Example sentences of "[coord] i [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I speak with Michael Odell inside ten minutes , or I raise him on the open line , ’ said Quinn carefully . |
2 | He said our flight had been delayed and he 'd spent the time in the bar , and then added , rather unconvincingly , that some woman had insisted on ‘ plying Phaeton with liquor ’ as he put it , but there was a hollowness in the way he said it , and I do n't think either Gill or I believed him for a moment . |
3 | After breakfast at the palace all the inmates are thrown out , whatever the weather , and the only place he can take his child is outside : " Usually I take my little boy at weekends to the fair at Whitley Bay , or I take him on the metro and we sit at the front — he loves trains . |
4 | Whenever that happens , rather than going back to the track I play something else that will fit , or I leave it as an improvisational section , so to speak . |
5 | ‘ And me buying it from a stall in the flea market only last week . ’ |
6 | This way , Dad and I get you for a little longer . |
7 | Elton does n't deserve to be called the worst , he 's very stylish and I dress him for the country . |
8 | Both my husband and I accepted it as a part of our way of life . |
9 | Henri and I sheltered them for a while , but of course it was very risky with the Germans billeted everywhere except the smallest cottages . |
10 | I tell the DI why ; I tell him about two more betrayals ; about the commanding officer who had let men die to cover up his own inadequacy ( or at least Andy believed he had , which was all that mattered ) , and I tell him about the locum doctor who could n't be bothered to attend a patient and then , when he eventually did pay a visit , just assumed her pain was something trivial . |
11 | Erm first of all if I may just er point out that the example I put with my paper that I have submitted today , and I thank you for the er indulgence in allowing me to produce it so late , was simply that there was one particular appeal of decision where an inspector remarked particularly on the lack of a local or a development plan policy relating to generally relating to the countryside . |
12 | I 'm not offended , and I thank you for the jade . |
13 | and I like it for the the sports , like the |
14 | ‘ He came round the desks and I kicked him in the back of his legs to get him to the floor and I used my shirt to put out the flames and Hazel gave him first aid . ’ |
15 | and I got one on the C's . |
16 | ‘ I did n't know at the time it had been in the Quakers boardroom but it was a good , handmade , solid oak table and I got it for a reasonable price , ’ he said . |
17 | ‘ I just called to say I 'm happy and I mean it from the bottom of my heart , ’ said Stevie . |
18 | In the next lesson , I asked him to share his six ways with 1 in front , and I wrote them on the blackboard . |
19 | Jamila asked me to touch her and I rubbed her between the legs with Vaseline according to her instructions , like ‘ Harder ’ and ‘ More effort , please ’ and ‘ Yes , but you 're making love not cleaning your teeth . ’ |
20 | Everyone sits quietly in the room and the leader draws an imaginary circle with a finger and says ‘ Here I have the wonderful magic circle and I sign it with a dot . |
21 | ‘ The gate 's open , ’ she said , ‘ and I wedged it with a brick . ’ |
22 | ‘ And I shared mine with an ATS girl , ’ Jane sighed . |
23 | And I fought it for a long time and I wanted to get kick-started back to where I was before , because I felt under a cloud . |
24 | The bucket had a rope attached to its handle and I skimmed it over the stern to haul up a gallon or so of sea-water which I slammed down in front of Rickie . |
25 | But I 've got a photograph of him , and I know he after the war was over he went back and married a nurse . |
26 | The shepherd says , " I always take the best milk I possess , and I bring it as an offering to God . " |
27 | Our amendments would er restore democratic accountability for police authorities , they would remove the proposed concentration of power in the hands of the Home Secretary and I commend them to the Committee . |
28 | Mr Hurd : I listened to my hon. Friend 's particularly interesting speech on that theme on Monday , and I commend it to the House . |
29 | The Bill is the right Bill for the job and I commend it to the House . |
30 | The Bill matches the needs of the times , and I commend it to the House . |