Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] i [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now Ellen the time I have long awaited has come and I write to tell you that an Italian maidservant by name of Gigia who is travelling home to Florence having been in Scotland with a family who are friends of the Brownings is to come to you to collect Oreste and take him to Liverpool where she will be joined by Mr Ogilvy and from whence they will sail for Italy . |
| 2 | No I 'm actually quite surprised at myself I 've got two Clippers and both of them I found and I 've had them for ages . |
| 3 | ‘ When I 'm away for more than six or seven days , the pang starts and I need to see her ’ . |
| 4 | I do n't know what 's happened lately — the machine has either taken notice and chosen to behave or I have mastered it at last , because I have managed to finish two sweaters this week ! |
| 5 | Yes , I mean I agree absolutely with what Michael says and I want to extend it . |
| 6 | She said when you came and I rang to confirm it all she said you 're very lucky because he agreed thirteen pounds and we do n't do it for under fifteen pounds now . |
| 7 | And when I 've expanded and I 've told you then I then come back to my ending and I say , okay so what I 've done I 've told you about three aspects of flying , about the safety of it , ab about the costs involved in taking part in flying and about the enjoyment you 're gon na get out of flying and I hope that I 've persuaded you that you will come along on Saturday to take part , and that 's the ending . |
| 8 | I had a little money saved and I began to use it up . |
| 9 | And I think even while we 'd been in Opposition , remember no one knew whether we were going to win or not , it surprised many people when we did , there had been some sort of discreet across-the-fence interest at the professional Civil Service level in some of the concepts that we were developing and I 'd made it a point of writing the occasional pamphlet as our thinking went along to send out smoke signals to everyone including the civil servants as to what we were about . |
| 10 | one step to another and the hospital , the hospital and I went up to Maidenhead hospital and they said do n't stretch , do n't bend , do n't lift , do n't carry and I said thank you I 've got a school girl , a toddler and a new baby , and I did n't bother to go back any more |
| 11 | and then I had to work with these people and I knew that that was the kind of way that they were operating and I had to teach them by the way I worked but in fact it was okay to admit that we do make mistakes . |
| 12 | I said what he 's given and I 've repeated it back to him . |
| 13 | This was the most overwhelming experience I had ever had and I wanted to understand it . |
| 14 | Er I think our position is that we provide as you know , air defence through a layered system er of air defence aircraft and missiles and the simple truth is that in the light of the changes in the strategic er setting , particularly er as it affects U K air defence , we have decided that the provision of a medium defensive layer , that is the M sound system to which you refer , is not a high priority at the moment and the programme is therefore being postponed and I have to emphasise it 's not been abandoned . |
| 15 | I have told you time and I have told you time again , but you will not learn . |
| 16 | so I wanted to try and go for the C C Q , this is it , this is what we 're gon na ask you and of course it did n't work but I had to try it to see . |
| 17 | It was actually obvious that a burglary had occurred but I refused to take it in . |
| 18 | I did not threaten to resign but I did make it clear that I would not endorse changes I could not justify . |
| 19 | I spoke not to an individual child but to the head of school in Hatfield where the scheme was piloted and I have to say he was , he neither rhapsodised nor condemned . |
| 20 | B , retired persons that was the right answer , right , B , retired persons was the right answer , now some of you put D , anyone not gainfully employed and I did think I 'd explained it clearly |
| 21 | Then she asked me what I was going to do and I had to say I wanted to go with her . |
| 22 | I know but I 've turned it off , so my electric bill will be sky high . |
| 23 | one of them thingies , one of them jacks , and then you 've got one of them , I do n't even , I do n't know what they 're called but I 've seen it before |
| 24 | ‘ I sat on my bed and he sat by the door and we talked and I tried to persuade him to use his money to educate himself and he said he would but I did n't feel convinced . ’ |
| 25 | and they were losing and I went to spur them on . |
| 26 | And Evelyn knows I am coming but I forgot to mention you 'd be with me . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ But this situation will never change and I 've told them I do n't want anyone involved in unsavoury incidents . ’ |
| 28 | It 's me throat at the back er keep and I try to clear it and I ca n't . |
| 29 | I know the time is slipping and I hope to get it done in the next two weeks . |
| 30 | I came into a bit of money when my grandmother died and I decided to put it to good use . ’ |