in the trade for 29 years and I 've never known it this bad . |
12 | ‘ I was unemployed for two years and I have just got a nice job . |
13 | The place has given off a bad odour for years and I have always avoided it like the plague . |
14 | As one teacher trainer put it not long ago , ‘ I have been in education for 25 years and I have never known morale so low . |
15 | I have been producing guidebooks for fifteen years and I have never thought of that . |
16 | It was one of those trivial things and I had entirely forgotten it when Mrs Rumney phoned again . |
17 | Over the years I have had all sorts of lighter weight machines and I have gradually replaced them with either Wadkin or Robinson versions . |
18 | I 've got money , money in premium bonds and I 've never won anything . |
19 | I 've always owned bitches and I 've always had them done . |
20 | The procedure for job applications and interviews is well known to most returners and I have therefore assumed that you do not need detailed guidance on this . |
21 | Study the fretboard diagrams and I 've also written out the exercise ( in C Major ) . |
22 | Does he further agree that the fact that 71 vessels have been ordered by the Ministry of Defence since 1979 confirms what my hon. Friends and I have always believed — that under the present Government the Royal Navy will continue to play an important role and provide a fine career in the foreseeable future ? |
23 | The press are still hanging around in dribs and drabs and I feel safer confined to my room when not at the theatre . |
24 | There are , of course , differences and I 've often wondered what is the most significant difference . |
25 | It could be , or I 'm just wondering if it 's actually squirrels , because although the , the excreta contains berries erm a squirrel will eat berries , it will also eat nuts and of course they do bury their nuts and I 've actually seen squirrels in other parts of the country digging holes and starting a bit of a larder and of course there are a lot of , of erm squirrels in Croydon so I think unless you actually see the animal you can only speculate that it is something small like a vole or , or a squirrel . |
26 | I 've often noticed it in men and I 've never known a woman to behave as weirdly as a man . ’ |
27 | The outside is the estate agents and I 've never known anybody give that up . |
28 | Right , I want to pick up on I 've started looking at your tests , the history of language ones and I 've actually marked only the section where you actually re-wrote the er , early modern English extract , and I want to pick up on that instantly , and talk about that and the ways you you , the way you can go around , no I 'm not gon na give you that . |
29 | This announcement comes only months after retirement from Midland Embalming Services and I have already heard stories of breakfast in bed and other luxuries associated with retirement ! |
30 | And then we 're going to do a new Dow text and a new Scotch-Roman for their headlines and I 've always wanted to do that . |