Example sentences of "i [verb] [be] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A good dealer gives a service — everything I sell is in perfect condition and I buy back my stuff if need be . ’ |
| 2 | Tagalog concepts are directly relevant to the present discussion because the Buid with whom I lived are in daily contact with Tagalog speaking immigrants from neighbouring islands . |
| 3 | And as for Leeds , the only boys I met were at teenage dances . |
| 4 | They occur more commonly , and surgery is more frequently practised upon them ; but what I say is of equal relevance to female-to-male transsexuals . |
| 5 | ‘ If I 'd been in cold sobriety I would never have married her . |
| 6 | Most of the photographs I receive are of unsaleable objects , with a smattering from the lunatic fringe such as the lady from Virginia who wanted to sell the handcuffs used to detain Charles Manson when he was first arrested . |
| 7 | I hated being on social security and I tried everywhere for a job . |
| 8 | I remember being at primary school and the boys went to play football and you sat in the corner playing talking or the boys played football and the girls , would you believe it , got sex education ! |
| 9 | I now wish to consider something that I believe is of acute importance to every Member of the House and to millions of people beyond it — the negotiations in which we are currently engaged on the intergovernmental conferences . |
| 10 | Well Boris Yeltsin this morning has said that he wants a veto over the use of nuclear weapons and about ninety percent of which I think are on Russian soil , that perhaps can be interpreted , additional safeguard to have another veto . |
| 11 | It is his recognition that projected activities draw upon a distinctly different kind of energy ( and I include emotional response ) from non-projected activity that I think is of fundamental importance . |
| 12 | Eddie I think is worth sheer sort of opening teams up . |
| 13 | Well we 've had a go well I think it was for erm some sort of I think was for multiple sclerosis |
| 14 | one I did was with Caledonian Paper at Irvine and the Finns or the Swedes whoever own |
| 15 | My family and I have been subjected to unprovoked stone-throwing and spitting by gangs of youths who I presume are from right wing groups . |
| 16 | A lot of the places where Ann and I fish are in remote locations . |
| 17 | I had been at great pains to appear distant towards him and been more successful than I had thought I could be . |
| 18 | According to these ladies , I had been at certain times a pirate , a builder , a healer , a spiritual teacher , a red Indian and a nun . |
| 19 | I had been on low-calorie diets and diets out of newspapers , but I just could not stick to them . |
| 20 | She was built like a javelin thrower , but she blushed and I knew I had been in good hands . |
| 21 | Having been confined to a wheelchair for 18 years I had been in similar situations to this . |
| 22 | ‘ He had every reason not to take me seriously as a soldier as he knew how idle I had been in prior days in Layforce . ’ |
| 23 | I had been in constant pain , since my accident , for nearly two years when I stumbled across the Alexander Technique . |
| 24 | I 've been on automatic pilot for 25 years . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been on thyroid tablets since 1939 , but they do n't affect me ’ |
| 26 | really s I 've been to dental hygiene cos I thought |
| 27 | Yes and er if I might s oh I er do n't know I 've been to bloody shop meself but I ai n't sorry about it , cos I 've done what I 've wanted to do and I 've enjoyed what I 've done and erm the authorities they get 'd me that on er hardship grounds there , as I say , being on er residential premise and er they showed me great respect and er |
| 28 | I 've not been against lines of communication , I 've been against excessive expenditure on such . |
| 29 | I 've been in regular contact with Earl 's Court Project and a lot of my friends down there . |
| 30 | I 've been in traditional sales . |