Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [pron] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I like about them and where I think their strengths are is that they do put science , the physical sciences , in that bracket of activity which is fun , excitement and leisure and enjoyment and that it moves away from the notion that it 's something you do on a wet Friday afternoon at school . |
| 2 | What I like about them and where I think their strengths are is that they do put science , the physical sciences , in that bracket of activity which is fun , excitement and leisure and enjoyment and that it moves away from the notion that it 's something you do on a wet Friday afternoon at school . |
| 3 | Yeah or I mean which accents do you think people sound more intelligent when they 've got I mean , it 's not that 's heavily match- guised cos in match guised people are doing it without knowing what they 're doing . |
| 4 | You talk about spoilt rich middle-class kids over here , but the truth is if Steve or I saw their houses , we 'd probably think they were lower lower lower middle-class . ’ |
| 5 | Although I put my hands together every night — with Ma , when she 's home , otherwise on my own — I have not prayed since the rainbow incident . |
| 6 | My memory is n't what it was , although I daresay your names would come back to me if we waited a bit . ’ |
| 7 | Well that 's another you know route really al although I think your architects |
| 8 | erm I think that perhaps John Major might be a little more friendly , although I believe his views are similar , his approach may be different . |
| 9 | What happens when ‘ he ’ moves in and I ca n't work at all hours , ca n't eat when I like , ca n't take a bath any time I like , when he insists that I visit his relatives ? |
| 10 | ‘ I was shocked in the sense that I knew what inspectors could do , but I was n't worried because I thought they were just wasting their time . ’ |
| 11 | If you 'd known at the beginning that I knew your parents you would n't have even given me the time of day . |
| 12 | He seems to have known enough about ordinary medicine — and perhaps still have had the contacts within the profession — to make sure that I got my inoculations and injections at the correct times in my life , despite my official non-existence as far as the National Health Service is concerned . |
| 13 | I got back to work , by which I mean that I got my papers and notes out , and then sat looking at them for what seemed like a dreary lifetime , and was really probably only twenty minutes . |
| 14 | It was from there that I began my efforts to enquire into the operation of the judicial system in the area . |
| 15 | It is now time , however , that I eat my words . |
| 16 | he suggested , in short , that I vacate his premises |
| 17 | I hope that I chose my words with some care ; I do not want to add to them . |
| 18 | When you asked me to undertake a review of the management of the Prison Service , I told you that I thought my recommendations would be easier for me to make than for you to implement , but you assured me you believed the climate was ready for some radical change . |
| 19 | But it remains essential that I know their candidates ' attitudes before deciding . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm a businessman first and a boxer second , and the reason I 'm so successful as a pugilist is that I know my limitations better than anyone else . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I wish that I had her guts , ’ I thought . |
| 22 | Because I knew that I had my weaknesses , perhaps that is the reason that I was not more successful . |
| 23 | At this distance in time , I can not pretend that I had my doubts about its merits : what I did dwell on was a certain psychological subtlety in retailing the author 's love-life , though in terms which today would he considered ludicrously niminy-piminy . |
| 24 | Now that I had my dolls and their dolls ' houses , I set about playing with them with the greatest pleasure , and when I visited Wood Green I shut my eyes to some of the realities . |
| 25 | So you do see , do n't you , that I felt my hands were tied ? ’ |
| 26 | Advanced age had by now somewhat mellowed my mother , with the result that I enjoyed my visits to the palace , for when the subject was other than myself she could be stimulating and amusing company . |
| 27 | Later , when I was more familiar with the beliefs and practices of the movement and had ‘ learned the language ’ , I would interact with the Moonies as though I were one of them , and , although I never pretended that I accepted their beliefs or that I was anything other than a sociologist studying the movement , members who did not know me would mistake me for a member — the Moonies themselves were no longer ‘ translating ’ for me when we were interacting . |
| 28 | See that I carry your Lordships |
| 29 | It does n't matter that I disappointed my parents . |
| 30 | All I was told is that you 're getting twelve months guarantee , but you 've got to have a three thousand mile service , and as the gentleman said erm I recorded the deliveries and sent them all back and on the third one , when I took it in I asked if they 'd put a new set of points in for me and erm unfortunately when it came out there was no compression at all and because because I it was suggested that I dug my heels in a bit and got an independent report and erm basically they told me to get lost because it cost fifty pound to do the report . |