Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [conj] i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I used to do work for customer down the garage there he used to have two cars to hire and I drove one in my spare time . |
| 2 | I 'm thinking there might be something wrong with my plan to wait as I close my eyes ( only to rest them ) , but even as I yawn and put my hands into my armpits I think a spot of rest is n't such a bad idea so long as I do n't fall asleep . |
| 3 | It 's no exaggeration to say that I owe my start in politics to the G M B because after having worked , as Dick said , for the G M B for a number of years it was the support of the G M B which helped me win the nomination for Chesterly Street and in the early eighties I can remember when er the Labour Party was going through a difficult period it was officials and members of the G M B who were a steadying influence in my constituency , as they have been ever since . |
| 4 | Colm Toibin 's piece will be a hard act to follow but I suspect you are up to it . |
| 5 | I 've got things to do and I need your help to do them . ’ |
| 6 | My mother insisted on accompanying me to the tailor to ensure that I got something sensible . |
| 7 | I want to encourage such customers to complain and I want us to resolve those complaints quickly . |
| 8 | I did n't want Mary to go because I thought I would n't see her for a long time , and I ran over to her and pleaded . |
| 9 | ‘ The paths of your mind are mine to walk if I wish it , ’ said the Robemaker . |
| 10 | I think that there 's a lot for your Lordship to read but I think it might be beneficial in the long run , it was certainly , our experience has been that it certainly would take time in the long run but to deal with it this way . |
| 11 | After I 'd submitted it , I remember , someone rang from the magazine to ask if I minded her feminising 50 per cent of the pronouns . |
| 12 | It was a good tour to do and I think we learned a lot from it . |
| 13 | I think it 's a very , very difficult line to tread and I think it 's one that the university is clearing thinking about . |
| 14 | M. I gave you that book to read because I thought you would feel identified with him . |
| 15 | and I 've got three phone numbers to ring but I thought I 'd wait till the end of the week until I 'm about eleven and a half |
| 16 | Even so … there is reason to say that I saw him , even though I then neither made , nor could have made any judgement at all , either right or wrong , about who or what it was that I saw . |
| 17 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm still an embryo with a long , long way to grow until I make my brother understand … ’ — Helen Reddy 's ‘ I Am Woman ’ |
| 19 | I expect you 're tired — you generally have a sherry and a nap when you come home at this time , and , besides , there are those papers to correct and I hoped you 'd help me unpack . |