Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [conj] i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where has tha' been since I saw thee ? |
| 2 | Where has tha' been since I saw thee ? |
| 3 | ‘ The greatest irony is that I thought he could help me in my research on rape , ’ she says . |
| 4 | and the biggest tragedy is that I know you know what you want to say |
| 5 | Well what really set my mind was when I lost my sister and my brother . |
| 6 | Why else should I still be yearning after a man whom I knew to be a murderer while shrinking from the innocent Syl whose only crime was that I found him unattractive ? |
| 7 | My Lords , I , I do realise and I have to be satisfied with that erm and I shall do my best , but if I could just make my absolutely clear , simple proposition that I was seeking to perform is that if you are seeking to amend the law i i it ought to be possible for those who are seeking to understand the Government 's intentions to find out relatively easily what the law is and I suggest it 's very far from easy and even if you get to it , it 's not at all easy to understand . |
| 8 | I think that the real reason that I wanted to do Total recall was that I knew it might make me famous which then might help me get better parts . |
| 9 | The other factor against a return was that I reckoned it only a matter of time before they stopped being DINKS ( double income , no kids ) and became WHANnies ( ‘ We have a Nanny ’ ) . |
| 10 | A worrying thing at the moment is as I said we 're in close contact with is that the Malaysian Government is sending representatives over to visit the European Community Ministers in May , to try and say that there 's absolutely nothing wrong with what 's going on in their country with the logging , and they 're saying that people like Friends of the Earth are calling for a ban on timber , not because they care about sustained yield , but because we want to be able to sell our own wood , and this is to depress their trade . |
| 11 | The difference is that I knew what I wanted and he did not . |
| 12 | The only difference is and I hope you 're not colour blind |
| 13 | ‘ The truth is that I fought what I felt for you for as long as I could , and even after we made love I told myself that I wanted you , desperately , but that you meant nothing more to me than an object of desire . ’ |
| 14 | Sophie smiled at her godmother , then , turning to Joanna , she said , ‘ The point is that I feel you 're disappointed . |
| 15 | My point is that I see nothing in the Gracious Speech to enable me to counter the opinions expressed by our European partners who are still proud to know us but bemused that we have a Britain which in their eyes is no longer as great as it was . |
| 16 | ‘ The reason I chose to come here for a job was because I thought I had relations here . |
| 17 | My first impression of the JMU was that I hope they do n't visit us , ’ admitted Robert Dicketts , South Eastern Society of Chartered Accountants president and partner of Sevenoaks-based Lee Dicketts & Co . |
| 18 | I was just having a word with one of your colleagues here trying to take up what Mr 's point was and I think we 've come up maybe with a compromise , is that we call him the County Public Protection Officer . |
| 19 | Well , the point was as I recollect it , er that my understanding as far as the County Council 's case was concerned , was that er the village was not inset for E Ten purposes , it was inset to recognize what the County perceived as the physical reality of this being a substantial built-up area which fulfilled no greenbelt functions . |
| 20 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 21 | Mr and Mrs are as I understand it entirely satisfied with that school . |
| 22 | I hope that the Minister is more successful with his new portfolio than his predecessors were and I wish him all the best in the difficult task that lies ahead of him . |
| 23 | and then the rest is but I know she 'll tell stories to make me laugh , the rest is the same as you 've just done , OK ? |
| 24 | I guarantee I can tell what kind of actor a person is if I hear them do ‘ Three Blind Mice ’ . ’ |
| 25 | The three and a half inch is as I said it 's approximately |
| 26 | ‘ I always tried to make Mojo more organised , ’ she says , ‘ but all that ended up happening was that I kept his diary and sent letters off for him . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm a businessman first and a boxer second , and the reason I 'm so successful as a pugilist is that I know my limitations better than anyone else . ’ |
| 28 | Life is as I thought it was ; shall we now celebrate this disappointment ? |
| 29 | John Harlow directed a series of films for British National , but probably his biggest success was While I Live which featured the very popular music the Dream of . |
| 30 | ‘ My main thought was if I offer him my car how will I get to work tomorrow , and also if I give him the car will I be able to collect the insurance ? |