Example sentences of "of [noun] and i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am here partly because I was fortunate enough to have the happiest and healthiest of childhoods and I see it as a very happy obligation to try to do my best to ensure that all over the world it is possible for other children to enjoy something of what I had . |
| 2 | ‘ Captain Montgomery has been reporting the state of progress and I thought you might like to hear it . |
| 3 | And the man had a mouthful of champagne and I thought he was going to have a heart attack . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It brought me a lot of luck and I hope it brings her just as much . ’ |
| 5 | Ken Clarke was my minister of roads and I remember him coming back on more than one occasion with steam coming out of his ears . |
| 6 | so I had a lot of contacts and I enjoyed it . |
| 7 | I said , of course and I said it would be nice company and so she said er you sit near the window , I 've seen it lots of times before , as I only live in Manchester . |
| 8 | This was one of the er this th this is one of the black books and one of the problems with this has been I think that a lot of psychoanalysts er have been Jewish of course and I think they regard as kind of heresy or some kind of disloyalty to suggest that Moses erm was n't Jewish . |
| 9 | We 're not only catering for Harlow people we are catering for people outside which is bringing money into Harlow helping the finance of Harlow and I think we are just progressing with the times . |
| 10 | ‘ It was very hard work for that sort of money and I consider it an insult , ’ Austin said of the earlier award . |
| 11 | I also think it 's a question of being able to provide , certainly at the top of a company , a sense of direction and I find it hard to see how you can have an absolutely clear sense of direction unless you yourself are able to assess the essentials as you see them for success in your particular trade . |
| 12 | The Minister held a number of meetings and I know what went on , but the opportunity was lost . |
| 13 | And then that other was a member of parliament and I knew it 's erm I knew he , I think it was erm oh I can see him stood up there . |
| 14 | I think once you 've refined the area of search and I think I agree with Mr on this , there are two or three key criteria . |
| 15 | Rancid Hell Spawn , you are the real Kings Of Rock and I salute you . |
| 16 | She smelled of booze and I adored her . |
| 17 | Once you get out of car and I thought it was a dog that she had , bu did n't have , she did n't have a dachshund he had a little |
| 18 | He believed in England — well Episcopalian is your Church of England and I think his grandfather was an immigrant back around the end of the century . |
| 19 | It was a way of escape and I buried my nose in their fragrance . |
| 20 | One man who took early retirement at 61 thought , at the time , that the advantage of early retirement was ‘ The fact that there are so many young people out of work and I thought I 'd done a lifetime 's work and might as well leave it for the young ones . ’ |
| 21 | You are going to decide now , by looking at your graph how you could improve this piece of work and I want you to write the target you decide on , it could be more than one , in the space that says I would improve this work by , you 're to write that now please , off you go and while you 're doing that let's get the register done , shh , shh shh , shh Sarah |
| 22 | As I knit the swatch , a ladder is created where the needles are out of work and I find it very easy to measure between the two ladders with my green ruler when the swatch is completed . |
| 23 | So it was a full range of offences and I mean there is n't a typical way of working with a typical kind of offence . |
| 24 | Erm , but I think we 've got , we 've got erm Cowan Bridge in the early part of Lowood and I think we 've got really Roe Head School at the end Lowood , as it were . |
| 25 | An orange circle of light , the beam from his torch , darted round the tent walls , there was the jingle of keys and I felt them cold in my hand . |
| 26 | bottle of wine and I drunk it you see , watching the match , and Jim done the dinner I said fuck it I 'm having my dinner in here cos , did n't it go into extra time ? |
| 27 | so they did n't come , and I did n't go out and Gemma came up and I was sitting there talking and they had a drop , drop of wine and I had one with erm and Gemma finished her biscuits up , we 've got to get some more biscuits now Gemma brings her |
| 28 | The gentlemen of the orchestra chorused their usual soft whistles of approval and I did my usual twirl , deep curtsey and , ‘ Good evening , gentlemen . ’ |
| 29 | When she had been there a couple of years and I asked her how she was , she said , ‘ Pretty mouldy . ’ |
| 30 | It is the concrete being that reasons ; pass a number of years and I find my mind in a new place : how ? the whole man moves ; paper logic is but the record of it . ’ |