Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] and i [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know I asked you to commit yourself , how much do you think it 's worth for me to do all this kind of work and he 's , you 're confused because you think I 'm actually talking about money and I take the weight off your shoulders by saying no it 's not actually money , it 's in the form of two or three names , people open minded like yourself , who I can sit down and discuss the whole situation with |
| 2 | ‘ Nevertheless , conditions in certain markets of importance to Volex give grounds for optimism and I expect the Group to make further progress in the current year . ’ |
| 3 | That 's right , it 's just that I worked , I think , yesterday I could n't get into erm , I just could n't get into and yesterday I must admit I felt really rough and erm , I thought at three o'clock I was going to have to ring Iris , cos I knew you were still out you see and at three o'clock I thought I was going to have to ring Iris er just to come in cos I ca n't like your head was my stomach was churning over , it was n't till , soon as I get some food in front of me oh I get , you see I did n't feel too cracking in the morning and I thought well there 's lots of stomach bugs going about and I thought well I 'm having one of them , and I did n't know what I fancied for lunch and I cooked the kiddies theirs , they had fish and what have you , and erm , I thought well what can I have , I thought I what , I thought I got a little tin of salmon there , so I thought right I 'll have a salmon sandwich and I had that and believe me I felt , by three o'clock I could see myself picking me up off the floor , I only got spots before my eyes as such , but , I just had , I had four , five cups of water , I did n't drink any tea , and I wish then , well I do n't know whether I could have felt any worse when I had the sandwich or not to be honest . |
| 4 | But er when we when that er train I er had I 'd written the postcard for home and I asked a lady if she 'd post it for me . |
| 5 | and er you see and , and anyway I finished up my holiday and the sergeant said , he kept his promise and er sent me a report over the newspaper , you see , and er and of course and I liked the Isle of Man , you know , I went for trips around the island and various places and er , and I did see a Manx cat |
| 6 | Well a variety of views and I think the only generalization I can make about weddings is that you ca n't generalize about weddings , some people think they 're wonderful , some people are sceptical , people have done their own er variations on weddings . |
| 7 | a couple of times , you know , people were up my arse a couple of times and I retaliated a couple of times |
| 8 | Mr Temple said O'Shea later made a series of ‘ bizarre ’ comments , including that ‘ after I died on the Cross my soul was sold , I believe , for a lot of money and I served the devil in Hell . |
| 9 | The wind drops slightly as I am making myself another cup of tea and I like the idea of going out to watch the sun go down . |
| 10 | Long fingering of manuscript and I thought the fingering . |
| 11 | I 'm not against the concept of co-opted members and I believe that they could add a useful dimension to any authority 's work , but apart from the obligatory brace of businessmen and I accept the Right Honourable and Noble Viscount Lord Whitelaw 's phrase and I quote powerful reference to a broad approach and new ideas and a fight against crime , but apart from the the brace er , er of such business people , they should surely come from representative sections of those communities which the authorities serve . |
| 12 | There were shrieks of laughter and I felt a thousand bruises rising . |
| 13 | It was not an act of war and I have no reason to believe that one of your countrymen was responsible . |
| 14 | Now , I 've been around for a lot of years and I know a bad girl when I see one . |
| 15 | He had a lovely hand , and wrote about him that ‘ this man has been my coachman for a number of years and I have no hesitation in highly recommending him … ’ . |
| 16 | been trying to look for a bit of paper and I opened a book today and found it ! |
| 17 | It was a clear night , but the radar was a mass of echoes and I asked the Belgian contact to give me an estimated course and speed of our quarry , and as a result of this we were able to pick it up . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , it is useful to distinguish between our various means of correlation and I make no apology for suggesting another term , just to draw attention to its usefulness as a method . |
| 19 | and up the steps out of the underground there was this lass there and I , I ca n't help it I mean I 'm always aware of the fact of having this twenty five year old child , so offspring and there was a girl roughly about his age or slightly younger and she was grey you know that translucent look your skin gets when you 're not eating properly you know that grey sort of pallor and I had an overnight bag in one hand and a briefcase and a handbag in the other and I remember I walked past her and she was begging and I had gone to the sleeper and I 'm sitting there and I 'm thinking you bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep , you could of put briefcase down , overnight bag down , handbag down and got some money out . |
| 20 | Thank you Chairman erm I do n't I need to say a great deal because the comments that have been made I think are very thoroughly and expertly covered most of the ground in terms of the the issues that are being raised and can I say that although er a number of Chief Officers , a number of departments and I suspect a number of committees will be looking at what has happened and er seeking in both to find out why it has happened and what might be done in the future erm I certainly recognize that it 's er a role responsibility of this committee and of er me and the Planning Department to consider the implications for strategic planning and for the related functions and that erm it wo n't be a , a , a happy task because er purely it 's something that all of us would have hoped had n't happened at all but I will er very er thoroughly er explore the issues and report it back . |
| 21 | The Prime Minister , the Minister of State and I met the leaders of the four main constitutional parties in Northern Ireland on 11 February . |
| 22 | Over Whitsun we were on holiday on the Isle of Wight and I dictated the very last corrections to the Green Paper to one of my overworked social security team from a public phone box in Seaview . |
| 23 | As an ex-schoolmistress I should have thought she 'd had her fill of children and I make no pretence at understanding them . ’ |
| 24 | My parents had moved to the outskirts of Glasgow and I joined the local pipe band and met Duncan McIntyre . |
| 25 | ‘ I then heard a series of shots and I saw a number of bodies being dragged away . ’ |
| 26 | Nastiest — Simon William 's Single Of The Week for the ‘ Frozen ’ EP — ‘ Curve stink of fabrication , reek of formularisation and I resent the ‘ Frozen ’ EP being f—ing brilliant . ’ |
| 27 | Now with the older West Indian people we would have you know , a passing sort of conversations and I know a couple of them came to help to get me to help them to fill in D H S S forms and things like that . |
| 28 | If you brought a bottle of white and I got a bottle of white ready , if I had n't opened it , I 'd open yours . |
| 29 | So they had me as continuity and I got the job and it was a bit of a struggle because I 'd always been traffic , traffic at work but this was a little bit different in that if you had to do more accountancy and I had to pick it up . |
| 30 | ‘ It was a marvellous privilege to play for Yorkshire and I enjoyed every minute of it , ’ he told me . |