Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [conj] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I needed some comfort after the election result so I turned to it for some like-minded thought .
2 Er we are confirmed in our reservations about this by the results of the regional census study as I noted in my brief commentary N Y three .
3 It was a drizzling spring afternoon and I paused on the steps to button my coat .
4 Did n't trip over your car in the car park when I arrived at seven this morning . ’
5 He subjects every item of expenditure within his control to the question : " What is the investment opportunity if I approve of this expenditure ? "
6 Because I went up to their fabric department and I want to after Christmas I 'm going to wash all the covers on the er settees , you know er the dralon .
7 Well , I dropped in one evening , a summer evening it was , as I recall it , after I 'd been to dinner at the Chelsea Arts Club and I felt in urgent need of a little female company .
8 Er I just ringing through to say that I heard your er broadcast last week in respect of Carnfield Hall and I went on Saturday afternoon a gentleman named Hugh rang you up .
9 All through the '70s I 'd wanted to be in a rock band and I ended up doing it and it was nothing like as exciting as I 'd imagined it from reading and listening to records .
10 She said , ‘ Well , if there 's nothing else for it ’ , and began to fold and manipulate the wedding dress while I stood like a doll , cold and alien and powerless .
11 The moon rose high in the sky and shone unfalteringly into the woods , a silver goddess that I felt like worshipping .
12 Erm I support I V F treatment and I sympathize with the people that ca n't have children erm but my concern would be with the childrens ' right .
13 After breakfasting with the mortar team I made my way over to Brigade H.Q As I passed along the wall of the orchard I suddenly thought about the Frenchman and his family who lived in the cottage on the other side of the wall .
14 I come to the two-metre-high brick wall which surrounds the estate and feel my way along it , stumbling over piles of earth and building debris until I get to the corner .
15 ‘ My aim to continue to build up a specialist UK and International Tennis Consultancy and I want to be associated with marketing and promotion in the sport and leisure indoor development areas ’ , he says .
16 An action was instituted — the only libel action where I acted for Harold Wilson which came to court — and I thought it wise to brief a member of the Opposition to act as counsel on his behalf .
17 Yevgeniev , the King of the Boards , was leading into the home straight but I surged past him to take the gold medal .
18 The man walking towards England , towards our curious eyes , and towards the warm winter overcoat that I held in my hands , was not Flaubert the writer , though he had a similar grey moustache , two double chins , and not much hair .
19 Recently I was in an equipment shop when I chanced upon a climbing friend .
20 I was sitting in the make-up chair and I felt like the ugliest piece of shit there ever was .
21 There are thousands of police officers in the 17 drugs wings who are accountable to the police authorities , and my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary and I come to this place to answer questions about them .
22 I only wish that someone had opened the exit door before I passed through it .
23 all the consultation that also talks about in this paper is met with the two centres , the management committee of Highfields youth and commune centre and also the users of the Moat Centre and I think in light of everything that 's gone on I think it 's substantially a success to stand here and say that we have at least achieved some result and I I formally would welcome the Libs supporting this this afternoon and I 'm grateful for the turn that the Libs have made and in light of er what er Mr the involvement Mr has put in .
24 I picked up my lunch box and I walked to school .
25 amazed I actually did erm what happened erm I was happened to be upstairs and my wife shouted quick quick there 's a zither , so I zoomed down here and the lady was still talking to you and a dialled well consequently I did n't get through for quite some time but I did eventually , erm your lady on the reception said well it 's gone now she said but I will give the lady 's telephone number and I spoke to the lady and told her the position and she says well if it 's not collected by so time I 'll g ring you back and I said well I 've been after one for a long long time she said well I ca n't understand it cos I 've been advertising it .
26 He was exiting the Commons Chamber at the end of Prime Minister 's Question Time and I happened to be walking along the corridor which he was entering .
27 And it merely occurred to me , actually I was sitting in the unemployment benefit office and I said to them er er at one of my interviews ,
28 I feel my heart pounding as I think of her , and I can not push from my mind a strong feeling that something has happened to her .
29 Er I 'm a thirty four year old accountant work and I work for a a pi
30 That 's one thing Ted Heath and I have in common .
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