Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] i [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh eleven shillings I think it was eleven shillings a week . |
| 2 | After a few attempts I found I was turning like Robby Naish for the first part of the turn , then falling in on the inside of the turn . |
| 3 | Well they 're not new blimming , new pict though they 've decorated have n't they , they 've done one coat now , I look like Nora Batty with wrinkles in this tights I told her to phone me from Woking station but she 's probably er |
| 4 | At a meeting of the Cairngorm Club he told a hushed audience ‘ For every few steps I took I heard a crunch as if someone was walking after me but taking steps three or four times the length of my own . |
| 5 | I then started lungeing him and within a few months I rode him out at walk : a very difficult task . |
| 6 | Yes , oh Rocket , for the first few months I had him , after he was rescued , and he was so protective of me , because I 'd given him a good home and never , never hit him in the face . |
| 7 | I was sleeping with my boyfriend , and after a few months I found I was pregnant and I had to stop going there . |
| 8 | ‘ Right , there are some books I want you to look at — general background to give you the feel of the thing . |
| 9 | ‘ Now you 've lost your job through your ex-boss 's devious manipulations I suppose you decided to try to move in permanently on me ! |
| 10 | I wondered whether he preferred the sexual experiences I imagined he must be having with all sorts of men to the one we shared . |
| 11 | and she ooh I do n't know I 'm gon na have to something to her cos some weeks I get it and some weeks I do n't , I said you ought to think yourself lucky you get an extra ten pound , I said , we do n't ! |
| 12 | And , on meeting up with the Apache after 30 years I like it now . |
| 13 | Former Top 40 presenter Tony Blackburn said : ‘ In the old days I think it meant something to be the Christmas No. 1 and there would be great excitement in the run-up to the last chart . |
| 14 | Some days I think I 'm only young — I fell straight away for her [ the baby ] — I used to think before I was married I 'd better get all the clothes I want now because I 'll never get them when I 'm married — but I was wrong , because I can really have all I want now … |
| 15 | some days I feel it now Dennis . |
| 16 | But after a few years I discovered I was not earning enough money from my patients . |
| 17 | The teachers were very helpful and caring , and for the first few days I thought I was getting on quite well with my new classmates . |
| 18 | And yet … we 'd had such a good few days I suppose I wanted to keep the mood going . |
| 19 | Different weeks I mean we concentrate on wallets because of the pitch . |
| 20 | And I went down , I went somewhere else there was a few places I saw them so erm I said to , I said to Robert now you know those shirts , that shirt I bought you for Christmas ? |
| 21 | I mean , some films I think they 're pathetic in so much that the story |
| 22 | On some machines I find I get a better result if I manipulate the edge needles in exactly the same way as Far Isle . |
| 23 | In some ways I wish I had something to fall back on but I wanted to play guitar in a band , not waste time at university . ’ |
| 24 | In some ways I thought it had been too easy for me . |
| 25 | All that stuff on our first two records I think is really cool and in some ways I prefer it to what we 're doing now , and I knew that once we took any of those songs and put them in an electric context people would go , ‘ Duh , it 's a good song ! ’ . |
| 26 | But there will obviously be sort of an ongoing training and so on because I , I know that in some ways I think it 's been very mixed and I qu I put |
| 27 | ‘ In some ways I feel you are so lucky , Lavinia , to have kept Araminta by you all these years . ’ |
| 28 | In fact in some ways I feel I almost got more out of appraising Kevin and Bill than I did out of Alan appraising |
| 29 | I says if I 'd 've wanted a slice of fat and I 'd 've want burnt tomatoes I says I would 've ordered them . |
| 30 | ‘ There were some papers I thought you ought to see . |