Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [conj] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is simply a case as I said in my summary that er er C One is a policy that is applicable , because it 's a conservation area . |
| 2 | I skate down the road a bit before I shout at cops — or anyone that was giving me some shit . |
| 3 | My tour lasted a match and a bit and I sympathise with Ian 's frustration and disappointment , ’ added Wallace , who is also an interamateur pilot . |
| 4 | Well I think I 'll start off by telling you a little bit about myself erm , I 'm a writer and I live in Durham , my work is here and I 've also work abroad , if anybody ca n't hear me please say |
| 5 | This is a constraint that I imposed on the DEVELOPMENT procedure . |
| 6 | I used to have a bike before I went to school . |
| 7 | They must have been watching from a hill-top as I rode towards them because suddenly I was surrounded by a company of about 40 soldiers , all aged between 17 and 18 years . |
| 8 | Many of the records — ‘ pinched ’ from or discarded by his musical family — were scratched and worn , but it was Music with a capital ‘ M ’ and the first time I heard the Chopin first piano concerto , we nearly had a fight because I insisted on playing it right through four times . |
| 9 | I need a photographer and I work with Señor Mitchell . |
| 10 | I mainly used to chase it in me mate 's house , but sometimes when I got home , I 'd have a toot before I went to bed . |
| 11 | I like to understand the meanings of words and always refer to a dictionary when I come on a new word . |
| 12 | ‘ So it 's all a bonus when I think of where my head was two years ago . |
| 13 | There-has n't been a break since I came on board . |
| 14 | If you can see a result If I talk to John Smith and tell him that I know he keeps riding on the pavement at you know , with no lights , it sounds minor , but the old age pensioner who keeps nearly getting missed , it 's very you know upsetting . |
| 15 | This was a sparrow that I found on the day it was born . |
| 16 | you 're always having a fag when I pull into a petrol station |
| 17 | ‘ I never wear a swimsuit when I go to St Tropez , ’ she said a little petulantly . |
| 18 | So I had to be a bear till I got to the top of the mountain and then you have to look round to see , I wonder whether , who were those girls who were messing around over there ca n't stand that , mm , do something with them |
| 19 | ‘ And ‘ t was not for the hand of a child that I wrote to your father a year later . ’ |
| 20 | The Prime Minister answered a question that I put to him earlier this year by referring to the fact that he did not believe that I live in the real world . |
| 21 | When my mother separated from my father in April 1981 I wanted to afford my father the security of a home so I entered into a verbal agreement to allow him to stay in the house during his lifetime and described this as a life tenancy on form ‘ Stamps L(A)451 ’ . |
| 22 | And I walk down a corridor and I go in a door , and they 're there . ’ |
| 23 | Finances were riding along the crest of a slump and I lived in a one-room penthouse in Bakers Arms , Leyton ( on top of the opticians ) . |
| 24 | She said : ‘ I brushed past a girl as I went to the toilet and she yelled I 'd done it deliberately . |
| 25 | I 'm a fool if I believe for one minute that he 'll give me a fair chance … |
| 26 | But I 'm not a fool and I object to being thought one . |
| 27 | ‘ Not as much of a fool as I tried to be . |
| 28 | I was not a Theosophist when I arrived in Sydney . |
| 29 | Well no I could take a return if I wanted to . |
| 30 | I wish that the Minister would respond to a point that I made in a debate last week when I spoke of the tragedy that the employment advisory service — available to prisoners both before and after their release — had been withdrawn by the Government . |