Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [conj] i [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have to find the money myself and they told me that the wackier the ideas , the better the response so I am hoping that my ideas come off . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ What pains me is that you took the opportunity when I was sick unto death to steal Prince Edward 's heart from me , ’ she said to Joan , having informed her of the plan . |
| 3 | ‘ The other man 's grass is always greener and I had the opportunity when I was younger to work abroad . |
| 4 | ‘ This news has justified the exams and I was thrilled when I heard . |
| 5 | I 'd never thought of myself as working at the NME because I was in awe of it ; I used to read it all the time , Tony Tyler , Charles Shaar Murray and people like that . |
| 6 | The last type of direction is that of directing your body as a whole entity — ‘ What is the direction that I am going in ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been coming to games at the Manor since I was 10 … not every week like but since three seasons ago I have n't missed a match — I 've been to them all . |
| 8 | and er when I was going through the change and I 'm post menopause er and having terrible feelings , I 'd nowhere to go ! |
| 9 | A local man offers to ferry me across the fjord and I am soon on the way to Holt . |
| 10 | I do n't know if you remember but ages ago , round about October time she borrowed some stuff for the Brownies , for erm , for Sian , Sian was going camping and she had n't got shorts or anything , so she borrowed it off me , I was thinking of Stacey starting , I wanted the t I 'm not bothered about the shorts , but I want the T-shirt and I 'm just gon na get Stacey the culottes and she can wear her shorts and the cardigan with it buy , when she first starts and then we could , Deana 's moving up to Guides this , so she can have that sweatshirt of er , I mean they 're nine pound |
| 11 | It 's got well , erm the programmes before I 'm gon na fast forward it . |
| 12 | I can not resist the admission that I was profoundly flattered when a telephone call from Harold Wilson at Downing Street invited me to mediate on the basis that , so far as they could see , I was for the moment the only tolerable candidate . |
| 13 | You 're the colonel , you 're the lieutenant and I 'm the sergeant . |
| 14 | Is it possible for some of us and perhaps representative 's of organisations or a group of us and I know I can talk to the board but I 'm not necessarily speaking for anybody else if I natter to you other than myself . |
| 15 | I must say that I really enjoyed my time in the RAF and I 'm convinced that for National Serviceman , the Air Gunner 's trade was the best way to complete the compulsory Armed Service requirement of the time . |
| 16 | ‘ One of the reasons you went to the cinema when I was a teenager was to pick up girls , but I never seemed to have any luck . |
| 17 | Asked about the daring six that took him to his century , Lewis added : ‘ I had got to 90 by attacking the bowling so I was determined to keep playing that way . |
| 18 | For even if we achieve the objective of a full franchise then the purpose of that full franchise will not work for disabled people if they do n't have full access to polling stations , they only then have the alternative of using postal or proxy votes and not exercising their franchise in the same way that able-bodied people er will do and their full right are part of the measure that I 'm seeking the house to agree that I should pursue . |
| 19 | There was a small basin filled with water at one end of the mattress and I was told to gaze into it . |
| 20 | But I lied about the afternoon and I was worried when you wanted to keep the betting slips because you probably know that one of the horses won and I would have won quite a lot of money if I 'd stayed in the betting shop . |
| 21 | Right , David , you said you 'd been approached by another insurance company , er , I could obviously say , I recommended Abbey Life , and I 'm tied to that , but I actually joined because I think they 're a particularly good company , in that what , in the use they make of the money that I 'm paying , actually goes , performs very well . |
| 22 | So erm the money that I was gon na you know , use for that I 'll use for the ticket . |
| 23 | That 's in the oh a lot of people did , oh yes , lot of people spent the money but I was one of the fortunate ones I had a little bit left because I mean I was , er I was very lucky myself , I mean I had a decent job at that time from time I left school and when I was on the dredging plant , I mean you take er in nineteen twenty five when er a schoolboy left school , his money was about ten shillings a week as an errand boy but I was one of the fortunate being a cabin boy on the dredger , I was getting thirty five shillings a week which was a lot of money and then after a few months they , I , they wanted another deck hand , so of course I went on there on four pound a week and then I was well off . |
| 24 | The kitchen was not done because the local authority could not produce the money until I was a tenant , and I was not a tenant until the builders had finished . |
| 25 | ‘ No , I came across the letter that had been enclosed with the money when I was going through my father 's papers after he died . |
| 26 | I mean I , I , there is actually an argument for having one meeting , everybody knows when it is and where it is , and if people feel they 're being left out or not b getting informed they should make the case that I am |
| 27 | ‘ This may or may not be the case and I am in no position to establish this , since as you are aware you and Helen have exercised total control both financially and in all other respects without reference to myself or any other director . ’ |
| 28 | It 's also the case and I 'm not trying to malign any part of the private sector and I certainly do n't want to be the subject of a libel action , but it is showing a tendency to grow in directions that are contrary to the hard won ideas of good practice in statutory provision . |
| 29 | ‘ This time an X-ray revealed the damage and I was packed off to hospital for surgery . ’ |
| 30 | We are really a little ahead of our targets on the field and I 'm sure things can only get better . |