Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] i [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only when I got home and looked up the dictionary that I realised what a gem it had been . |
| 2 | So I feel happier in my mind if I do it every day . |
| 3 | Then I , I put it in a saucepan and I stewed it the next |
| 4 | In fact , I only met one decorator … a young couple wanted to buy a piece and I offered them a discount as they had n't got a decorator - at which she drew herself up and said : ‘ We are not married . |
| 5 | I gather this is normal practice but I find it a little unreasonable . |
| 6 | He wanted work and to pay for the damage so I offered him a job . ’ |
| 7 | Well I mean it 's gone much beyond that I mean they the reality of the situation is er is not like that I 'm afraid I mean it Eighteen men have been sacked and and these are men that have put those quarries where they are . |
| 8 | It was suggested at the recent meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council that I send you a copy of the objections made by the Parish Council to the siting of a communication mast on land off Higher Lane , Scorton . |
| 9 | Nine years have passed since my divorce and I tell myself the half-forgotten betrayals and deceits are old news . |
| 10 | We stroll arm in arm to the nearest pub and I buy him a freedom drink and lunch ; a pint of stout and a Ploughman 's . |
| 11 | They said they would not let my back into the village until I got them a ration card and some wheat . |
| 12 | The Sheriff asked me the same question and I gave him the same answer as I have you . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Make yourself at home while I fix you a coffee , ’ Alex said , ‘ then what would you like to do ? |
| 14 | that do explain a little bit about Abbey Life products and also have a copy of as well erm they might find that of help before I give them a call . |
| 15 | Well run councils will flourish as a result of this settlement and I offer them every encouragement to do so . |
| 16 | At the door he turned and gave me a last despairing look and I saw him no more . |
| 17 | ‘ It was very hard work for that sort of money and I consider it an insult , ’ Austin said of the earlier award . |
| 18 | He was a gentleman doing his job and I bore him no malice . |
| 19 | Micky Danby is a pratt and I owe him a few scores meself . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Tell me , ’ he complained , ‘ what would be your reaction if I told you the moon just fell out of the sky ? ’ |
| 21 | Recently I 'd been punched and kicked to the ground by a teacher because I called him a queer . |
| 22 | But he was always having fun so I suppose its the imagination that counts is n't it . |
| 23 | ‘ He called me a name and I called him a name , ’ said Ditka . |
| 24 | There she was lying on the floor with Bonfire of the Vanities under her head and me giving her a gentle kneading — spelt with a ‘ k ’ dear — and we were getting quite absorbed when all of a sudden the door flew open and in he came . |
| 25 | So , we toast the railway station and I tell him the only Czech joke I know . |
| 26 | Clearly it was I who should have spoken these words , but already I had a feeling that I knew what the brown paper and the ribbed cardboard concealed , and I was n't going to say a word until time or circumstance compelled me . |
| 27 | And so it went on in what was styled — even in the ranks — as the Baldwin Air Force , and it was in this environment that I found myself a mere fragment within a daily expanding Air Force . |
| 28 | I went to the flat and I got myself a job working in Woolworth 's in Reading . |
| 29 | He sank into a fireside chair and I poured him a small medicinal quart of Absinthe to steady his nerves . |
| 30 | And then , all I 've done is worked out some time management and say well if these guys turn up at half past eight every morning and I give them a break at ten o'clock , and they get a lunch break and then in afternoon , another break , and they finish at half past four , if everything goes to plan , by four o'clock Friday , my van should be backing up at the end of the production line to load itself up with a thousand widgets . |