Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [noun sg] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The seating inside was as follows : Russell , the McLaren girl and I riding backwards , across from Braden , Mrs. Favor and Dr. Favor .
2 Somebody might laugh , but just for something to do I was picturing the McLaren girl and I sitting alone in the hotel cafe .
3 And also , remember , the firms , which as I say , were dying on their feet in any case , and I me , I did quote the Colchester Lathe because I felt so personally about that cos it was Colchester itself they have actually moved their division up to Leicester itself .
4 I do n't see how she can do the hours , with the hours that she 's doing , I mean she 's still in the Penny Farthing when I came here cos I went to pay her the money .
5 I make frequent visits to the Killearn workshop and I need a base for when I 'm in Scotland .
6 The local Labour MP , George Foulkes , whose constituency of Carrick , Cumnock and Doon Valley contains the Digital plant , said : ‘ This is good news for the Ayr workforce and I congratulate the management there and the Scottish Office for the work they did to achieve this successful outcome .
7 Turns out his Dad is a head master in the Bathgate area so I says ‘ Oh what 's the school called ? ’
8 ‘ As president of a manufacturing company , I was very impressed by the degree of computerisation and automation at the Tencel plant and I envy Courtaulds for this . ’
9 We are running up Trundleys Road across the Surrey Canal when I suggest that this running could get us nicked by the police .
10 He said that 's when they put presents round and er he come in on the Friday on the Friday night and I mean I was in a right state , I mean we 've been in there about seven weeks and I was like at the point of like a nervous breakdown and he said to me how do you feel about me taking Matthew from you , so I said I he said I think you need a break .
11 However , so erm she asked me if I 'd go up and give her hand to sort things out , so I was up on the Friday morning and I said well you better phone the corporation and tell them that you 're moving out on Saturday morning .
12 I have just read the article on the Cessna 172 in the July Pilot and I quote — spasmodically — from the last few paragraphs of p22 :
13 It was written merely as a simple introduction to the Alexander Technique and I hope it has whetted your appetite to find out more .
14 ‘ I 'm very glad that all the Harlequins players were a part of the England set-up before I had anything to do with it ’ , said Best .
15 He should ask Chiltern , the Buckinghamshire district that I quoted , and whose refuse collection costs a great deal , why that should be so .
16 I need to know the wiring for the Nato socket as I intend to use it for towing my caravan , but will need to alter the wiring to suit or obtain another Nato plug and add the 12n/12s plugs to this .
17 So I map out a route over familiar country near home which takes in some old hedges and one-time mushroom pastures , hoist a gathering bag over my shoulder — and then curse the fact that the mid-October day that I have carefully planned for this expedition turns out to be the most dismal of the autumn so far .
18 I went to the doctor , but he just sent a letter to the Detox Unit and I had to wait three months [ for the appointment ] .
19 You are Henry Farr the Wimbledon poisoner and I arrest you in the name of — Hang on , hang on .
20 I was terribly excited of course , to win the BBC competition but I do feel that going into the theatre first was a great help .
21 the evidence that we 've found out already from C H C is that the operation of the N H S reforms has restrictive patient choice because crucially those referrals to London teaching hospitals which used to made as a matter of course if treatment is unable er , unavailable in Harlow have actually been largely stopped , I got the detailed figures from the purchasing director erm er , recently in the C F C minutes and it shows a miniscule number of patients being referred to London teaching hospitals erm , and this is clearly the reason as this points out in this paper that London teaching hospitals are in serious financial problems and four of them , indeed are being threatened with closure by the Tomlinson report and I think many patients in Harlow would much rather as er , people have pointed out , go to er , Middlesex and U C H , should they still exist than to go to Colchester and er , but this is this a key question , so on the the basis of the this consortium does n't meet those criticisms indeed , make the situation worse I move that we oppose it in principle that Vince reports on that line .
22 When we met at the Bacon show and I smiled at him he smiled back at once , then remembered and tried to scowl , but could n't and we both burst out laughing .
23 I said I did n't know , and thought no more of it and it was n't until David returned and was performing at the Arts Lab on the Sunday night that I remembered and said to David , ‘ Oh , by the way , while you were away I had a message — your father is not very well ’ .
24 We employ 30,000 people in the UK business and I speak to 15,000 of them every year in groups of 200 or less , because I think the Japanese have shown what good human relations can achieve .
25 It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food .
26 I came out of the army and returned to the Bideford Gazette where I had a year of my newspaper apprenticeship still to go .
27 Then I remember getting the Ramones album when I 'd just turned sixteen .
28 Shortly afterwards , he went off to the Demob Centre and I left dismally on my last posting to Scampton .
29 Ben described my ‘ wobbly ’ : ‘ You were bending down to tie your shoe-laces , dressed in the ENSA uniform and I turned to Lucy and said , ‘ Wait for it .
30 Well I went to see the Chippendales right and I 've never seen there 's seventeen
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