Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
| 2 | I think one of the biggest problems we 've got or I 've I 've had in the last couple of years is that we 've got so many primary schools that we get children from Spring Gardens and Western are now producing national curriculum information for which Marian has got . |
| 3 | Erm I 'm going to or I 've I 've started every time a recording comes in making a note of where it 's from and what type of recording it is , |
| 4 | ‘ Get off me , or I swear I will ! ’ |
| 5 | I want the pair of you dressed and off this train in five minutes — or I swear I 'll drag you off in your pyjamas ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ We must be true with one another or I fear I shall go quite … ’ |
| 7 | Or I thought I heard these words , for Captain was growling so fiercely , I was n't sure . |
| 8 | See my dad likes videos and things like that but he wa he , I know he likes aftershave , he likes that Old Spice and that so I thought well I 'll get him something like that or I thought I sort of saw cos I 'm going shopping Saturday , I 'm trying to get it all Saturday if I can . |
| 9 | Or I mean I think he 's , she 's bitten him before , if he had any sense he 'd leave them at the gate or something , I mean somebody would go for them . |
| 10 | When it was rephrased , ‘ Do you ever find yourself saying , I wish 1 could do this better or I wish I knew more about that ? ’ it was more easily understood . |
| 11 | ‘ Norman Lamont is a good friend of the NHS and I am sure — or I think I am sure — that he will prove it , ’ Mr Clarke said . |
| 12 | The third floor was a no-smoking floor or I think I might have started smoking again after six years ' abstinence . |
| 13 | Yes , why I am asking you or I did I say |
| 14 | or I found I preferred men instead . ’ |
| 15 | On the one hand , says Freud , there 's a strong desire to go on sleeping , but on the other hand there 's this stimulus , I 'm terribly thirsty or you know I , I , I , I really do need to go to the bathroom pretty badly , and there 's an inner conflict in your mind . |
| 16 | I mean I du n no whether it 's because they do n't want to lose votes or you know I mean they they were there sort of pontificating about we should all come little children and let's talk . |
| 17 | . She said when she comes to kiss me good goodnight I let her kiss here but she said I ca n't have her cuddling me or she said I think of him all the time . |
| 18 | Well , I decided really , or we decided I suppose to er link it to the festival . |
| 19 | said I 've got to get this one back for her mum or whatever said I 'm in a hurry then I met some guy on the field , talking to him and er |
| 20 | or what did I ascribe to him ? |
| 21 | Then whom or what have I been seeing , Mrs Ridley ? |
| 22 | Did n't get you back or anything did I ? |
| 23 | He thought he was having a secret affair , and everyone thought I did n't know and was terribly sympathetic . |
| 24 | It was a delicious reunion and everyone thought I looked amazingly well on my borrowed blood . |
| 25 | And me thinking I was hiding them ! |
| 26 | And I go sorry , and he goes makes a jolly good Christmas gift and I go I ca n't do it |
| 27 | And I 'll pass subtle hints about it and I go I 'm just passing a subtle hint right . |
| 28 | Mother and lots of other people would say we were too young to love truly , they would have us wait for our ‘ years of discretion ’ ; at what age one is supposed to be abnormally discreet I do not know , all I know is that I have not arrived there yet , and I hope I never will . |
| 29 | I think you have something definite to say — and I hope I have made it easier for you to say it . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I 've had a little help from Barry Humphries in this , and I hope I 've paid him due credit , thought he did start that nasty rumour that he was me or I was him . |