Example sentences of "i [vb base] [adv] [coord] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are days when I sit down and my mind goes back to prison , when I 'd be looking out the window , thinking , I wish I was out there , you know , doing something . |
| 2 | I slip through and my senses are immediately alive to a new intensity . |
| 3 | It was a wholly objectionable idea , it was rightly opposed by very nearly everybody who spoke in the debate and the Government has withdrawn from that decision and that I welcome unreservedly but My Lords a great deal that is objectionable remains in Clause two of this Bill . |
| 4 | I feel too tired to sleep so I play some Despot when I get home but my heart 's not in it and the Empire is still in a tattered-looking state after all the earlier disasters and I 'm almost wondering if I should start again but that would mean going back to the fucking dawn of civilisation and the temptation in Despot is always to swap PoV , which people who do n't know the game always think sounds sort of innocent , like some detail , but it is n't : you 're not just swapping point of View , you 're swapping your current Despotic power Level for something less , even if it 's a regional lord or other king or a general or royal relation close to the throne , and it is not to be done lightly because as soon as you renounce the current Despot 's PoV the computer takes over and it 's a smart fucking piece of software . |
| 5 | It , I go downstairs and my mother will make a big box of of tuna mayonnaise , I just get the tuna mayonnaise box , get some suga , you do n't |
| 6 | I think so and his dinosaur models his erm stegosaurus and tyrannosaurus he just loves them , Bobby , he , I think he 's sorry they 're extinct . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't have a lot of money when I come home and my parents , who are both on income support , are basically keeping me during holidays . ’ |
| 8 | As an academic critic and university teacher specializing in modern literature and literary theory , I spend much or my time these days reading books and articles that I can barely understand and that cause my wife ( a graduate with a good honours degree in English language and literature ) to utter loud cries of pain and nausea if her eye happens to fall on them . |