Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I hope ROI qualify as I 've got a ticket from a mate for ONE game in Boston …
2 Dumping the monster hide as I reached the bottom of the shaft , I hurried away along some disused-looking passages , by then moving on bootless , bare and blistered feet .
3 I almost had a Vulcan mind melt when I saw the colour graphics on this version of Star Trek .
4 I almost had a Vulcan mind melt when I saw the colour graphics on this version of Star Trek .
5 Oldham only looked threatening Id imagine because I had victor on my shoulder telling me they were bound to score .
6 So the basic assumption is that the developmental process is failure-driven : actions are continually failing to fulfil the assimilatory intention ( recall the term Functionlust that I used earlier ) and must therefore be modified .
7 ‘ I felt guilty enough to want to help the marriage succeed because I 'd introduced them and had n't thought to warn Rachel , mainly because I did n't find him attractive myself and he 'd never come across as the great seducer with me , and I knew that if it did n't work , it would turn out to be a lifelong trap for her .
8 I strongly believe , as I 'm sure all my group do and I think perhaps many of of of erm opposition , in local authority housing function .
9 Does my right hon. Friend know that I gave up the opportunity of becoming a solicitor like the hon. Member for Glasgow , Garscadden ( Mr. Dewar ) because accountants put the losses on the right and the profits on the left ?
10 I can escape other troubles and concentrate on just the one problem — how to make that damn ball go where I want .
11 Will my hon. Friend do as I did and haul the leading debtors among large firms before him , to tell them that unless they jolly well pay their debts , Government legislation to force them to do so will follow ?
12 Mime is such a male dominated art form that I decided to develop a women 's group , to encourage more black women into mime .
13 It 's not that I t I my friend come cos I do have her little boy now straight from school , she pays for him to have a taxi from Endrodenny down to my house and I do have him until she finishes work and she said oh coming out tomorrow ?
14 all da evening but then like last night see if I know that she 's been chomping on and off all night she 'll go for four or five hours .
15 DOES MY METABOLIC RATE VARY WHEN I DIET ?
16 Right as far as that writing see if I want you to remind me that 's where we 're up to next lesson and I shall give you a few more notes on that to explain about how it happens ten thousand times .
17 I 've been having to deal with electricity since the word go and I 've tried to use it in a musically creative and responsible way .
18 I was surprised to see that the recording venue was good old Abbey Road Studios : there is such a prominent background rumble that I had assumed it must have been some city church .
19 How then can the causal analysis show that I know that all men die ?
20 I am still dreaming of the white cotton lace bedspread that I have always promised to knit for my ‘ best friend ’ because I know that she had always wanted one .
21 I could n't imagine a little car with a luxury big-car feel until I drove the Metro .
22 Yeah we had him about we had him a year look cos I bought him just before Christmas
23 BELVILLE : Now , Pamela , is the dreadful time of reckoning come that I have threatened .
24 I can remember a party dress that I loved — a white one with bright , tiny flowers on and lace trimming .
25 ‘ Tell me , then , what would my wife your mother do if I took you home with me ?
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