Example sentences of "[noun pl] and i [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then that question was asked last night erm from one chap about sport versus the arts and I suppose to me it is a quality of life issue erm where do you start an and stop I mean you have a problem when you have a recession do n't you , where you say okay we i we are in a recession we have got limited resources we have to make decisions . |
| 2 | Later I descended with the songs of the skylarks still in my ears and I listened to the grumbling of the men in the mist of the grey streets . |
| 3 | They are both disreputable practitioners of empty trades and I wanted to — ’ |
| 4 | Erm , putting images into words is not always easy , a colour in a painting can give you a way in and the brown of Van Gogh 's jacket erm affected me with this one particularly and the sun flower I felt was inappropriate misplace , in a vase to , to small , erm and it gave me an image a very strong image of suffering and this poem is in its very early stages and its literally just a list of images and I wanted to be able to show you how I start off which is with a series of images and then I have to put some filler in and open them up a bit and , and make them more accessible and understandable , but this is just a list form . |
| 5 | But that 's what I use , CNN , I read the New York Times and I listen to the BBC , even in America , for a different perspective . |
| 6 | Yes , I hope he is , she 's apparently , she 's erm a designer and the girl that makes it she designs the latest beautiful hats and I thought to myself if they 're those tall , biggest , you know those tall sort of round sort of like bowler hats , |
| 7 | I 'd been out the army about three days and I went to this dance with some army mates . |
| 8 | I rang up after two weeks and I spoke to the nurse and she said , oh , your cholesterol 's alright . |
| 9 | I mean I er er I mean I just do n't know how you , you begin and end with this actually I mean I really do n't and I mean I think quite frankly if Hydro Electric were to go out and say okay , we will fund the purchase of twenty houses four bedrooms each for the homeless right I would have thought in terms of doing something I mean I walk round Princes Street and I see those poor sods and I say to myself |
| 10 | I was real good at sports and I wanted to be a professional football player . |
| 11 | And I carried on doing that for quite a number of years and I managed to be voted onto the Edinburgh committee . |
| 12 | Er I myself and many others were here for two and a half years and I submit to you that this is a considerable portion of one 's adult lifetime and consequently , the experiences of the last three days have been very meaningful and very moving to those of us who did spend such a portion of our lives here in this place . |
| 13 | ‘ He is my Uncle ; we 've shared the same house for twenty years and I wanted to be with him . |
| 14 | I really I really do wish it was that simple and I wish that when I pick up The Star on a Thursday or one of the other local papers that I did n't read in it the twenty cars that 's broken into and and all the other problems and I say to myself now why did that happen . |
| 15 | I have been to the Over-Sixties Club where they have some very good concerts and I go to services at Cotherstone Methodist Chapel whenever I can . |
| 16 | I 've personally had problems with one doctor cos he was out of date , he was n't you know , was n't aware of some of the treatments and I had to actually enlighten him to some of the the treatments that was available for people ! |
| 17 | Closing my eyes in the gloom I could still feel Helen in my arms and I smiled to myself at the memory of her bounding healthiness . |
| 18 | I have big hands and I need to be able to grab onto something and bend the shit out of those strings . |
| 19 | conked out other day and he thought it were points , he changed points and I says to him have you changed plugs ? |
| 20 | So some of us went to Victoria Falls and I went to Durban where I had some relatives and attended the July Handicap , the only horse race in the world that runs through the streets . |
| 21 | I 'd coveted Lotta because she was coveted by other men and I had to be the winner . |
| 22 | So they had a big argument downstairs , this woman plod and the others and I said to John : ‘ Look . |
| 23 | but were Scottish women and I think to a Scottish woman two thousand pounds , I , I mean I know a lot of Scottish women |
| 24 | The sky becomes stained with clouds and I come to a stretch of land by the sea — I do n't know what else to call it . |
| 25 | A party of Holy Cross students and I went to the Dufferin Hospital , most of whose nurses had fled . |
| 26 | I am , I was born in Essex , in in hospital and my family all come from Essex , and I was brought up in Upminster and I was very fortunate in that I was born into a christian home and I had christian parents and christian grandparents and christian aunts and uncles and I went to church from the time I was about two or three weeks old . |
| 27 | One thing I struck me this week there 's a new regulation as regard punctures on tyres because I had this completely flat tyre and a whole new set of tyres and I said to him well ca n't you mend it , ca n't you put an inner tube in like I I 've done before cos there was a nail in it you see . |