Example sentences of "the [noun] and i [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your asking me as chairman of the board and I think I can speak to the board I think that the theatre has actually managed very well . |
| 2 | I shall just have to play on and ride out the recession and I feel I still have three good years left in me at the top . |
| 3 | So we 're watching that programme , Is this Your Last Cigarette ? or whatever it were called last Sunday on the telly and I thought I 'm stupid cos in six month 's time I shall say I could have packed up six months ago . |
| 4 | This is something we said we were going to discuss at a time in the future and I thought I 'd stick it on and see how much time we 'd got left . |
| 5 | Lord Hulton was waiting at the entrance and I thought I had better warn him . |
| 6 | I know who I am in the car and I think I am as determined as anyone to fulfil my own potential . |
| 7 | And I said no , I was going to , she said I think you have , she said , because you 've moved the ballerina and I did I listened to it . |
| 8 | well they 're alright , but I mean you can tell they take the grease out of the kitchen , but , they 're a bit of a bind are n't they ? of all the cleaning and I mean I do n't see why the people who make them do n't sell the blimming proper filter to filter themselves instead we do n't have |
| 9 | I said I 'll go round the back and I said I can get in through that window for ya , I said well I 'll have to force it , what d' ya mean force it ? |
| 10 | I was floating overhead — I was n't visible to the daleks and I thought I should come down and see what the Awful Warning was . |
| 11 | The thing is , it 's a vicious circle , it 's Catch 22 really , 'cos I used to have a good self-employed business , going painting and decorating and I used to have a good clientele and that and I found over the years that , when it became harder and harder to score and the prices rocketed and all that , it got out of hand , out of proportion , that I was spending more and more time off the job than I was on the job , looking round to get the stuff and I found I was unable to carry on working without the drug , because I just felt so bad and I could n't climb ladders and I thought I was a danger to myself and anybody else that I had working with me , y'know . |
| 12 | Of course Matt was regarded as the prize and I suppose I was flattered when he became serious with me — or seemed to . ’ |
| 13 | But the bills were dropping on to the doormat and I felt I had no choice . |
| 14 | We were in a car looking down over the Bay and I said I 've got to go out . |
| 15 | ‘ Everything went well in the warm-up and I thought I just had to lob it out to qualify . |
| 16 | You know , I get out the door and I think I 've left the key in the lock . |
| 17 | the objectives of the organization and I mean I l i think a lot of the things we 've got up actual do relate back to everything that we do . |
| 18 | I saw him like on the right , on the path and I goes I goes what you do I goes gon na be sick . |
| 19 | Erm , I suppose I have one advantage , which is I know one or two people in the audience and I think I know a little bit about the nature of the audience , er , and you gathered why from er , the Chair 's introduction . |
| 20 | She said : ‘ He asked about the bureau and I said I had nowhere to put the things from it so he went into the wardrobe and cleared a shelf and said put it in there . |
| 21 | that particular organisation I presume is , is the one that is known as the most profitable investment bank partnership in the world or in history and presumably the reason why you 've been advised is because the advisor or the director to Robert Maxwell who was instrumental in dealing with Robert Maxwell business wherever he was in the world and I mean I 've seen er faxes and cables to France where er that particular director , I believe Mr Shineberg was , I 've seen faxes about Jersey business to Mr Shineberg er presumably er you 're being advised to take that action because in effect it was operating as one operation with transactions routed through New York , routed through London as seemed to suit the circumstances , but not necessarily with any rational basis other than er to avoid perhaps regulation . |
| 22 | I mean I think there 's the same problem with children in a sense , I mean , you you talking about confronting them with the realities of the world and I suppose I perhaps if we if we did expose ourselves to the erm to the true meaning of what 's going on in the world , we could n't handle it psychologically without stopping it , without doing something about it . |
| 23 | Right Dennis n , tins of food , things like ham , fish , beans , anything tinned , packets of dried food , dried milk oh er dried herbs , jars jars of jam , marmalade anything that 'll keep , herbs and spices , games for the children and I think I said Monday , they need n't be new but ones that ne ones that do not need batteries . |
| 24 | I got him every time , until the end and I said I am not serving him this time ! |
| 25 | The thing is I knew there was Meg Ryan in the film and I thought I 've seen that actor cos I 'm , I 'm always on about knowing faces and names and stuff |
| 26 | Well this th this is the the faces and I thought I 'd do the maps and the rest were questions I do n't know whether y should do some questions . |
| 27 | So this is the same idea and if there 's a star Something that I did see a wee while ago , I saw a f a light very close down to the horizon and I said I 've never seen a star so bright way down there . |
| 28 | I had n't seen her since you went to America , and then about six months ago I was staying the week-end with the Coleworthys and I thought I had better drop in to see the old girl in case she heard I was in the neighbourhood and took offence " |
| 29 | To Major Patti he stated ( in excellent English ) , ‘ I put in fifteen years of service to the Party and I believe I paid my debt . |
| 30 | And you just could n't absolutely see anything serving customer I was going to so , to move or change out my draw shutting it up , turning it off , going away and somebody else had come , he kept , kept , kept doing that and he was stood there all the time and I thought I thought you definitely wo n't get the job ! |