Example sentences of "[noun pl] i [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 They 're one of the reasons I now make everyone come to me , rather than traipsing round the world . ’
2 After a few minutes I unexpectedly found myself singing a song which I was sure I had not sung since Eton days forty years before .
3 For ten minutes I never saw my float as the fish cruised up and down .
4 ‘ Loadsa times I nearly trod one into the ground .
5 You always see the foxes I never see them .
6 It had puzzled me originally , but after a quick word with Glyn as you came into the offices I now see he wants to pressurise you into following his wishes and signing the house over . ’
7 In the early months I still had my natural aversion to overcome , before I understood the fundamental strangeness of the process of fruition .
8 On performances I personally think we are worth more than the 2 pts per game average .
9 But though they were excellent makers of models to other people 's plans and designs I quickly found they could only work well if they were given very detailed constructional drawings and plans .
10 is part of which I think is just ridiculous and will be a nice well meaning democratic tolerant guy in but considering the history of those two countries I rather doubt it erm and I , I think the best way of securing er the safety of that population is actually to change the border before the borders are are fixed and settled and before these countries actually become independent .
11 For the last two lines I usually get everyone to clap and at the end to raise their hands and shout ‘ Oi ’
12 It 's based on the two fingered symbol of peace , and although it was originally designed for lead guitars I eventually scaled it up to use on my basses ; it 's one of the features that makes them instantly recognisable . ’
13 Yes , in the old days I always made his appointments for him . "
14 Then I made him a little tent to sleep in , but for a few weeks I always took my gun to bed with me .
15 As a reader of over 60 years I never found you more stimulating .
16 Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that
17 Jean added : ‘ I was doing things I never dreamed I would have done .
18 When I was with the cattle I always wore my the cap on the side of my head .
19 I had aches in muscles I never knew I owned .
20 When Webern conducted student concerts I often found myself caught up in the riots .
21 ‘ Next thing we were playing support on a Mary Black tour and from doing folk club gigs for maybe 100 customers I suddenly found myself doing 20 nights in a row in front of 2,000 people or more . ’
22 I still remember him , after all those years , as one of the best-looking men I ever saw I 've never loved anyone in the same way since .
23 ‘ For all his faults , for all our shouting and yelling , for all the bad , we reached heights I never knew I could .
24 In those days I think I must have regarded many of the people dotted about my landscape more as bushes than as the human beings I now see them to have been : some dull and uninteresting like laurel bushes ; some like lavender sweetly scented ; some thorny , to be avoided ; and then rose bushes , gooseberry bushes , fuchsia bushes — but all just part of the scenery , and I withdrawn from them into my dreams .
25 ‘ The bough with leaves I once sent you .
26 So the ones I definitely know I 'm going to get appointments with , if I go and do that , I put myself into a comfort zone do n't I ?
27 One of the few occasions I ever saw him and the only one in which we sat face to face .
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