Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [conj] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and the other may or may not of been like I said just the fact I 'm shaking your hand , weapon he goes and does a frenzy test but the evidence on those three were , was n't very , was n't very conclusive and it |
| 2 | All I could think of was that I knew that a Lee Metford was the forerunner of the Lee Enfield .303 rifle and almost became standard issue to the British army before WW1 . |
| 3 | I wanted it to be that I had n't really been that big before I left — in other words , prove them wrong . |
| 4 | So then I decided I would like to be that I knew there was a job going on the electricians , so I thought well I 'll I 'll go in for the electrical side . |
| 5 | Or it used to be until I got that letter . |
| 6 | That 's how I used to be until I had my brain overhaused last year . |
| 7 | Chairman chairman there seem to be when I looked at it there seem to a number of headings here that I could n't account for and I 've asked the chair of the finance committee , she could n't account for them either , and I think it 's , whilst I understand the reasons for going and I 'm sure we would have approved them , I think it 's actually quite important that all these small sums , wh when you add them up over this erm over this month and you look at them , are quite large over the budget that we have have already adopted and the things that we wanted to do , and it concerns me that some of these things which are maybe very sensible , actually reduce our effectiveness of doing things that the council 's agreed that they are going to do this year and next year , the seventy six pounds here , the thirty pounds later on , fifty four pounds for large thorn plants et cetera , et cetera , and a hundred and fifty pounds over the budget on the Christmas lights . |
| 8 | Well I was expecting to be when I got there . |
| 9 | She 's a very conceited woman , Pete the adulterous told me she was a very conceited woman and er Neil says I I I 'd have to talk to him to him about this , she could n't discuss anything with him she would lay down the law , that was how it had to be and I said no I said Gerry and I , I had no hesitation , as I said , in putting the boot in and Brenda and Dave take the same the attitude to children that you let them first of all when they 're small , you have to tell them no like you do not |
| 10 | Perhaps there used to be and I lost it . |
| 11 | I watched the smoky flame waver inside the place where the dog 's brains used to be and I closed my eyes . |
| 12 | Well it 's alright as long as it does n't get to be like I said it could , these are lovely stamps you know |
| 13 | Ah yes , but now that 's very interesting because that 's not the same as was the old regulation with the H N D recognition with Napier , and it used to be as I understood it that you had to actually be in membership and leave a period of time between doing the certificate and the diploma . |