Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [conj] i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | But it was in Colchester Park that I had my first lesson in conservation in microcosm , if you like . |
2 | They used to be Bangor fans but I think I have won them over to Glentoran . ’ |
3 | IT was on a very wet Saturday afternoon that I found myself on the top of the North Downs observing whiffs of smoke emerging from a boiler which to all intents and purposes was standing among a mountain of waste metal in a field almost miles from anywhere . |
4 | He was a bit suspicious I must admit when I bought him those Janet Reger nighties but I knew he 'd never get the chance to wear them . |
5 | On the Thursday morning early I set off to go to Peter Jones before my meeting in Markham Square and I put your birthday money ( for which my thanks ) towards a tiny little black leather bag about the size of the one I came south with , as it fits under my jacket without looking too bulky and my old similar one , also from the John Lewis partnership some years ago , recently gave up the ghost after three years of relentless daily use . |
6 | ‘ No , I saw the bruise when he came back to the shop on Tuesday evening and I asked him what he 'd done to himself . |
7 | but by doing it that way , I mean I Phyl was er bowling Tuesday night and I said I was probably having a meal out anyway |
8 | He said that 's when they put presents round and er he come in on the Friday on the Friday night and I mean I was in a right state , I mean we 've been in there about seven weeks and I was like at the point of like a nervous breakdown and he said to me how do you feel about me taking Matthew from you , so I said I he said I think you need a break . |
9 | Yeah I 've got it tomorrow well , the latest Friday morning but I mean it 's not as , I 've got ta get it now . |
10 | Teotihuacan was some twenty kilometres north-east of the centre of Mexico City and I thought I had probably glimpsed those pyramids through the dust haze as we flew in . |
11 | I had found out that her name was Miss Vulcan and I gave her this information as well as telling her that Miss Vulcan had a brother named Freddie who visited her and that he was a little old man who wore a black cap on his head and sported a goatee beard . |
12 | You have to understand that no one but my family had ever lived at Low Birk Hatt before I sold it . |
13 | It was written merely as a simple introduction to the Alexander Technique and I hope it has whetted your appetite to find out more . |
14 | I had never suspected she had ever loved any man but Simon Ellis and I knew she could not have been referring to him since she had never spoken of him without affection and great kindness . |
15 | I do n't know which was more humiliating , that git 's performance , or the ape-like dance and inane grinning of Reg Pybus when I pulled him off . |
16 | Can I just finish this this this session with one question back to North Yorkshire because I think you said , Within your sorry within your Sorry I 'll come back to you , Within your projections you actually take account of concealed households . |
17 | Okay well er I I figure that there must be quite a number of er extraterrestrials around around North Yorkshire and I thought it would be quite nice actually if er if there are any extraterrestrials listening at the moment they could ring in and we could have a chat . |
18 | We think the forty one thousand dwellings give sufficient flexibility erm i it will ensure a substantial continuing house-building sector in North Yorkshire and I think it marries environmental requirements with er the with our wider responsibilities . |
19 | The site is run by a chap called Sidney Passmore and I gather there 's been a lot of ill-feeling . ’ |
20 | ‘ She was desperately in need of a holiday , and Aunt Maureen and I persuaded her to go . |
21 | So my in-laws were South of England people and I opened my house to them . |
22 | ‘ I 'm very glad that all the Harlequins players were a part of the England set-up before I had anything to do with it ’ , said Best . |
23 | You 're saying that Tom and old Maggie Sullivan and I cut his throat for him ? ’ |
24 | ‘ I contacted a Chinese professor at Birmingham University who recommended Dr Hao Ri-Fang and I invited her to open a clinic here . ’ |
25 | I came from a B-Cat prison where I had my own basin and toilet . |
26 | He did n't even bother to deny this Harvey business when I accused him . |
27 | Quarterly meetings which they call them that was held in er the Odd Fellows Hall in Forest Road and I think it was the March January February March quarterly meeting that they er the ballot was taken for delegates for the conference . |
28 | ‘ Mr Nicholls and I have something to say to you . ’ |
29 | ‘ I look forward to that — and so , I know , will Mr. Stevenson when I tell him . ’ |
30 | And all I thought was , I never liked Coca Cola and I suppose I 'll never get to like it now . |