Example sentences of "a [noun] i [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Dottore , I strongly resent the assumption that anybody is in a position to dictate to me what is or is not relevant to a case I am investigating . |
| 2 | Turn it down a bit I 'm expecting a phone call in a minute , but I think I 'll have one . |
| 3 | Can only have a bit I 'm having |
| 4 | It 's a bit I was thinking of doing it wider . |
| 5 | So take away a positive I 'm going to take away a positive ten pounds away from you now . |
| 6 | On a course I was running , one of the exercises was to role play a meeting on the sensitive subject of company cars . |
| 7 | So anyway I went to Index cos I want I want and a watch I 'm looking for a watch cos , and I thought oh aye I come to rings , I thought well I owe her a ring so I thought oh better half eternity ring they 're cheap anyway . |
| 8 | ‘ If rhythm 's a drug I 'm hooked on you/Show me every move/We 've got perfect motion ’ — just like Madonna or Betty Boo at their best , this is pure and damn-near perfect pop , and for once it 's even better in the flesh . |
| 9 | Not mega yet , but I am such a fan I 'm pushing him high . |
| 10 | By the time we are all set to go to a club I am teetering on the brink . |
| 11 | As a result I was ridiculed by the other children . |
| 12 | As a result I was bidden to Clarence House for a pre-lunch gin and tonic with her and Princess Margaret . |
| 13 | As a result I was having tantrums . |
| 14 | Can I put in a bid I 'm working with er er Dave Williams on the launch of this drugs hotline and there 's a need to do quite a large mailshot of the posters in the |
| 15 | For a second I was mesmerised by the chasm before me but as the only way I was going to fall was it I made the effort to jump , I realised that I was actually enjoying the thrill of imagined danger . |
| 16 | I 'll come , wait a second I 'm coming . |
| 17 | Even when I was a child I was entranced by her . |
| 18 | As a child I was kept at a distance from her , because of rifts in the family . |
| 19 | I was never a child I was born bald . |
| 20 | As a child I was given a grey plastic gun as a birthday present . |
| 21 | I grew up close to my godmother so as a child I was inoculated with the theatre . |
| 22 | As a child I was taken to the dread Hector McDarroch in Glasgow and he did my dental work right up to my teens Friends of my youth tell me that he inspired a similar lasting fear in them , too , and in fact there must be a whole generation of Glaswegians who feel the same . |
| 23 | Anybody call out yes , it 's a question I 'm asking you . |
| 24 | ‘ You can carry on doing my washing , if that will please you — and knowing you as I do , I do n't doubt you 'll be in here at least once or twice a week clearing things up and telling me what a mess I 'm living in — just as you do now . |
| 25 | A girl I was seeing pretty regularly had gone to France on an exchange visit to Tours I took a job for a couple of weeks in a lino warehouse with the idea of getting some money together |
| 26 | When I look back on my marriage I ca n't believe what a fool I was to allow myself to stay in that situation . |
| 27 | As a boy I was given a little patch of our garden to cultivate . |
| 28 | ‘ It was just a session I was booked for . |
| 29 | Oh yes , well I , this is a Committee I 'm talking about , not , not just myself , the whole Committee . |
| 30 | I 'm going to be lively until I get a cat , if I do n't get a cat I 'm going to be lively for ever . |