Example sentences of "[noun prp] [subord] i [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat like a Hector until I suddenly remembered my stomach and began noisily to vomit . |
| 2 | ‘ He looks like bringing more success to Bangor than I ever achieved . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's that Midwestern winter as does it ; I was there in February once I nearly turned up my toes then except they 'd have snapped off … still it 's nice to have a banker dying early . ’ |
| 4 | I 'd just turned right off the B1 150 at Fairstead when I nearly crashed into the back of this unlit car skewed across the road . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ I do more in an hour with Glen than I ever have in two hours with any other coach , and the team as a whole achieves much more . |
| 6 | I hung on there until , well my fifteenth birthday was in the July and it was November before I actually left . |
| 7 | ‘ I did n't hesitate about working with Craig because I already knew him and he 's a wonderful guy . |
| 8 | I got a reproof from Dr Kelleher when I facetiously said I 'd grow geraniums in my gas mask . |
| 9 | One interesting side-effect of all this is that I 've seen more of Britain than I ever did before , albeit through the windows of an armoured car . |
| 10 | I mention Arnie because I recently saw , purely by chance , his latest flick ( Terminator 2 ) which opens in post-holocaust Los Angeles circa 2029 . |
| 11 | I was often called Hamlet because I so resembled my father 's appearance in his most famous film , the ‘ Coronation ’ Hamlet , so named because it had been released in Coronation year . |
| 12 | Just hold on Tim while I just sort him out . |
| 13 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |