Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [conj] i [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deputed to get his own disguise , he went off fuming to a wig shop : ‘ And the lady started to go through all kinds of salesmanship to sell me the wig and if I wanted to swim , I did n't want to swim , and I 'm sitting there knowing that this meeting is going to start very soon and I can not — lady , let's get on with it , I do n't give a damn , just give me a wig . ’ |
| 2 | " I saw a hare and after I 'd found the body there was a sparrowhawk , a kestrel . " |
| 3 | It gives me special pleasure to be present at the wedding of my good friends Annabelle and Steven , because I introduced them at the Dashing Disco/Royal Hotel/Country Club and because I have known both of them for many years at school/the tennis club . |
| 4 | ‘ Everything here will be available to Mr Riddle 's lawyer and if I have to take anything away I shall give you a receipt . ’ |
| 5 | Not in the grocery , I suppose there would be , I mean erm as I say I was never thrilled with the clothing department and when I did get involved with the deals , er I 'm afraid I was a political animal and I would 've have been more interested in the political side . |
| 6 | You see the piece I just read is a monologue and if I 'd known there was a competition for it I 'd have sent it there rather than |
| 7 | I said , more 's the pity and that I had seen the term both in the Petit Larousse Moderne and the Figaro Littéraire . |
| 8 | and there was a girl on and she said what is a bolster case and when I tried to explain to her she looked at me as if I lived in the ark and that was going back twenty years ago . |
| 9 | I speak on behalf of Playback not as Playback itself , but as Playback being part of the Regional Council that can a bit , now I was at a meeting this morning where I , I sort of absolutely had to read the riot act about Playback because they do not have a set budget whether you know this or not , they do n't have a standard budget as they should have , we 've fought for this for years , what we do is , we survive through crisis to crisis , now some money has been extracted from the Playback budget and whilst I have to share two bits of Playback , you know , the , the actual Playback charitable , voluntary bit , and the Regional Council , I mean they , I , I can say that they do not have a backing of money that they can fall back on , too many backs there , but I mean really I would say that I would be concerned if it was Christmas before we were ready , I , I ca n't help but think if we could and I mean , very , very happy to work with , with anybody and everybody on this to try and get these things pulled up quite quickly , I mean if it 's forms to be filled in then |
| 10 | They were spreading rumours that Mac and I knew the starter and that I had got away with a false start . |
| 11 | It would nt hurt to say ‘ Yes I m sory to leave Leeds and the supporters behind … but the club needed the money and if I had to join another club it would be Blackburn ( and onto the usual bullshit ) ’ Fuck me even Cantona said something nice about us . |
| 12 | She added , ‘ He 's very good to Margaret ’ , and I felt that simultaneously she had nodded towards the past while affirming the present and that I had fallen somewhere between the two : nothing but the body of a ghost , nebulous and deserted . |
| 13 | My attitude is that somebody has to do the job and if I get bumped off , I have experienced much more than the average bloke . |
| 14 | He has already asked for a return match and when I have had a rest I shall try to accommodate him . ’ |
| 15 | I had no intention to going into the art business and although I had done ‘ extra art ’ at school , I sully intended going on the stage . |
| 16 | I , I , I think this must be the hardest business to plan around in the market place Peter , because at the end of the day you 're chasing business , you , you 're looking for business and if I 've got an account , I 'll be honest with you , if I 've got an account tomorrow or , that rings in and it 's in for sort of Friday , yes , and that should be there , and I 'm out of the area Friday , I 'll go across and get that business , I 'd go out of my area and get that business , |
| 17 | I 'm a quiet person and when I need to sort things out I usually sort them out myself ’ , she considered . |
| 18 | By this I mean that the bait is only fished on the outward journey , the retrieve being of such a speed to bounce the bait across the surface and although I 've seen pike strike at these surface poppers , it 's a very rare occasion . |
| 19 | I am just an ordinary Daleswoman and if I began to think or act otherwise I know a few people around here who would soon bring me to my senses . |
| 20 | Mr D. Davidson turned out to be Alec 's father and after I had identified myself as an old school-friend of Alec 's — I allowed myself a little poetic licence in this description — he confirmed that Alec still lived in Strondonald . |
| 21 | As the Minister knows , I live in a rural area and if I want to go to hospital I first have to go to Paisley . |
| 22 | She knows that I have arthritis and if I do need a bit of support , Clare 's always there , unobtrusively , to give me a hand . |
| 23 | I told him that I was English , an ex-paratrooper and that I had come to be a legionnaire . |
| 24 | While I was speaking , Miss J. looked out of the window in a sarcastic manner and when I had finished she said ‘ thank you ’ very politely but with rather a sneering look . |
| 25 | but I can get in to Fram and if I need to go to the doctors I can get to the doctors which unfortunately is , is necessary our children . |
| 26 | My canoe had turned side on to the river and against the flow and as I turned to see what the noise was I realised that I had hit a log sticking out of the water . |
| 27 | It certainly was n't too late to tell somebody that in fact I had made a terrible mistake and that I wanted to go home . |
| 28 | Surely the needs of the members should come before the administrative easiness of putting people into sections for the Union and as I 've said who better to judge where they need to go and what their needs are than the members themselves . |
| 29 | Three months ago I purchased a Waterlife Nitrate Test kit from my local water garden centre and when I tried to use it consistently got a zero reading . |
| 30 | Limited which seemed mostly to involve advertising and but I 'd written off and told them their candidate was . |