Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] and i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | okay , pretend that you 're that building and I want you to describe yourself and and I want the rest of the class to see if they can guess what it is and how long they take it they take to guess okay , and if you think you know what that person is , put your hand up do n't do n't shout out . |
| 2 | Now I do n't think of us here and neither , certainly myself , I I would not claim to be any form of artist or expert but I think a lot of us can enjoy er getting our hands dabbling with paint erm paper mâché and other activities and in fact having that opportunity of ex enjoying those experiences that 's we ought to be able to offer to people in Cambridge and many peop children in schools they they do get opportunities but I think particularly amongst older people who 've never had that opportunity and I think you should be do so . |
| 3 | ‘ She is also setting an example in these hard economic times and I think we should respect the Princess for this . ’ |
| 4 | Although erm I do n't think I like , I never use that term and I hope it passes over . |
| 5 | They snapped like burned-through twigs and I threw them away . |
| 6 | Okay Noel thank you for your er your time and being a good sport this afternoon and I hear you have a little one you had better go back and sort things out . |
| 7 | He arrived this afternoon and I sent him off to rest . |
| 8 | Well run councils will flourish as a result of this settlement and I offer them every encouragement to do so . |
| 9 | I 'm very upfront about being happily married — I 've brought Nick into the office a few times and I mention him in conversation whenever it 's appropriate . |
| 10 | They hand-made him this acoustic guitar and I thought it was really beautiful , so I thought I 'd like something like that . |
| 11 | The Bushman was following it , but suddenly he swerved aside and he went off in another direction and I followed him , although I could clearly see the buffalo hoofmarks leading off in the opposite way . |
| 12 | He was alone for just a few minutes and I made my offer . |
| 13 | That moustache is not an English moustache , the flower in the button-hole is from some foreign field and I fancy he does not care for his pickled egg . |
| 14 | I of course has to invent this ceremony and I did it in Latin as they do at Oxford |
| 15 | ‘ I realise you love this car and I know you 're tired , ’ she said , determinedly hauling him out , ‘ but I 'd be grateful if you could save this until we 're in the house and in the dry . ’ |
| 16 | Oh and I happened to be standing in the back kitchen you know and I got hold of this saucepan and I picked my little brother up and put him under my arm in case he got hurt and I oh I belted my father from his head to his feet with the saucepan . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm going to produce this movie and I want you to direct it . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I like the physical aspect of British football and I feel my game is suited to the Premier League . ’ |
| 19 | The last but one day of this programme and I hope you are feeling good . |
| 20 | One very quick point , sorry erm I do n't want to sound as if I feel I can but er I welcome your comment at the beginning the condition be be left out on what 's going on because I thought this was actually the key function of this committee and I mean I see these are being decision has been taken . |
| 21 | I have met another girl and I think there could be a future for us together , but I am frightened that the same thing might happen . |
| 22 | And we had a neighbour named and he 'd worked at E T N S all his life and had some influence and I mentioned it to him and he asked me , asked me if he could find me a job . |
| 23 | Coun Len Douglass said : ‘ He has obviously been told to stay away by the Labour group but he was there in a civic capacity and I find it very sad . ’ |
| 24 | I I asked the er the minister earlier about this question and I appreciate his difficulties being a home office minister rather than a foreign office minister and I quite understand his reluctance to er stray too far from his departmental portfolio but the reality is that the British government agreed that the European parliament should continue to meet in Strasbourg but we 've heard nothing from the minister as to where the money should come from er in order to make that commitment a reality because I 'm sure that every member opposite would say that the uncertainty about the present boundaries is not the er responsibility of the British government , that it 's a matter for the French government to sort out which boundaries er will be in place in the United Kingdom by June the ninth , the date of the European elections , but the reality is that the British government have gone along with the arrangement for having Strasbourg recognised as a er seat for the European parliament . |
| 25 | Old one old ones just used which was at the bulb in every hen house and it was free range and I think there was nothing better than that . |
| 26 | ‘ Graeme has the ability to become a top-class performer and I rate him highly . |
| 27 | I have a granddaughter now going up to Burnt Mill and I think myself , they could n't have done any better in the grammar school . |
| 28 | erm she was hefty though and her sister Ann used to be enormous years ago this is , and erm she went on a , a diet , I do n't know what , how , how she lost the weight but she did and I , I had n't seen her for some years and I remember her coming to the factory this day , and she came in and she , she used to do er her flower shop , she used to do flower arrangements and the girls at work would order them you know ? |
| 29 | I 've gained a great deal of experience these psst two and a half years and I think I could manage a stud farm quite easily now . |
| 30 | You leapt for the cleaner banks and I allowed myself to be carried on by the filth of deceit , of shame , and of a guilt that even now I can not put into public or private words . |