Example sentences of "[noun pl] and i [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | He teaches me one of his songs and I sing it while he plays the guitar . |
| 2 | And as I understand it they came down from somewhere er near they obviously were involved in the slate business and then they or organized their own firm Brothers and I believe it was about seventeen er eighty nine , maybe earlier . |
| 3 | I think the Arabs have the same rights as the Jews and I think it is a tragedy of history that a people who are refugees make new refugees . |
| 4 | I think the Arabs have the same rights as the Jews and I think it is a tragedy of history that a people who are refugees make new refugees . |
| 5 | If you look around there a lot more physicists who are Christian than people taking the arts subjects and I reckon it could be that the arts bombard you with a lot of different views and maybe you find it hard to crystallize to say what you want ; whereas in physics we get told precisely the answer and we realize that we do n't understand it totally . |
| 6 | but as I wrote this and you know put in the acc th the conflict , it came up to two thousand five hundred words and I taped it and timed it and I 've been butchering it and cutting out all the really nice little sentences and the nice sentences and I 've got it down to two one sixty and now with that announcement on the end , as I 've got it taped , it 's fourteen minutes fifty-nine seconds for a fifteen minute slot , so it 's about as precise as you 're gon na get it . |
| 7 | And I stuck it in there and I , I figured it had been there now for what eighteen months and I think it was you who said oh give it another six months |
| 8 | There 's been quite a lot of comment in the press erm , on high levels of , of salary of , of remu remuneration for directors and I think it might be helpful er , if I was were t were , were to make some general remarks on the background er , of how we er , approach directors ' remuneration . |
| 9 | It gives me the creeps and I know it frightened the kiddies . |
| 10 | Its response — a programme of positive action training for black staff — is one of a range of possible responses and I hope it will monitor its effectiveness carefully . |
| 11 | I mean you see all these mountains and I mean it just looks that beautiful and |
| 12 | The first few times I lit the stove , up popped yellow flames and I turned it off . |
| 13 | I am here partly because I was fortunate enough to have the happiest and healthiest of childhoods and I see it as a very happy obligation to try to do my best to ensure that all over the world it is possible for other children to enjoy something of what I had . |
| 14 | But I slip down a couple of back roads and I find it soon enough . |
| 15 | When I was at college I did a pastiche of the student magazine , doing the fold , and it was called Shell , so we renamed it for that one issue Rolling Shell , and I ever so carefully did the lettering for both the title boxes , then I got really disappointed when it came to set the type for the front page article underneath the big photograph which we printed as duo tone , because I could do it on the I B M — I could actually do it in Times and I thought it was going to be really , you know , I 'd have to really struggle and find |
| 16 | These bodies My Lords are after all precepting authorities and I think it crucial that those who 've been elected by their local communities should be in a clear majority and I sympathise very much with the er proposition in this regard , set out in the Noble Lord , Lord 's Amendment number twenty-one . |
| 17 | ‘ It was a real killer — you lose all your contacts and I knew it would be desperately difficult to come back , ’ he says . |
| 18 | so I had a lot of contacts and I enjoyed it . |
| 19 | ‘ I said ten days and I meant it . |
| 20 | Universities are very independent organisations and I suppose it , it 's more like a league than a governing body . |
| 21 | They were , of course , all in pale fright colours and I felt it might be difficult to distinguish the identities of the females . |
| 22 | there was a big discussion about the standard report , it wo n't cover five years and I said it does n't have to cover five years , it never has done it 's only covered four cos we what we do in year eleven is different anyway . |
| 23 | After the war opinion was more fluid and open on political grounds the tariff issue had been dead for years and I felt it was one which would pull the party together , including the Lloyd George malcontents . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been working at the restaurant for three years and I like it there . |
| 25 | He has no complaint : ‘ I 've been five years and I think it 's only fair that someone else should have a chance . ’ |
| 26 | I think that 's not uncommon actually if you , when you get people who 've , who 've been away from the education system for a f a few years and I think it 's almost like mature students do have more anxiety than people who come straight from school generally speaking I think erm |
| 27 | Men have got a bad press in recent years and I think it 's important that women should feel safe and secure with the new contacts they make . |
| 28 | The other aspect is there are a large number of people a large number of these countries depend on their forest industries for producing foreign exchange which is particularly scant , a lot of the world , particularly Africa is suffering from debt problems , erm I worked in Uganda for 14 years and I found it really to get back there : the salary of a forest officer now is something , is worth in real terms something like 1 percent of what it was in 1962. erm His salary in 1962 was something in the region of six thousand a year in present terms , it 's now worth £60. erm He has to go out and get most of his livelihood from some other source , and Uganda 's an extreme case , but there are many other African countries where the position is similar . |
| 29 | I er I 've discussed these availability figures and I think it 's important in Richmondshire 's case er to get the answer right . |
| 30 | I went in one of them cage things and I got it over — well , you have to push with your legs and you sort of pull with your arms and nobody else could do it . |