Example sentences of "[noun pl] i [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Switching between the different combinations of effects and processors produced the same results , and apart from inventing some really stupid effect chains I found plenty of interesting combinations ; these could be mixed with the dry signal without losing any of the basic guitar sound . |
| 2 | As I get her into a fresh pair of rubber knickers I feel something cold on my face . |
| 3 | Of the letters I wrote to Eliot and kept copies I reproduce one , which might perhaps have some more permanent interest than the ephemera . |
| 4 | Fingers come round , things go in and out of my mouth but even when I venture to open my eyes I see nothing . |
| 5 | In some of these shops I observed one , or more females , stript of their upper garment , and not overcharged with their lower , wielding the hammer with all the grace of the sex … |
| 6 | Children die before parents unfortunately and have wills I let everything to my mother , Mother I leave everything to my son . |
| 7 | From my past experiences and many finds I have plenty of knowledge in the field and this enables me to help people choose the right detector to suit them . |
| 8 | And , as the rain got worse during the rounds I thought someone was going to have to go off and build an ark . |
| 9 | For the following twenty-seven days I approached everyone I knew , from the Bow Building Society to distant aunts , even fellow-students , but none of them showed the slightest interest in backing a young woman undergraduate to the tune of sixty pounds in order that she could buy a fruit and vegetable shop . |
| 10 | These days I pay someone from Brides Haven to come over here at regular intervals to keep an eye on the place . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I just hope one of these days I do something else that proves to be as phenomenally successful . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ In these dim November days I resemble nothing more than that poor Creature of RHA 's Fantasy , immured in her terrible In-Pace , quieted perforce and longing for her Quietus . |
| 13 | Some weeks I earn nothing . ’ |
| 14 | For three weeks I had nothing to do and I sat down and decided — I have recorded all these pieces before — to see if there was not something more behind the music . |
| 15 | He wanted me to handle all the money side and do the bills but some weeks I had nothing for food , nothing for bills , nothing for the children . |
| 16 | Yeah I worked for fives years I 've plenty of practice |
| 17 | ‘ For nearly two years I did nothing , but as I had worked very hard very young , I had no feeling of guilt that I had to do something , because I had already proved that when I wanted to work , I could do it . ’ |
| 18 | I understood that you might like me better if I had experience , if I did n't have opinions about things I knew nothing about . … ’ |
| 19 | On top of all my other problems I had something of an upheaval on the domestic front when my daughter and her two children had to move in with us for a while . |
| 20 | Er , in a number of ways I think everybody will agree that it 's been improved by er the er demolition of the terrace blocks , rather than refurbishment and the opportunity has been taken to create erm perhaps a a more comfortable relationship between bungalows that are about to be refurbished and the new houses , because the new houses are designed in such a way as to keep the scale down so whereas the terraced blocks were anything up to four storey , the new houses will only be two storey and in a number of cases they will they will be a relatively low two storey so that erm I will just point out on the front elevations that the roof comes down fairly low relative to the first floor windows so that it 's not too much above the , the roofs on the bungalows , we 're not talking about compromising people 's heads on the internal though ! |
| 21 | Lower than a thousand units er there 's no immediate affect and one 's tempted to think that erm the er er it 's , that radiation 's therefore safe below that level and that 's not strictly true because there is the possibility of a long term affect it can actually cause cancer in the long term but with very low er ra- er levels of risk cos you can see down at the levels where people actually get radiation doses er like erm members of the public or erm from the actual background of people who work in nuclear power stations , you 're talking about very low levels but the levels , those sort of levels I mean one in three hundred thousand , one in three million , that sort of thing you ca n't actually measure in real er populations because there er any effects that there are can be swamped by other ways of getting er of getting cancer . |
| 22 | Well as I say , my daughter was a grammar school tea , er pupil but erm my so , grandsons I have one now at he 'll be twenty two this year , went to Burnt Mill I have another grandson in Burnt Mill |
| 23 | We had our own bedrooms and that was saying quite a bit , because er the , the nurses home had been built er for the er as a sort of war memorial for after the First World War which was one of the most sensible war memorials I think anyone could have er provided . |
| 24 | ‘ In my worst moments I thought everyone knew , except me . ’ |
| 25 | Of course there could be plenty of others I know nothing about . ’ |
| 26 | Me thoughts I heard one calling ‘ Child ! ’ |
| 27 | er for special services I invite everybody , and I 've got about fifty on my books which I think I can afford to go around when I get there , can you do a couple , they live near you |