Example sentences of "[pron] is [adv] i [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos his is like I du n no Sweep |
| 2 | Good , carbon monoxide , s when when carbon is burnt from any of the fuels , petrol and sort of the hydrocarbons , burn them very efficiently and very completely you get carbon dioxide which is n't I mean it 's not brilliant but it 's not toxic . |
| 3 | If you wish to discuss any of the above in private , please feel free to call me — after one , which is when I rise , and before four , which is when I begin work . |
| 4 | If you wish to discuss any of the above in private , please feel free to call me — after one , which is when I rise , and before four , which is when I begin work . |
| 5 | Then I imagined Lewis , boots tied round his neck , for some reason suddenly resembling Shane MacGowan , skinning her jeans off , not me , and he turned into Rodney Ritchie , at home with his parents , unpicking the individual stitches of her jeans with a tiny knife , and the Ritchies all wore badly-fitting jeans and had denim curtains and denim carpets and denim light shades and denim wallpaper with the little rivets left on like poppers so you could just press paintings and photos onto the wall … except that Mr Ritchie looked like Claude Levi-Strauss , which is when I think I started to get confused . |
| 6 | SEVENTEEN , CLUMSY AND SHY — looking for a friend of about 17 to write to- Likes- reading ( Fitzgerald , Steinbeck ) , history , Lloyd Cole , Smiths , Duran ( my only weakness ) and animals ( which is why I don-eat them ) . |
| 7 | We want something very specific , which is why I welcome this specific day for the Bill . |
| 8 | These kinds of variations can seem very confusing , which is why I advocate taking the job slowly , one section at a time . |
| 9 | Such an initiative would complement the United Nations arms register called for by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister , and such an international responsibility is one that I believe Japan would willingly accept , which is why I commend it to my right hon. and hon. Friends . |
| 10 | ’ — Which is why I imagine Burun has taken steps to remind Artai that it is the ulus of the Kha-Khan to be the Lord of the Earth , ’ he said . |
| 11 | He is a different sort of great sinner , or essay upon the great-sinner theme , which is why I stress the aspect of return to the Vicious and tragic antihero who ca n't even call himself lazy . |
| 12 | ‘ I naturally believe that the financial profits of the drug-suppliers are offensive , ’ Ellen said , ‘ which is why I 've only used cocaine on a handful of occasions . |
| 13 | ‘ Which is why I 've spoken to the captain and put him in the picture . |
| 14 | ‘ The reason why we wish to purchase the property is that we obviously are n't happy to have a business concern operating in the midst of a residential area — which is why I 've come to open negotiations by making you an offer . ’ |
| 15 | Which is why I 've asked you to actually split this work organiser between the front and the back of the binder . |
| 16 | I have , I 've been asked a lot in the last twenty odd years and it 's only just recently that I 've seriously considered it , which is why I 've made this new album , Midnight Postcards . |
| 17 | But , go back here , it 's interesting that you point out something I had n't really thought about , which is why I tend to use typefaces that are sort of garden variety — printer 's types , as opposed to the sweller Berthold revivals or whatever . |
| 18 | I can think of nothing less appealing than climbing into bed with you — which is why I intend to sleep in the ante-room . |
| 19 | I was born , and there they were to form me , which is why I tell you more of them than of myself . |
| 20 | None of this is your fault , and a good degree of it is mine , which is why I lose patience easily . |
| 21 | The health boards in Scotland are very close to the hospitals , which is why I set considerable store by the approval that had been granted to the applications by the Grampian health board in the case of Foresterhill and by the Ayrshire and Arran health board in the case of South Ayrshire . |
| 22 | obviously preferable to get evidence given about the documentation which is why I advise , consider it necessary for your Lordship to familiarise yourself with it now . |
| 23 | Which is why I say we run the trainer trainer 's course . |
| 24 | Which is why I think naturalistic plays with domestic situations need very careful handling . |
| 25 | They spent so much time talking about gay things that they did n't actually have much time to do many gay things — which is why I think the really crucial thing that happened in the seventies was not the liberation of a particular sexuality but actually the liberation of a particular set of relationships through which people could enjoy sex , or not have sex , as the case may be . |
| 26 | I certainly do , which is why I think atmosphere , service , comfort and all the rest are quite as important as food and even drink . ’ |
| 27 | Which is why I think the government is authoritarian , why you have secret police and gulags and so on , because they ca n't afford to tolerate large numbers of people saying this is n't what the revolution was supposed to be about . |
| 28 | He was lovable at times , he was completely irritating at times , he could be quite frightening at times and , above all , which is why I think the kids related to him , he was so totally anti-establishment . |
| 29 | Which is why I think the country and babies is the answer . |
| 30 | I think it 's fairly broad headings that , which is why I think it |