Example sentences of "the [noun pl] i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As I heard the words I knew they were wrong , but could n't for the life of me remember the dolmen 's proper name . |
| 32 | A question from the floor : are there tribes whose lexicon lacks the words I love you ? |
| 33 | The ingredients I think we well know . |
| 34 | And , as the rain got worse during the rounds I thought someone was going to have to go off and build an ark . |
| 35 | He told students : ‘ In the auditions I ask them who came second in the last war and they say ‘ Ask the other fella ’ . |
| 36 | Yes erm listening to the punters I mean I know loads of people come up here and there 's one thing which all of them tend to say and that this place is threatening . |
| 37 | up and down the intervals I mean it is a bit of a muchness really . |
| 38 | ‘ In the circumstances I think we 'd be safer out than in , ’ Steve suggested cynically . |
| 39 | Under the circumstances I think his mother would have permitted it . |
| 40 | ‘ But in the circumstances I think you 'll have to , wo n't you ? |
| 41 | P.S. I would like for Monica Seles ' fans to know that there 's nothing personal in my mentioning her , but given the circumstances I think I am right in using her as she did n't commit herself to the Tour Events much last year . |
| 42 | When I first bowled to him in the nets I said it was like bowling to Zaheer Abbas . |
| 43 | From the reoprts I assume it was something like |
| 44 | I mean it going back to the days I think it was Professor Jode , it depends what you mean by class . |
| 45 | But it lives on in the poems we wrote together , and in the poems I wrote myself in Salamanca and Bath . |
| 46 | ‘ I 'll thank you to remember when you ever ate bad food , in all the years I reared you and there were no refrigerators . ’ |
| 47 | Over the years I suppose I 've become known as a dotty naturalist but I try to be rational and I think it 's a pity the Greens are n't more practical . |
| 48 | Alas , I was only just beginning to be visually aware , but to the extent to which I have grown in such awareness over the years I believe it was Basil and Ruth who started to make me look and see . |
| 49 | I 'm particularly the textiles I suppose I 'm I 'm quite keen on keenest on because I think we 're far ahead of everybody else with textiles . |
| 50 | He stated : " Haughey had retained all but one of the tapes I gave him , and at no stage indicated disapproval of the action that had been taken . " |
| 51 | I mean sh shame in the banks I mean we do n't get charges any charges from this bank , I mean if , if you er put it in some banks you get interest charge you on your cheques and all sorts of things , it , it 's as broad as it 's long usually but er I mean we are gon na accumulate money , I do n't think we should accumulate very much more now , we , we 've ample funds for everything we need er but it 's a question |
| 52 | ‘ All the things I told you about Petula … they applied just as much to a jealous dog as to a jealous woman . |
| 53 | Be before you were chosen by whatever process a number of us was asked to comment and one of the things I felt it important to say was that the URC plays a very important role both in being a bridge between all these nations but also serving a particular reform tradition within Wales . |
| 54 | This was one of the one of the things I asked him was n't it ? |
| 55 | I 've just been up to the Wembley exhibition of word processor , and one of the things I noticed there was the increasing number of processors and packages which I think you would describe as friendly or at least semi-friendly to , to help people . |
| 56 | ‘ One of the things I like you for , ’ the young man said , ‘ is that there is no pretence about you . |
| 57 | ‘ One of the things I thought we did agree was that we should not do the Government 's dirty work for them . |
| 58 | ‘ I 'll call for you after lunch , and we can go shopping for all the things I thought you 'd like to choose for yourself . ’ |
| 59 | I took the things I thought he would like ( not just the clever-clever things , like the perspective of Ladymont ) . |
| 60 | As time went on , to avoid a whipping , I learned to tell her only the things I thought she wanted to hear . |