Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] and i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know I asked you to commit yourself , how much do you think it 's worth for me to do all this kind of work and he 's , you 're confused because you think I 'm actually talking about money and I take the weight off your shoulders by saying no it 's not actually money , it 's in the form of two or three names , people open minded like yourself , who I can sit down and discuss the whole situation with |
| 2 | In our marriage George worries about money and I worry about everything else . |
| 3 | Er yes current position er at the moment I 'm the licence training manager for brewery and I 've held that position for five and a half years . |
| 4 | I had done the score for Warren for Reds and I 'd never quite finished it , so I always felt I owed him one . ’ |
| 5 | I have n't had a jelly for ages and I got one from Sainsbury 's . |
| 6 | A can of Tetleys Bitter never tasted better as Jim and I soaked up the sun burning its way through the Californian coastal mist . |
| 7 | Well whatever — now 's the time , one would have thought , for Tod and me to kick off our shoes and get the feel of the place . |
| 8 | I rolled a much leaner version for Melanie and me to share . |
| 9 | ‘ The Jockey Club are looking for action and I hope what I devise will be practical and can be implemented . ’ |
| 10 | The second number is for emergencies and I do mean emergencies , not running low on Kleenex . |
| 11 | It was him that arranged for David and I to meet . |
| 12 | Well quite a lot , we we went out with them for a meal last night erm we had an interpreter who who was the only one that could speak English but it was it was well worth the evening , it did a lot for relationships and I think that there should be more of this in football , that off the field people should get to know each other a lot better and we felt at the end of the evening that it had been well worthwhile . |
| 13 | They do n't understand about spies and I expect they eat merchants . ’ |
| 14 | Again this is about the procedure that we 're following , but we 're talking now about rules procedures for branches and I have to say that I 'm up here without the support of my region on this one . |
| 15 | Were getting into an area which I think is a whole different programme and before this programme started I might tell you we were having a little er discussion amongst ourselves whether or not er zoo 's were good for animals and I suppose there is a discussion about whether prisons are inevitably going to be degrading because of , because of what er , what , what a prison represents which is a curtailment of freedom , but we do n't have time in this programme , so that 's another one for next year , can I ask you , we 've , we 've touched a lot of basis and it must be frustrating that we ca n't pursue er to the end some of the things we 've er , we 've picked on , but can I ask you a couple of final questions , as far as you know have you committed a crime ? , button one for yes and button two for no , as far as you know , I mean we have n't got time to go into what they might be so your perfectly free to be very honest and honestly reveals that three people are n't quite sur , oh yes there they are |
| 16 | Well they said what you having for tea and I said well we 'll have to have you can have a few beans or something |
| 17 | ‘ Nevertheless , conditions in certain markets of importance to Volex give grounds for optimism and I expect the Group to make further progress in the current year . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I went to sit in the library to wait for Mummy and I started to cry . ’ |
| 19 | Well I well I 'll have a week 's holiday after Easter and I 've got ta go unless we go to . |
| 20 | Tha him , look how , look how he after mummy and I give him |
| 21 | ‘ Although Maureen seems to be kept busy driving after work and I think she looks better than she has for ages . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Well , no , not after Hugh and I became engaged , ’ Veronica said awkwardly . |
| 23 | As far as I 'm concerned , that was the understatement of the year — we 'll let you know how we 're getting on after Skipper and I have enjoyed the summer together . |
| 24 | I asked him to go away after lunch and I asked him to go away after supper , and he went away both times . |
| 25 | I mean they only threw him out because they just did n't , have the , the , the staff , I mean I sat in there day after day and I felt bloody sorry , they were ringing , ninety percent of their day taken by ringing , begging for staff |
| 26 | Mrs had got home in her jeep with just chauffeur and one extra bodyguard , defying the pleas of the other wives , some half an hour after Kaptan and I had left with the Corporal , but she had n't been able to get the Colonel on the military net for nearly two hours after that . |
| 27 | I sent him away after supper and I 've been finishing Emma . |
| 28 | It gave me an appetite for working over there , so after Nick and I split up I decided to try my hand across the Pond . |
| 29 | You know given that life is as it is are you okay and he said yes so I went round the gardens and I came back to him and I had a friend coming for lunch and I thought this is ridiculous , I 'm going to have something to drink and I 'm going to have a meal so I made him an enormous great wad of cheese sandwiches and some apples and a piece of cake and some biscuits and a cup of tea and I went downstairs with the milk and the sugar and cup of tea and all this stuff and I went into the gardens and this poor child he looked very defensively a second time and I said well I thought you might like some breakfast and I wrapped the second lot up so if you 've nothing later on , why not put it in your pocket and eat later in the day and I did n't know whether you took milk or sugar , so I thought I 'd better just ask you and do you know I thought he was going to cry . |
| 30 | That 's right , it 's just that I worked , I think , yesterday I could n't get into erm , I just could n't get into and yesterday I must admit I felt really rough and erm , I thought at three o'clock I was going to have to ring Iris , cos I knew you were still out you see and at three o'clock I thought I was going to have to ring Iris er just to come in cos I ca n't like your head was my stomach was churning over , it was n't till , soon as I get some food in front of me oh I get , you see I did n't feel too cracking in the morning and I thought well there 's lots of stomach bugs going about and I thought well I 'm having one of them , and I did n't know what I fancied for lunch and I cooked the kiddies theirs , they had fish and what have you , and erm , I thought well what can I have , I thought I what , I thought I got a little tin of salmon there , so I thought right I 'll have a salmon sandwich and I had that and believe me I felt , by three o'clock I could see myself picking me up off the floor , I only got spots before my eyes as such , but , I just had , I had four , five cups of water , I did n't drink any tea , and I wish then , well I do n't know whether I could have felt any worse when I had the sandwich or not to be honest . |