Example sentences of "a [noun sg] and i [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember seeing a cable and I thought it was a telephone cable so I was n't worried . |
| 2 | Yes , I think , I mean , it varies from day to day , but as you say the rumours at the moment are that the is being upped a bit and I think it would be different . |
| 3 | We were talking I think this is the thing about clawback , er this year our erm receipts taken into account are two point three eight million as opposed to last year er this is taken into account we drew four hundred and seventy five thousand , that 's a huge jump erm the government by in telling us we can send this er this er what I call minuscule carrot erm this year er the capital receipts from November last year until December next year erm a anyone had undoubtedly for most of that back in the in in the use er er a grant and I think it , as the government have actually kept extremely quiet on this subject , that seemed to be the scenario that seems most likely to happen . |
| 4 | Then I , I put it in a saucepan and I stewed it the next |
| 5 | I mean , a lot of guitarists get into a rut and I think it comes from the fact that their pool of influences is really limited and shallow . |
| 6 | I think it was just a bug and I think it was caused by |
| 7 | Actually , I sent Felicity to Summerhill because I saw this awfully exciting film called The Alamo , starring John Wayne , whom I adore , and he makes this absolutely glorious speech in it which goes ‘ Freedom , I like the sound of the word ’ , actually it 's ‘ Republic ’ he says , I know that because it was on the television last week , but I 've always heard it as ‘ Freedom ’ and I read that A S O'Neill positively breathed Freedom , as indeed do all the Irish , I find , and one has to have pots of money to go there , which gives one — what 's the word ? — sachet , which you do absolutely need to get into Society these days , and Felicity ( her name means Freedom , too , from the Latin , you know ) was frightfully keen to go , and does n't the name simply drip June in , say , the Cotswolds , and Felicity says there are teachers there with nothing to do at all , so you can tell the staff must be tip-top — I mean , what luxury ! spare staff ! — and Felicity 's always been such a tearaway and I know it 's jolly hard but I do think one needs Discipline to get one 's Freedom , I 've always had it , and Republics too , and now I gather she 's been on television , and Felicity was absolutely swearing by the school or something , Angela says , and where is it — somewhere pretty — she goes by train … |
| 8 | It was mid-way between a sketch and a chat and I loved it . |
| 9 | We ran towards our target — King Kong 's massive back — without a hitch and I reached it just ahead of my friend . |
| 10 | ‘ We 're a group and I guess it was a video . |
| 11 | Maybe there was a picture of a tiger and I missed it . |
| 12 | ‘ No , no , I 'm a slavedriver and I know it . |
| 13 | There was a battered shovel standing against a wall and I seized it . |
| 14 | So I had a bath and I thought it 'd warm me up but I was , I was freezing were n't I ? |
| 15 | Peskibe continues to thrive , operational profits there are now well over a million a week and I think it 's worth remembering that one subscriber may have three subscriptions say to two movie channels and one sports channels and if you count these individually , it means that we now have four point nine million subscriptions achieved during the second worst recession , recession this century . |
| 16 | a few times a week and I think it sounded like three cos she was wondering how he would cope with driving and everything . |
| 17 | But it was not Maria ; a whiteness , a flowing whiteness , a long coat or a dressing-gown — I had only a second 's sight , but I knew it was a woman and I knew it was not an old woman . |
| 18 | He needed someone to throw him a lifeline and I decided it might as well be me . |
| 19 | I was a Sunday School teacher erm when I was in my secondary school and I wondered what God would want me to do with my life when I left school and I thought maybe he wants me to be a missionary and I thought it was only teachers and doctors that could be missionaries I was wrong was n't I ? |
| 20 | yes that was at quarter past eight Saturday morning and at ten to eight my aunty came at night and went fucking mad she said I want a dressing and I want it now , twelve hours ago I asked for that dressing and were n't done then came |
| 21 | IMC could , but there was no legal way to transfer information — so they gave me a virus and I implanted it into the starsuits . |
| 22 | It 's like playing for a country and I think it will always remain so , ’ he said . |
| 23 | In fact as rugby is concerned I am colour-blind : give me a rugby player , be it white , blue or yellow , with two hands , two legs and a bit of a brain and I love it ’ , Cunningham said . |
| 24 | Above all I do n't want to worry you : I 'd feel like hell on earth if you crashed on a mission and I thought it might be my fault , even to the tiniest degree . |
| 25 | In the old days people used to put ashes on top , but I prefer to use a utensil and I take it out on to the pasture . |