Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] i [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was so wrapped up in my own performances that I needed someone with experience to help . |
| 2 | On the whole I hate spoofs and I like everything played straight . |
| 3 | In Picasso 's subsequent move towards a more abstract kind of painting , the work of Braque may once again have been a stimulus , and Picasso 's remark to Braque , quoted by Michel Georges-Michel , ‘ I have tried your methods and I feel one can do excellent things with them ’ was perhaps made in connection with the new kind of painting Braque had invented in his still lifes of the first half of 1910 . |
| 4 | It follows that I am not using language properly if I say that you ought to do something , unless I hold by some universal principle from which this prescription follows and all other implications of which I would be prepared to endorse , most notably those which would prescribe under certain circumstances that I do something . |
| 5 | I have n't had a jelly for ages and I got one from Sainsbury 's . |
| 6 | ‘ When I arrived for training this morning , my wife had been on three times and I thought something had happened to my little girl , who was in hospital over the weekend . |
| 7 | bits and pieces but I need something else of the same size , you know |
| 8 | I know how to build those damned weapons but I know nothing about those fancy triggering devices . ’ |
| 9 | It is years since I wore one . |
| 10 | It 's years since I had one in my house . ’ |
| 11 | Each surgeon has his own way of doing things and I know something could go wrong . |
| 12 | As for me , I tell you as a friend , I feel impotent when confronted with such nature , for my Northern brains were oppressed by a nightmare in those peaceful spots as I felt one ought to do better things with the foliage . |
| 13 | I never thought I would like babies till I had one . |
| 14 | Talking of which , I 'd better look into these two queries before I do anything else . ’ |
| 15 | thoughts if I told someone my thoughts they 'd be absolutely disgusted . |
| 16 | At the time I was involved in various things at Philips Records and I asked someone if they knew of anyone who could get David out of his contract , and was told that he knew a man called Tony DeFries who was actually not allowed to practise at the bar — he was a consultant , a trouble-shooter , divorce cases . |
| 17 | Now you 're always making a balance in developing drugs and I have nothing to do with the drug industry , I 'm a G P , you have a balance between trying to move things forward to get people better and on the other hand making sure that you 're not going to do them any great harm . |
| 18 | I thought it was a bit of a cheek seeing as I 'm due here mornings but I 've nothing against Mrs. Schofield and if she wanted me I was n't above obliging . |