Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [noun] and i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh you know , do you remember Yvonne saying that that plant down there was a money plant and I did n't know what it was called ? |
| 2 | I do my exam in January and then I drop it because I go on a teaching practice and I pick it up halfway through third year . |
| 3 | For a minute I thought my luck had changed and something good had happened , like Malpass had had a heart attack and I had a corpse in the back . |
| 4 | She has just written a prayer letter and I quote from it . |
| 5 | This owner called Judge , he got hold of me , promised me a motor car , a fur coat and I do n't know what . |
| 6 | I removed this fish and put it in a quarantine tank and I treated both the Damsel and the fish in the main tank with Cuprazin . |
| 7 | I 've I 've got a knitting machine and I worked out how to do it on my knitting machine and made a cot blanket for my newest grandchild and it does really look very effective . |
| 8 | I also run a contrast colour tacking stitch around the outline for a sewing guide and I leave this in place until I have re-hung the sweater on the knitting machine to attach the neck band . |
| 9 | As I entered , a man came out of a side room and I knew immediately he must be Long John . |
| 10 | This is a murder enquiry and I want the truth . |
| 11 | I 'm a cocaine addict and I need something , 'cause I 've not had none for so many hours now . |
| 12 | All through the '70s I 'd wanted to be in a rock band and I ended up doing it and it was nothing like as exciting as I 'd imagined it from reading and listening to records . |
| 13 | The vestal virgins had gone for a tea break and I sat down thankfully in the cool of the ruins and closed my eyes . |
| 14 | Her husband died in a car accident and I had to go and tell his wife . |
| 15 | The hot streets where a child walks and I follow , forty years behind . |
| 16 | For their telephone number I 've just put a question mark and I 've put a note here to say I was internally transferred . |
| 17 | ‘ Look , if I live next door to an enemy and he has a knife , a gun and a machine gun and I 've got the same , I 'm not going to chuck mine before he chucks his . |
| 18 | Erm I 'm a home help and I go you know , for a lot of pensions and erm the pittance that these er old men and women have to live on a th th , I mean I really think it 's terrible ! |
| 19 | Then I have a tuning pedal and I have another pedal just for one song — a dynamic filter . |
| 20 | I would n't tell him if I went for lunch with my mother or a girl friend and I paid . |
| 21 | He wants a girl friend and I want a boy friend , and as I like him ( or at least what I know of him ) and I think he likes me , I think it would be good for both of us if we could be friends . |
| 22 | But you see , I just went to the education officer and I say , he , he ran it , he , it , it was , it was his responsibility the Guild 's were and I went to him about a Guild matter and I said oh , erm how I mentioned that I was working and he said well where are you working ? |
| 23 | So I 'm not a for a moment suggesting that some rules and regulations are n't needed and I think that er the trouble is that every rule and regulation that is passed in this house , there 's always an excuse for it and there 's usually a very good reason for it , but that is the problem that the government faces and it 's quite fairly er a problem the treasury face when they introduce these statutory instruments because er no one can disagree that fraud must be stamped out , all I 'm actually saying is that unfortunately upstairs we have a deregulation bill going ahead at all pace with hundreds of clauses and hundreds of new rules to try and red hundreds of new clauses to reduce the number of rules and here we are downstairs on the floor we have passing for very good reason perhaps , more rules and regulations and there are four more tonight and I believe that every government department Madam deputy speaker , has a minister specially appointed to keep an eye on deregulation and I just wondered although er my honourable friend on the front bench mentioned that er the even the D T I minister responsible for deregulation has looked at these , I wonder if there is a minister in the treasury , they 've actually put a minister in the treasury responsible for deregulation or is the ministry actually above deregulation because I think that er I got the impression that the that every ministry would have a deregulation minister and I think it would be rather useful to know who the deregulation minister is in the treasury . |
| 24 | I am a business man and I knew how marketable he was . |
| 25 | ‘ We do have a membership scheme and I try to increase numbers from family membership through to corporate membership . |
| 26 | In nineteen eighty three from nineteen fifty three after thirty years of making cheese , they changed his job , I think many of you are ahead of me already , he said I was given a job change and I began working in landscaping , how nice while being interviewed some time ago I was asked what I thought about being giving a job change after thirty years of making cheese and he said well it did n't bother me , I noted , frankly because I did n't like making cheese anyway |
| 27 | Madam Speaker , this is a job summit and I intend to talk about jobs . |
| 28 | Manchester-based Mark , at No. 19 with I Found Heaven , reveals : ‘ My mum did n't want me wasting my time trying to be a pop star and I came very close to quitting the group . |
| 29 | There is a freeline service which carers , I think a lady said earlier , over the phone is the best way , there is a freeline service and I think it would be a good idea for carers to take advantage of that , if we can help , we will . |
| 30 | I think I could survive on my own in New York if I had a credit card and I found a nice hotel like Kevin . |