Example sentences of "[noun] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they grew up and went off into the wild I suffered dreadful pangs . |
| 2 | she 's older than Jan I think |
| 3 | The egoist might raise a further objection : granted that I do indeed suffer from a sufferer 's viewpoint , I generally feel very much less from other viewpoints than from my own ; then will not the inclinations I choose in obedience to ‘ Be aware ’ tend to be self-centred , even if they do not quite fulfil the requirements of a pure philosophical egoism ? |
| 4 | Bernard I think it 's up that lane you just come down . |
| 5 | But I was one with the solitaries of the spirit , too : with St Teresa and St John of the Cross as well as with humbler dissidents like Jordi and one or two other men of the working class I had known in Spain , the young bank clerk I had met in Cordoba the previous spring , among the orange and lilac blossom of Las Tendillas , where we walked and whispered , hardly daring to look at one another , and separating at the sight of police . |
| 6 | Turning back to the clerk I said , ‘ It 's my sister . |
| 7 | In my days as a Justice 's Clerk I saw enough corpses to know that death can grossly disfigure even the comeliest of faces . ’ |
| 8 | Erm I did say at the time if the Council agreed it was we would approve the new application it would only be if the original was rescinded and I did speak to the Town Clerk so there 's no need , I 'm not making a big issue , but I think the Council should be aware and the Town Clerk I believe has notified because again this is one of those things that could happen at a later date and as we all know if we have n't made these things perfectly clear . |
| 9 | You know that stripy T-shirt I 've got the |
| 10 | If I want a T-shirt I do n't go to any pile I go to the hangers . |
| 11 | Before they gave me a bike I had to earn it , I had to work in the garden . |
| 12 | When I did get to the bike I saw it was virtually in pieces and realised that Darren had been attempting the job himself . |
| 13 | Like a B M X bike I expect . |
| 14 | And I knew exactly the bike I wanted . |
| 15 | No chance to talk to Mum about the bike I dream of day and night ! |
| 16 | Aunt , Thérèse whispered : it was , the lady in the woods I mean , when I got there , I saw her . |
| 17 | It 's this neck of the woods I do n't know . |
| 18 | ‘ Better get back into the woods I reckon . |
| 19 | Cos they we the woods I suppose ? |
| 20 | He is very good , Mr , and he has been a county councillor in I think Staffordshire , before the days of pindown I have to er , hasten to add , but he does know both sides of the er , street as it were . |
| 21 | By the time I had replaced the telephone in its cradle I had realized in a sudden , terrifying swoop of misery that I was in genuine danger . |
| 22 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |
| 23 | I am also grateful to the Friends of St Cecilia 's Hall and the Russell Collection for a grant I received from the J. J. K. Rhodes Bursary Fund towards the research for this paper . |
| 24 | if you get the virginal I do n't think |
| 25 | I have n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing , but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the university and to sort of expand my contacts , and the Meeting House is one of those places which is open to the general public on Sundays for religious worship . |
| 26 | I had n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the University and to sort of expand my contacts . |
| 27 | A scientist I know is amazed how often his eight year-old son can see immediately through a tangle of ideas in a problem — the directness and uncomplicatedness and openness of the child is a huge asset which many adults have lost . |
| 28 | Of course — he pulled himself together a bit — as a scientist I find all these phenomena extremely interesting . |
| 29 | Now he does n't actually make the concession I think it 's consistent of what he says , that he ought to concede that direct democracy might be better at improving the citizens , because after all the citizens have much more to do on in service of the state but his view is that direct democracy has the opposite failure to guardianship , that while it might be better at improving citizens it 's absolutely hopeless in managing the affairs of the state and his reasons for that is that we need experts with experience in order to carry out the affairs of government and although these people ought ultimately to be held responsible to the people , people should n't sit in judgment them in every one of their decisions . |
| 30 | The other interesting runner I rode was Auntie Dot , particularly as she has the advantage of being schooled over a National-type fence on her trainer John Webber 's gallops . |