Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] i [verb] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then that question was asked last night erm from one chap about sport versus the arts and I suppose to me it is a quality of life issue erm where do you start an and stop I mean you have a problem when you have a recession do n't you , where you say okay we i we are in a recession we have got limited resources we have to make decisions . |
| 2 | ‘ Is that a promise , Chris , or will I have to wait another six months before I bump into you — literally ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I just looked at my books when I felt like it . |
| 4 | Erm , I pressed yes for having liking my own body , and I do , erm but I also like the slight improvements that I make on it like erm my hair |
| 5 | I hope they will never feel as frustrated with their parents as I felt with mine . |
| 6 | I 'm Nick and I 'm the development director for Moat , responsible for all of our new development activities and I have with me tonight Sally our assistant development manager for Essex , who 'll be responsible for this project and also two of our consultants dealing with the scheme , Alan from Anglian Design who are acting as architects on the scheme and Howard from Space , who have been acting as our employer 's agent and consultant and will administer the building contract for , for all the phases of this , this project . |
| 7 | I entirely understand the strong feelings of the hon. Gentleman 's constituents and I sympathise with them . |
| 8 | Er I myself and many others were here for two and a half years and I submit to you that this is a considerable portion of one 's adult lifetime and consequently , the experiences of the last three days have been very meaningful and very moving to those of us who did spend such a portion of our lives here in this place . |
| 9 | The English pigeon devouring the remains of the couscous , without a pause , immersing its whole beak and head in the grains while I smiled at it , saying : ‘ You seem to like couscous from a packet . |
| 10 | He was so strong a character — and he meant so much to me — that although it 's many many years since I worked with him , he was in a way always there — it has been a strength in reserve — that there was Basil if you needed him . |
| 11 | So we 've been down there a few times but I said to you did n't I ? |
| 12 | I do not mean it in any ideological sense or historical sense or to be provocative but it 's very , it 's with very deep feelings that I speak to you today because you may not understand it but for me , after thirty three years in exile I was able to return to South Africa in nineteen ninety one and one of the first activities to which I was invited was the annual meeting of Cosatu And so when we say comrades in that sense , and thank you as comrades we mean it as comrades in arms . |
| 13 | And , and those are really the two last things that I had on mine , on my list . |
| 14 | everything basically comes down to numbers , er see , when I was talking to you earlier about about canvassing , right , I said basically you work on key words right now you do n't need you , one , one of the things that I talked to you about canvassing is that if you notice the difference between a good canvass and a bad canvass , at least we did n't in fact activity sort of work to do in it , now if you take a , take a activ activity as being , being a key word and you discuss activity with them , right , you can then look at , at activity right as a variation on activity as there is on to action , right , now sit and do my script and talking to a customer , right , and mouthing and mouthing and mouthing and mouthing and saying your bit to a customer , you 've got to sound like a parrot , now I know the way you canvass , the centre of action between you and the cu and the punter , do you see what I mean ? |
| 15 | I have of late had two letters from him , in which he has shown such an easy and familiar way of expressing his thoughts , such a delight for improvement and so much exactness and dilligence in the making of observations that I look upon him to go onward with a curiosity and genious superior to most of his occupation . |
| 16 | The figures that I have before me certainly show that the highest spending authorities comprise almost entirely Labour and the occasional Liberal authority and that those have some of the worst results . |
| 17 | The fixed positions that I saw with you |
| 18 | Maybe by the t I mean so my lecturing style was I I geared if you like towards a more , you go off and do some reading based on the following topics and I agree with you , that was too vague given the the fact you 're not psychologists . |
| 19 | But I have discussed all your arrangements and I approve of them . |
| 20 | Now it seemed fortunate that I had n't ; just as it seemed , though still obscurely , fortunate that I had n't lost my head in other ways when I wrote to her . |
| 21 | They seem to say I spend more time with reptiles than I do with them or some people are very scared so they do n't tend to come around . |
| 22 | Yes , erm I get erm some mags , ah erm gardening magazines and I look at them . |
| 23 | He closed the curtains and I waited for him to come out to his car . |
| 24 | Although there are no hon. Members from Scottish constituencies in their places at the moment , my hon. Friend the Minister made a passing reference to Scotland , which is one of the issues that I discussed with him the other evening . |
| 25 | conked out other day and he thought it were points , he changed points and I says to him have you changed plugs ? |
| 26 | So he came round to use mine and to be honest I did n't have too much interest in punk rock at the time but did this fanzine for 12 issues and I got into it . |
| 27 | Never for the future come near me when I am in these tumults unless I send for you . |
| 28 | I 've taken on all these issues because I believe in them and because someone has to do them . |
| 29 | I 've taken on all these issues because I believe in them and someone has to do them . |
| 30 | One advantage of the appalling route was that it offered no temptation to diverge from it — since I could not see where I was going anyway , the only thing to do was to follow the compass , and I had waded ditches as I came to them instead of attempting to find easier crossing places . |