Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] i [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of Crossman 's cardinal convictions was that Britain was run not as a democracy but as an oligarchy — and that view of his was perhaps partially reflected in my own youthful outburst against the essentially incestuous relationship between politicians and journalists that I thought I had discovered even within the people 's party . |
| 2 | As I entered the committee room from the standard uncarpeted passage , I was given a friendly and businesslike handshake by the chairman , Lord Franks , who had courteously got out of his chair to greet his witness — an unfailing politeness that I gather he extended to every other witness . |
| 3 | I only had four laps practice so I suppose I did all right finishing sixth . |
| 4 | [ reading ] " I always thought my young master a fine gentleman as everybody says he is , but he gave these good things to us with such a graciousness that I thought he looked like an angel . " |
| 5 | Very pleased to have yours and as I said in my last it 's your money , God has been very kind to you and you must n't fly up in the face of his kindness and I wish you had not taken this step , your Uncle Steve says property 's more trouble than it 's worth . |
| 6 | Erm you had a statement of Barbara 's , if it was in there , it was planned so that you crew can work harder erm although you filled in the bonus question well , the there was a tend dangerous tendency for you be sucked in to go into the bonus and I think you did well to say yeah well we 'd better walk along to that so you held out which was nice because if I had if you had n't tackled that you might have been shown the door once you 'd gone through that . |
| 7 | ‘ I could see how dark it was and it was on my mind and I thought she rushed a little bit but it worked in my favour , ’ said McNeil . |
| 8 | On the whole I hate spoofs and I like everything played straight . |
| 9 | Richard and I thought you had settled so nicely ’ — as if I was some sort of jelly — and then , ‘ Well , if you really want to , I suppose it would be nice for you to earn a little pin money . ’ |
| 10 | We did meet briefly in the doorway and I think he said something . |
| 11 | My father sent me the cheque , needless to say , so David and I thought we 'd better get married because that was the reason he sent the cheque . |
| 12 | and Newsbeat dinner piece and I expect you did as well , erm but you know , she was , she was talking about contacts and things like Good Morning Scotland and all of the rest of it and I do n't think any of that kind of happened |
| 13 | I have never met anyone who heard that broadcast , but the Indian superintendent and I felt we had seen the job through to the end . |
| 14 | Well it 's roughly about five pound and , one pound and I thought he said one pound forty a pint . |
| 15 | The reason I am interested is that at that time I was off work for six months and I suspected I had the illness . |
| 16 | Lord Hulton was waiting at the entrance and I thought I had better warn him . |
| 17 | I cried after the girl had gone and he seeing my distress and I explaining I feared your anger he put his arms around my neck and comforted me and said he was sure his real mother could not but love her sister and believe she had acted for the best . |
| 18 | We got turned over last Saturday but I thought we showed great character out there today . ’ |
| 19 | I stopped going after six months because I felt I 'd resolved my immediate problem , and it had become a drag and an effort , largely because I had a problem with the silences . |
| 20 | A few months after I left I met someone else and we had a wonderful relationship for a few months , but then guilt reared its ugly head and Marie persuaded me to go back because I 'd left her with two children . |
| 21 | I have took alopecia before I mean I thought maybe |
| 22 | It was only when I looked up to my right and saw the board that I realized I had come to the right place . |
| 23 | I made it clear on a number of occasions over recent years that there was , in retrospect , one change that I wish we had not made at the time , but it was one that was urged on us by right hon. Gentlemen opposite . |
| 24 | ‘ In those Go-away times that I knew you had I should have guessed you needed help . ’ |
| 25 | And that was the film with the scene of the boy coming into the bar that I said I thought of when I saw Boy coming in sometimes . |
| 26 | It it goes further south than I thought it did . |
| 27 | And I said no , I was going to , she said I think you have , she said , because you 've moved the ballerina and I did I listened to it . |
| 28 | ‘ He said he 'd buy me a Pepsi and I said you said I must n't talk to strangers , and I came away . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Benny and I saw you captured . |
| 30 | It is about four miles to the Port of Ness from Cross and I think I tiptoed the whole way . |