Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [conj] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I started there and they put me on a month 's trial and I dithered about about this month , whether I was good enough , and they 'd forgotten all about it , by the end of month , trial . |
| 2 | I mused on Toby 's story as I walked towards the clubhouse and so intent was I on my thoughts that I nearly knocked over Sally Drayton as I passed the PGA hut . |
| 3 | I heard them no sooner I turned to walk away which I did after a brief moment 's hesitation when I wrestled with the foolish notion of somehow eliciting a confession out of the florid man that he was lying and that Leicester Square did indeed exist ; not realizing then that he was right , and that there really was no such place as Lei-cester Square . |
| 4 | My chest ached with a child 's fear while I cringed in the deeply recessed doorway of North Three . |
| 5 | I was , I was off on , on Sunday , I mean I 've joined yet another marriage agency , off on last Sunday to Latherham , with another nice old chap , you know , erm , I , I go out with erm , women friends , we , I 've arranged , er there 's one very , very good place that does lunches , run by a couple of homosexuals and erm , old age pensioners on Tuesday get , get a lunch , an eight pound lunch , for four pounds , so four friends , three friends and myself are going for a special Christmas lunch that they do , fortnight ago we went for a lunch with the group of the town 's women 's guild and friends , erm , my women 's group that I belong to over at the village of which is run by the television actress er Helen Fraser |
| 6 | I went in John 's shop and I goes to John have you seen Maggie ? |
| 7 | ‘ It 's a mug 's game and I happen to be very good at it . |
| 8 | Right , where 's this morning 's paper and I go to the bogs ? |
| 9 | Notice that , although I have just summarized some of the teacher 's predicament that I described in Chapter 2 , we have arrived at the summary by a different route : not by reporting what people say , but by looking at the inevitable consequences of working in a demanding situation . |
| 10 | It was one of the few references to the former prime minister 's gender that I heard during the whole week of leadership crise . |
| 11 | I greeted my cousin 's suggestion that I drive with him and his family to Italy for a skiing holiday with some apprehension . |
| 12 | So I went into the doctor 's surgery and I said to him , I said : ‘ Look , I apologise . |
| 13 | We banked over Bonefish 's house and I waved at Thessy who was standing beside Masquerade . |
| 14 | I watched the scene through the window of George Burley 's office while I talked to Bill Baudelaire 's mother on the telephone . |
| 15 | The clerk , realising from Mirsal 's uniform that I belong to the sacred official class , merely bows his head to the storm , pays up and looks pleasant . |
| 16 | I know that they combine a macho enthusiasm for selective violence with a rigid adherence to middle-class morality , but you are n't seriously suggesting that they 'll suspect me of cutting Paul 's throat because I go to bed with his wife ? |