Example sentences of "the [noun] [conj] i [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was through the OTC that I met my future husband , Eric , who was at that time a permanent staff instructor . |
| 2 | It is always a pleasure to meet you in the field and I appreciate your commitment to creating a better housing business and providing greater satisfaction for our customers . |
| 3 | Afterwards she came into the kitchen while I washed her clothes and hung them on a bush in the garden to dry — and there was nothing in our words or manner to suggest that all this was not quite ordinary and everyday . |
| 4 | ‘ Go on up to the cottage while I get my shoes on . ’ |
| 5 | Ya see , I just flew in from the States and I took your British Airways — my all-time favourite airline — and you know what they did ? |
| 6 | From its shelter the Corporal and I stuck our snouts up . |
| 7 | The old man turned the key and I saw my chance . |
| 8 | Advanced age had by now somewhat mellowed my mother , with the result that I enjoyed my visits to the palace , for when the subject was other than myself she could be stimulating and amusing company . |
| 9 | We were expected to follow the lessons in our Bibles , with the result that I knew my way about the Bible very competently . |
| 10 | One evening as I was nearing Farr 's entrance , I was running , tripped , with the result that I banged my head on the pavement . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , for me , I reckon I can run and swim , and make out on the shooting if I put my mind to it , but the riding — well — I do n't know about the riding . ’ |
| 12 | Hassan , who was usually with him in Abu Dhabi as well as England , manoeuvred into the rear seat of the Mercedes and I took my place beside the young son who had long since graduated into a licensed driver . |
| 13 | Partly , I was n't doing the work because I thought my tutor had decided I was a poof but , more importantly , I was dragging my feet because I was n't keen on the work itself . |
| 14 | He pounded along the passage and I heard his shouts in the Kitchen " Tristan ! |
| 15 | ‘ Never , though he did say his local picture house was the Pavilion and I know his mother took her loaves to be baked at a place called Jimmy McFadden 's bakery , but they 're not in the phone book , either of them . |
| 16 | I think that 's , that 's all we can do at the moment and I take your point Mr , thank you . |
| 17 | I 'm just learning to drive at the moment and I find its more for my independence than any thing else |
| 18 | At the end of two days you say well fine but it 's not for me I ca n't do anything about that when you walk out the room but I hope my objective is to convince you that here is something that like lots of other people in time I can it 's a very very useful system . |
| 19 | I do not say this on the basis that I consider her approach irrational . |
| 20 | I take a look in the file as I make my way down to the main entrance . |
| 21 | can be the same inside leg measurement , but different heights , so I said yes that 's true , it 's all according how long or short you are in the body and I said my son 's short in the waist |
| 22 | Can I can I just raise a question er to r to clarify the point before I answer your question that I are am I are we to assume that in response to Mr , erm it 's on the record that there 's a er a request to add , clear expression of local preference I by local planning authorities ? |
| 23 | I imagined the whole business of running to the wire , and setting up the ladder a thousand times , but I could never get beyond the point when I set my foot on the bottom rung . |
| 24 | You see , I was with her when they met one day in the rose-garden and I watched their faces as they talked together . ’ |
| 25 | I been on a train with the school once — we went to the seaside and I cut my toe . |
| 26 | I was sitting upright in a pine coffin high on a marble pedestal — Yes , it was the one I 'd dreamt the night before I got my results . |
| 27 | Like I see her standing up in the toilet and I thought your hair looks nice in n it ? |
| 28 | If you 'd known at the beginning that I knew your parents you would n't have even given me the time of day . |
| 29 | He ducked into one of the caves and I followed his bent back and the torchlight in the chill and damp . |
| 30 | Can we have Rampage on the Megatape as I know Your Sinclair had it a while back ? |