Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He put down the tray on the floor , and brought out her cap from the pocket in his coat into which he had stuffed it , saying , however , ‘ Let go your hair or I do n't return it . ’ |
| 2 | Tony Visconti : ‘ When David and Angela found the enormous Victorian house , Haddon Hall , in Beckenham , my girlfriend and I went along to see it and we loved it . |
| 3 | ‘ My girlfriend and I have also talked about contraception I would not be embarrassed to buy condoms . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm no use to anyone in football and I had better get out , ’ he said . |
| 5 | I always find I say to Kim you know I mean you have all these you know it 's like Shaun 's giving up he 's giving up his karate and his football and I said well you know I 'm sorry but she should n't have let him . |
| 6 | ‘ I just want to play regular football and I do n't think there 's a better place to do that than at Goodison . ’ |
| 7 | Oddly enough , I found that I could keep the port wing up for a considerable time and , as I lost flying speed and I came nearer and nearer to the Engineering Wing area , the port wing happily stayed in the air until my speed was very low indeed and then gradually — and I did not think of this — one ( and only one ) of the prop blades gently ploughed into the rather soft earth , My port wing was still in the air , and ever so gently we made a beautiful semi-turn to port . |
| 8 | Hide added : ‘ I 'm fit , I 'm fast and I hit hard , ’ before heading towards stratospheric levels of self-delusion by saying : ‘ I 'm better than Evander Holyfield , I 've got better footwork and speed and I do n't get hit like him . ’ |
| 9 | I do n't understand it but I seem to have found some extra money in my purse and I do n't know where it came from . |
| 10 | Futch , who 's trained five world champions and who originally rejected Bowe , says : ‘ I was in my late 70s after Bowe 's Olympic defeat and I did n't want to waste a minute of my time on someone who was n't 100 per cent dedicated . ’ |
| 11 | You know the end , and I know the end , now we know what happened , now we know what I should have done … but I was not at the end of the movie , I was in the middle of the movie and I did n't know the ending . ’ |
| 12 | The draft reply contained one threat to report I M R O to the Securities and Investment Board for excessive enquiries er and for an unreasonable attitude and the other er bit of the reply was effectively a form of covering up presenting full financial information and disclosure to I M R O. Those replies were drafted by people inside the Maxwell organisation and you may want to comment on er the position , although I should stress at this stage that I like you have not seen the final version of any reply and I do not know whether I M R O persisted . |
| 13 | Got to be a member of the supporters club and I do n't know how many tickets we 've been allocated by Oxford . |
| 14 | Well I 'm still treasurer at the bowls club and I do n't feel that I want to take on two . |
| 15 | Behind me his body began to beat against the stern of the boat , and as I turned toward him I saw Rachel from the corner of my eye begin to clamber up from her seat and I called out to her to stay sitting and not to stand but she laughed lightly and tossed back her head and I felt Casey behind me clambering into the boat . |
| 16 | I can only wear short ones otherwise they catch on the back of the driving seat and I do n't like that . |
| 17 | and I was very moved by the photograph and I ended up writing a poem to this little girl , and indeed one thing I can say , perhaps with some pride , is that Doctor Barnardos know about this poem , and somehow who was writing a history Barnardo children actually asked to use it in her book . |
| 18 | There was an embarrassing moment when I thought he was walking over to me to begin the programme and I got up to greet him . |
| 19 | Mr. Walker : I do not blame the Hon. Gentleman for making such a speech just before a by-election , but I am glad to tell him that tomorrow I shall go through every detail of the valleys programme and I look forward to the Labour party 's publishing beside each item what the Labour Government achieved in their last five years . |
| 20 | But then what — ’ And I stopped as light flooded my mind and I saw clearly the chain of circumstances which connected us . |
| 21 | ‘ Clinton has a first-rate mind and I do n't think it 's necessarily a bad thing that he 's undefined . |
| 22 | I I do n't think myself and I still have an open mind and I do n't think that the Labour case erm adds up to be perfectly honest . |
| 23 | Well my brother was in the Artillery and I thought well it be nice if I can get with him but that did n't work out that way . |
| 24 | Mr Wyatt is determined to find his brother-in-law and I do n't want that to happen when Dana is with him . ’ |
| 25 | The vestal virgins had gone for a tea break and I sat down thankfully in the cool of the ruins and closed my eyes . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm an optimist and I do truly believe that Eldorado is a good idea and that it will work . |
| 27 | so that they are fully trained and ready to handle the problems that might arise erm there is , however , cause for some er optimism and I refer specifically to the recreational page from the Estuaries Consultation Document from English Nature and in one of their er proposals and objectives they say encouraging self regulation and observance of Code of Practice by local clubs and groups to avoid clon conflict with and or disturbance to other users including nature conservation interests . |
| 28 | I am a lawyer and I work very hard . |
| 29 | And there was a funny silence and Dylan said that he 'd bet I could n't do that scream like that with a cigarette in my mouth and I shook off the centuries , stopped staring , smiled a little , noted that he had indeed monumentally screamed with a cigarette in his mouth and went stunned back to my crossword . ’ |
| 30 | I ran down to meet him , but when I got there I saw that he had narrow eyes and a mean mouth and I did n't like him one bit . |