Example sentences of "[noun pl] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It makes even worse reading and it distresses me to have to bring it to the attention of the House . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | Aunt , Thérèse whispered : it was , the lady in the woods I mean , when I got there , I saw her . |
| 4 | It 's this neck of the woods I do n't know . |
| 5 | ‘ Better get back into the woods I reckon . |
| 6 | Cos they we the woods I suppose ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But the other important element is that you have to reflect the style of the original , look at the notes I 've made at the bottom of the page , please . |
| 9 | However , as soon as we reached the interview for the home/school post a debate on the school and the community began again as shown from the notes I took where the main participants in the discussion were Phil Barlow ( the Deputy Head for Curriculum ) , Chris Cousins ( the Deputy Head for Community ) , Ann Thomas ( the Community Adviser for the LEA ) and Father Curtis ( the Chairman of the Governors ) . |
| 10 | For some time I had wanted to move further from London with its many social distractions , and now with the half million words of notes I had brought back with me from my world tour waiting to be distilled into a book , I felt the need more than ever . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , I wrote to him in rather a hurry , and did n't take copies of the notes I sent him . |
| 12 | ‘ I came to see you about some notes I sent your husband . |
| 13 | When I search a farmland site I always keep careful records , and looking back to my notes I started to search the areas where there had been the greatest concentration of finds . |
| 14 | That , wrote Harsnet , is part of the reason why I have chosen glass and not canvas or wood , that is why in my notes I have called it a delay in glass , which is to say a refusal of shit . |
| 15 | I never ceased to be astounded by how quickly and thoroughly he absorbed the notes I gave him . ’ |
| 16 | The following is summary of notes I showed you today , I do n't think Rob was in a receptive mood ! : |
| 17 | But of all I had read so far , nothing troubled me more than two notes I encountered towards the end of the seventh chapter . |
| 18 | In these notes I described the aims and origins of the scheme : |
| 19 | His people kept him monstrously short — ’ I ca n't wait till they discover the debts I 've made ; though as a matter of fact I can wait , it would be wiser too . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm in a lot of trouble with some debts I owe . ’ |
| 21 | there 's a thing on one of my cloths I 've got some on |
| 22 | As an in-house lawyer , my ‘ clients ’ are the company personnel I deal with regularly . |
| 23 | While the hairdressers I spoke to admitted the cult of the dominating hairdresser was strong in the last decade , they all feel it 's now on it 's way out . |
| 24 | The only outings I remember being taken on as a child were once with the school to the zoo and once by my mother to a seaside promenade . |
| 25 | One of Gary Speeds first outings I believe . |
| 26 | I also operate with the assumption that , although my results pertain strictly only to the sample of forty housewives I interviewed , there is no reason why they should not relate to the wider population of housewives , since it can not be shown that the forty women are unrepresentative of the larger population . |
| 27 | If this second approach is right — and despite my own biochemical enthusiasms I believe that it is — then the biochemical events that I study are likely to be very general processes of protein synthesis and membrane modification , sometimes described as ‘ housekeeping ’ . |
| 28 | It 's not cos she 's it , cos she 's like that you know I bought her summat , when ours were not , not very old , I did n't know what to get her and I bought her an ornament , she says oh I wish people 'd stop buying me ornaments I 've got too many , has to dust round them I thought you 'll get sod all next year |
| 29 | And silently my teeth I gnashed |
| 30 | What I meant was he 'd got just about the finest set of false teeth I 've ever seen . |