Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [conj] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I developed so much skill that I could put together a 50 or 60 break and when I moved to York I played for the local Conservative club and reached the final of the York and District competition . |
| 2 | You tell me what you 'd like to eat exactly in future and if I feel like doing it I 'll do it . |
| 3 | You tell me what you 'd like to eat exactly in future and if I feel like doing it I 'll do it . |
| 4 | The others went in the car and when I arrived on the bike a little later they 'd been down the 51 steps to the house and found it like the Marie Celeste , everything open , radio playing but no-one around . |
| 5 | I see the sign saying Welcome to Inverness just as I remember where I left the car and where I left from this morning and just before I turn and stamp to the nearest desk and demand in my highest dudgeon to be taken to Edinburgh on a charted Lear if necessary or limoed immediately to the highest-starred hotel within a reasonable radius for a free overnight dinner , bed and breakfast and unlimited bar tab . |
| 6 | I almost floated to the car and as I settled in my seat Beamish put his face to the open window . |
| 7 | We was I said look I can read a bloody clock as well you can , I said I wa walking behind you down the , you went in the canteen and when I went past it was one minute past quarter to ! |
| 8 | J. Waller , Pears Terrace , Shildon : I was going to visit my granny and as I got to the bottom of the street there was a church or a chapel nearby which was flying a flag at half mast . |
| 9 | ‘ One night after a gig in Whelans , I went down to The Nightrain and as I came in the door I heard this note-perfect rock music , ’ he says . |
| 10 | It is now firmly established as the UK 's largest and most profitable food retailer and when I spoke to multi-millionaire chairman David Sainsbury yesterday he confirmed that he ‘ is on the brink of making a full scale onslaught into Scotland ’ . |
| 11 | I have got to have hope and when I look at Natalie . |
| 12 | Probably that I 'm a genius and that I look like a donkey — or something like that |
| 13 | You 're just a piece of shit and if I stepped on you I 'd scrape you off my shoe . |
| 14 | The schemata are gardens of meditation and when I think of poetry , I am taken to the far country of Li Po , and then I see Thoreau and Jnandas and Rumi and a hundred poets ; their images throng my mind and I am moved and tears come to my eyes . |
| 15 | Later on that day I was sent into the Corporals ' quarters with a mop and bucket and as I went in a Corporal came out buttoning his flies . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've always been very aware that I needed to give something back after this experience and when I read about the appeal for people prepared to give homes to the Bosnians , I decided it was time I stepped in . ’ |
| 17 | I listened to this tale of woe and as I dug with my tiny spade , wondered what I might find , an arm or perhaps a leg , but the only discoveries that I made were small pieces of coal washed up on the beach . |
| 18 | He will need my attention and as I note from his record that he is also a Roman Catholic by religion , he may also need the ministrations of Father Martin here . ’ |
| 19 | That more exact calculation has , I think , met with general approval and as I said in my statement about our proposal for council tax benefit in a written answer on 28 November , we intend to maintain that closer alignment in the wake of the changes in local taxation that are intended to take effect in April 1993 . |
| 20 | it 's always a bit a it came home to me with great a vigour and enthusiasm when I was walking round the kitting station at R A F Innsworth with a supermarket trolley getting it filled with kit and when I got to the end they handed me my dog tags and my gun , I thought what have I let myself in for because I 'd never worn dog tags before and I 'd never had a gun with live ammunition in it that got strapped to my hip and you suddenly realise , I 'm going into a real war it was quite a nerve racking experience for a few days |
| 21 | Generally and for the most part they 'll come up with the same sum at the end of the day and if I go to two different philosophers and say , erm can you tell me about free will ? |
| 22 | When I went to what was in effect not merely the memorial of the fifty aft after fifty two years of the people , but of course really the funeral service of the pit and when I went to that here was the chance to dedicate that also , we did it actually at the Memorial Garden where all the pit people are buried and that is right you see , picking up out of the past not sticking in the past , and arranging it as you might say as in that banner to move on into the future . |
| 23 | Well in that case sir can I take my my committal to Preston Crown Court and when I go to Birmingham |
| 24 | Yeah , erm I er , I 'd given up erm about se seven weeks ago , and I was told that it was an anti-depressant and when I came off the cigarettes it was just terrible ! |
| 25 | and she goes why , I goes well every time I got , when I went out the other night and when I come in the other night there was Helena with her arms round Andrew , so it 's not that I , I 'm worried about it but I just think it 's a bit tarty of her cos she 's fancies the pants off Pete and as soon as my back 's turned and Pete is n't there she 's all over Andrew . |
| 26 | Well but I mean that 's an example and as I say at this end where you 've no arousal you 're either asleep or dead , there 's no sort of performance performance of any sort and we talk about having those butterflies in the stomach do n't we ? |
| 27 | I knew that I possessed a sidereal compass and that I belonged to another world . |
| 28 | That night I went to the theatre and when I returned to my hotel , a quiet man in dark clothes was waiting for me . |
| 29 | This has not prevented accusations that Bantam shamefully exploited my illness and that I cooperated with this by allowing my picture to appear on the cover . |
| 30 | There were several cars in the drive and when I went into the house I saw that Mrs Rumney had a few people in for drinks ; people like herself — upper class and of obvious refinement . |