Example sentences of "[noun] i [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PS I am attaching the relevant sections of the script |
| 2 | For a long time I did not know whether the notes I was accumulating would be published one day , but that did not deter me . |
| 3 | Possibly due to my lack of marquetry expertise I was drawn towards the three veneer section , and E.J. Higgs ‘ Light Music ’ ( left ) won third prize in the class . |
| 4 | I was back to visit it because Ben Tee , via the falls , was one of a series of outings I was proposing for a book of Lochaber walks , and despite all my nosing about I was not prepared to describe things without another visit . |
| 5 | Waterloo I was defeated you won the war . |
| 6 | No one of the reasons I was ringing er I have actually er tried the old Beauj' this year . |
| 7 | When I was asked to speak at my farewell party I said that I felt a Ghanaian could have done my job and that was one of the reasons I was leaving . |
| 8 | Yes erm during the h the Probably one of the reasons I was set on to start with , was the tremendous amount of house building . |
| 9 | Cos I was asking , for a number of reasons I was asking for floor plans for our , you see . |
| 10 | The reasons I 'm gon na give you were supplied by a guy called Tony . |
| 11 | I remember when a bee was in my hair I 'm running ah ! |
| 12 | So of his falling in love with Mrs Moore we are merely informed that ‘ even if I were free to tell the story , I doubt if it has much to do with the subject of this book , ’ and of his father 's death in the late summer of 1929 that this ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |
| 13 | No wonder , then , that when he came to write up the experience in Surprised by Joy he should have been so insistent that his father 's last illness and death ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |
| 14 | In The French Lieutenant 's Woman ( 1969 ) , John Fowles ( or a version of him ) intrudes famously — or notoriously — into chapter thirteen to discuss his tactics and emphasize that ‘ this story I am telling is all imagination . |
| 15 | I did actually get over to work for them in 1968–70 and 1971 , but this story I am referring to was in 1967 when I was just paying a visit and was given a bed for the night in the hostel . |
| 16 | The story I 'm working on started with the idea of what it would be like to break your glasses on holiday . |
| 17 | ‘ I mean facts that relate to the story I 'm working on at the time . |
| 18 | That 's the story I was thinking you were doing it today erm it 's called the green knight , but he has a name does n't he ? |
| 19 | Indeed the BBC does send urgent tapes in taxis and you are supposed to avoid tube trains but the story I was told gave a different explanation . |
| 20 | With with your permission I 'm gon na ask Mr if he can recall the argument . |
| 21 | After the Danish referendum I am tempted to ask : What new Europe ? |
| 22 | One Croat student said : ‘ On the day of the referendum I was woken up very early in the morning . |
| 23 | ‘ The board I 'm going to make for you will be a masterpiece ’ , Michael said . |
| 24 | But this , I think , will , in the class of case I am considering , be very rare . |
| 25 | ‘ Dottore , I strongly resent the assumption that anybody is in a position to dictate to me what is or is not relevant to a case I am investigating . |
| 26 | ‘ They are my bodyguards , Sir John , my assistants in case I am attacked . ’ |
| 27 | NORMALLY I insist on using the names of people who contact me for help , but in this case I am making an exception . |
| 28 | As a young person , I am often quite afraid to go out on the streets in case I am approached by one of these grey-haired vandals and informed how much worse the world is these days or interrogated as to why young people do n't have any respect anymore . |
| 29 | For instance , erm erm a good illustration of this is Locke 's erm erm argument on the right of inheritance and erm in this case I am quoting from the first treatise of government the right a son has to be maintained , has to be maintained and provided with the necessary the necessities and conveniences of life out of his father 's stock gives him a right to succeed to his father 's property for his own good but this can give him no right to succeed also to the rule which his father had over other men . |
| 30 | I give you my word there will be one , if it 's the last case I am allowed to handle . ’ |