Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb base] [pron] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he was always having fun so I suppose its the imagination that counts is n't it . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm buggered if I know what the point is , ’ said Wilcox sourly . |
| 3 | ‘ She 's round , ma'am , ’ Salt said in her angry voice , and under her breath : ‘ Blessed if I know what the world 's coming to … serving wenches falling about and being propped in chairs as if they were gentry . ’ |
| 4 | But if I tell her the truth and insist upon it , I shall be disobeying my husband and causing his mother unnecessary worry , she reflected , and was forced to accept that having made a cross for her back , she would have to bear it . |
| 5 | Okay , if I give him the turtle do you think he 'd |
| 6 | if I give him the turtle |
| 7 | ‘ My main thought was if I offer him my car how will I get to work tomorrow , and also if I give him the car will I be able to collect the insurance ? |
| 8 | But er no , we were talking and she said if I give you the money you wo n't go and spend it on the |
| 9 | " And if I give you the job , " Fairfax went on , " how soon will you begin ? " |
| 10 | If I give him money he goes and spends it If I lend him the bike he loses it He 's completely unreliable |
| 11 | Certainly in our meetings with the with the presentations we get from the trustees every year about the fund , we meet the trustees , we have n't er any erm real worry of saying that the pension trust has n't operated , because I think our the trustees of those two funds are much more independent than the Maxwell ones er were . |
| 12 | And since I know what the proposition means , I must know each constituent of it . |
| 13 | company insurance , right , now before I ask you the company that we 're hiring the mini bus off , I 'd like a , er a copy of the |
| 14 | But before I give you the assignment sheet , erm , how are you getting on ? |
| 15 | ‘ But , until we do , you can make yourself useful by binding up this hole in my arm before I give you the pleasure of bleeding to death . ’ |
| 16 | When I tell you the reason I 'm going you 'll wish you 'd let me go . |
| 17 | ‘ That will get stolen , ’ the minister of health exclaims when I show him the picture of the pressure cooker that is meant to be used as a steriliser in the dispensaries . |
| 18 | ‘ Thank you , William , ’ Marie says to me when I give her the tea , and I say ‘ Is there anything else , your Highness ? ’ like we 're king and queen or summat . |
| 19 | Mind , when I give 'im the wallet and 'e looked inside it , 'e was a mite more pleasant , even if I could n't see nothing but 'is mince pies and 'is 'ooter . |
| 20 | We have people sales people that are always discounting but er well when I say we the world has . |
| 21 | Er medically , as best as I understand what the doctors tell me , er I 'm er fine to carry the responsibilities and strain of er the cabinet job that I had . |
| 22 | Erm I was rather interested by the comparisons which you explained a little earlier in the evidence erm if you 've got an aircraft which is er going to replace , as I understand it the Jaguar and the Phantom which has already been retired , er against which you 've been comparing the F three er and the G R four of the tornados and the harriers , then er that gives rise in my mind to the possibility that this is an aircraft which might replace all of these , in which case will that have consequences for the still er publicly declared intention to order two hundred and fifty , might we order more for example ? |
| 23 | Now as I understand it the minister 's position is that he be bound to refer that matter to the partner responsible for audit and that partner er would then be put on notice that er he ought to report it to the relevant authority . |
| 24 | As I understand it the structure plan is based on an average density employment density of forty three . |
| 25 | er As I understand it the cost will be offset by the National Asthma Campaign . |
| 26 | As I understand it the Cleveland structure plan proposes the same number of dwellings for erm its next period which happens to be fourteen years , as it did for the last fourteen of the of the previous structure plan , fifteen thousand seven hundred . |
| 27 | My fear of a remote danger may be almost driven from mind by current emotions ; but to decide to take precautions I need no more than the faint tremor as I glimpse what the consequences of neglect would be like , I do not have to maintain the stimulus to action by living in constant terror until the danger has passed . |
| 28 | Er but that 's er as I see it the role of the local plan in relation to policy such as E two . |
| 29 | Although as I see it the facts do not fit easily into the existing category of duress or of claims colore officii , they shade into them . |
| 30 | I dream of Strathspeld , and the long summers of my childhood passed in a trance of lazy pleasure , ending with that day , running through the woods ( but I turn away from that memory , the way I 've learned to over the years ) ; I wander again through the woods and the small , hidden glens , along the shores of the ornamental lochan and the river and its loch and I 'm standing near the old boathouse in that defeatingly bright sunlight , light dancing on water , and I see two figures , naked and thin and white in the grass beyond the reed beds , and as I watch them the light turns from gold to silver and then to white , and the trees seem to shrink in on themselves , leaves disappearing in the chill coruscations of that enveloping white blaze while the view all around me becomes brighter and darker at once and all is reduced to black and white ; trees are bare and black , the ground smother-smoothed in white and the two young figures are gone , while one even smaller one — booted , gloved , coat-tails flying behind — runs laughing across the white level of the frozen loch . |