Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [conj] i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the whole I hate spoofs and I like everything played straight . |
| 2 | Chatham has attractions and I think they would try and carry on , but the impact of the injunction sought on their businesses would be very significant and the probability must be that they would have to cease operations . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's just that Luke invited Heather and me to join him and his friends for dinner last night . |
| 4 | Hall then wrote to Palmerston , on 20th March , only one week after asking for the designs , saying that he would not include Donaldson as I think it very doubtful whether the new Department will be proceeded with , as I hope the Downing Street improvement will be carried out' , and two days later The Saturday Review in an article on the competition also suggested that the War Department should be moved to the Downing Street area . |
| 5 | That does n't really describe Denim but I think it does have a quality , something inhuman and plastic and mechanical . |
| 6 | But if it had been irradiated , well , let us put it this way , I would n't buy food if I knew it was irradiated . |
| 7 | We were driving north and I saw it at once . |
| 8 | Yeah , I know it still needs treatment but I mean it 'll try and get the swelling down a bit . |
| 9 | You shall see it will fall pat as I told you ’ ( V.i.185ff . ) . |
| 10 | These bodies My Lords are after all precepting authorities and I think it crucial that those who 've been elected by their local communities should be in a clear majority and I sympathise very much with the er proposition in this regard , set out in the Noble Lord , Lord 's Amendment number twenty-one . |
| 11 | As I was applying to art school I needed a reference so I told Vivienne that I thought I 'd ask Malcolm , since he was my employer . |
| 12 | David and I did have conversations about it and I told David that I thought he should get an accountant , or that he should ask for an account from Tony if he had questions about where money was going . |
| 13 | I also told David that I think there is a substantial difference between my vision of the Library and that of some other staff , and that this factor is the cause of much of the perceived difficulty between myself and others . |
| 14 | now I , I have seen foxes and I mean they are they are now in built up areas are n't they ? |
| 15 | I 'm glad it was one of my second-hand buys ; it only cost £10 so I suppose I 've had my money 's worth out of it a few times in the garden . |
| 16 | After twenty months of fighting , where twenty times I should have died [ Raymond Jubert admitted ] I have not yet seen war as I imagined it . |
| 17 | I says you 're picking holes , you 're picking holes and I says I 'll tell you what , that declaration of intent is last year 's declaration of intent . |
| 18 | Asked how personal development had been affected , responses reveal improvements in self-confidence , social skills and aspirations : ‘ it has given me extra confidence to speak at meetings , e.g. community council , community association meetings ’ ; ‘ it has brought out skills I never new I had ’ ; ‘ I have learned to work closer with people since I joined , which is a new experience for me , and become more tolerant of people 's attitudes and ways ’ ; ‘ I am more aware of my own attitude towards my group ’ ; ‘ it has given me more confidence in my own ability to learn new skills ’ ; ‘ made me do things that I thought I was not capable of doing ’ . |
| 19 | It was only on re-reading Szasz that I realised I had been touched on a sensitive spot — the struggle for individual identity — and that that spot was central to the problem of anorexia nervosa . |
| 20 | I think Frank was glad to have met Ryan and I hoped he was also slightly impressed with Hellen 's current friend , his future son-in-law . |
| 21 | By avoiding moguls and offpiste , I managed to enjoy two full weeks of skiing with the assurance that my knee would n't give way when I put my weight on it . |
| 22 | ‘ We did n't get the rub of the green and felt we deserved something , but we got zilch and I think it is because this Villa side are so good . |
| 23 | It 's not simply a matter of defying conventions although I admit I have been strictly brought up and I think it would break my parents ’ hearts if ever they came to know I was living with a man who was not my husband . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm pretty fit and I do like cycling but I expect I 'll be shattered by the time I get to the end . |
| 25 | Nor did I dare return until I thought you 'd be safely in bed , and no temptation to me . ’ |
| 26 | well your mum said to me well I 'll tell you the same as I 've told Con but I said I 'm not against the children or anything the children |
| 27 | I 'll savage Mona when I see her . ’ |
| 28 | And that was the day after ( heart going bang-the-big-bass-drum 'cos I knew what they 'd say ) I tried to get a word in edgeways when they finally fixed my GCSE options . |
| 29 | This sight encouraged Sid and I to increase our efforts to finish off our double trench . |
| 30 | I , you know I do n't mind , I enjoy handicraft but I find I 'm out Monday playing darts , I 'm out Tuesday doing handicraft and I look after a little boy who 's got Cerebral Palsy four mornings a week and comes three in the afternoon and it 's quite a lot . |