Example sentences of "[noun] i [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Obviously erm in in receiving those additional figures I accept what the in senior inspector says about not er opening up the need side of the debate but clearly is I think the er Mr from Harrogate is saying it does it does cast a question mark on the supply dimension of the debate in terms of additional and commitments coming into the the figures to meet the Greater York housing requirement . |
| 32 | the minute I saw what a mess she 'd made |
| 33 | Which helmet , oh the helmet I see him every morning driving to school . |
| 34 | You , you know that paper I showed you the , the reason that we 're making these recordings , it says so er words , so the normal words go on the state about and so they 'll know , they 'll know what the language was , why , in the nineteen nineties |
| 35 | This morning I boiled her a nice fresh egg , and she ate the lot . |
| 36 | about it and I did n't see her for weekend she gave me her phone number , Saturday morning I gave her a bell , said I would be walking the dog if you want to join me |
| 37 | Soon after taking up my job as cub reporter I bought myself a big radio and a gramophone and continued collecting recordings of Gilbert & Sullivan and classical music . |
| 38 | For the rest of the journey I told him the plot of My Fair Lady . |
| 39 | In turn I told her a little about my own background , as though we were out on a first date . |
| 40 | Before getting into my sleeping-bag I made myself a cup of cocoa , without milk , which I do n't much like , and with a generous lacing of whisky , which I do . |
| 41 | And the reason I call it a candid portrait is because I do n't think that the he may have seen somebody there with a camera , but he certainly was n't posing for the camera . |
| 42 | The Second Quartet , composed in 1951 , is a far more concise work in a much freer tonal idiom , mostly avoiding the elaborate texture which marks the earlier quartet : perhaps for that reason I find it the more memorable of the two . |
| 43 | There was some rather naff comments about the union people COHSE I mean what a shower . |
| 44 | I 'll have them on Friday , if necessary but Thursday I get you a packet down . |
| 45 | How I wished I could buy him a record-player for all those useless records , but there was no point in thinking along those lines , so in the end I got him a belt , made of different coloured woven leathers , very gay and rather spivvy , only of course it would n't look spivvy on him . |
| 46 | But he would concede nothing , and in the end I gave him a dry little bow and thanked him for the tea . |
| 47 | While he was in school I gave him every chance I could to play before an audience , both in the school and in the local YMCA . |
| 48 | Either way I thought it a nice gesture , and when I next caught his eye I smiled . |
| 49 | Big overlap on , especially on stuff like this about the dynamics erm do n't forget that sort of first sheet I gave you a long time ago about |
| 50 | As a mark of gratitude I sent her a food parcel which , she was good enough to say , miraculously filled the worst gaps in her store-cupboard . |
| 51 | ‘ Those papers I gave you the other evening — ’ |
| 52 | ‘ The map I gave you the last time . ’ |
| 53 | She loves those lacy things you know by and do you remember I I bought for them for Christmas I bought her a tissue box with that beautiful lace cover ? |
| 54 | It strikes me if we were to use these cards I forget what the wording is on Patterns , but er if we , dear supermarket manager , we would like you |
| 55 | finished that medicine I finished it the my chest , I still feel sick . |
| 56 | That was the first time I discovered what the word ‘ reputation ’ meant . |
| 57 | Each time I sent him a rewritten chapter , he sent back a long list of objections and questions he wanted me to clarify . |
| 58 | Du n no people have said like that will last a really short time or a really long time , but what 's considered a short time I know what a long time is , a long time is like sort of four months three sort of four months onwards in n it for like people our age , what would a short time be they ? |
| 59 | ‘ Yet at the same time I imagined what the celebrations would be like at Molineux . |
| 60 | It 's time I called it a day . |