Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The moon rose high in the sky and shone unfalteringly into the woods , a silver goddess that I felt like worshipping . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Yevgeniev , the King of the Boards , was leading into the home straight but I surged past him to take the gold medal . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Recently I was in an equipment shop when I chanced upon a climbing friend . |
| 17 | I was sitting in the make-up chair and I felt like the ugliest piece of shit there ever was . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I only wish that someone had opened the exit door before I passed through it . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I picked up my lunch box and I walked to school . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 , |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Er I 'm a thirty four year old accountant work and I work for a a pi |
| 27 | I , you know I do n't mind , I enjoy handicraft but I find I 'm out Monday playing darts , I 'm out Tuesday doing handicraft and I look after a little boy who 's got Cerebral Palsy four mornings a week and comes three in the afternoon and it 's quite a lot . |
| 28 | I should make it clear that I am drawing on notions of an idealised business environment when I refer to unambiguous communication being the motive power which occasions accountability . |
| 29 | A light cloud cover in the late afternoon had given way to a lovely , pale , evening sky as I wandered through the town to its main tourist attraction , the red-brick basilica of Nôtre -Dame de Brebières . |
| 30 | This is what happens in the cases of textbook transmission that I referred to earlier : the teacher is required only to put into operation ideas which have already been realized as materials and is given no guidance in the evaluation of the validity of the principles on which the materials have been designed even when these principles are clear to the textbook writers themselves . |