Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] 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 | ‘ The Jockey Club are looking for action and I hope what I devise will be practical and can be implemented . ’ |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I went to sit in the library to wait for Mummy and I started to cry . ’ |
| 8 | Well I well I 'll have a week 's holiday after Easter and I 've got ta go unless we go to . |
| 9 | Tha him , look how , look how he after mummy and I give him |
| 10 | ‘ Although Maureen seems to be kept busy driving after work and I think she looks better than she has for ages . ’ |
| 11 | I asked him to go away after lunch and I asked him to go away after supper , and he went away both times . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | I sent him away after supper and I 've been finishing Emma . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But I had one ‘ misery ’ in this friendship : she went home for lunch and I did n't ! |
| 17 | But er when we when that er train I er had I 'd written the postcard for home and I asked a lady if she 'd post it for me . |
| 18 | When they were well out of the way we made tracks for home and I looked forward to a quiet evening . |
| 19 | it was only ten to eight and I got up because I thought I was getting late for work and I 'd better get moving . |
| 20 | one thing you 've got to watch out for apar I go I remember I , I was thinking about getting colour monitors for work and I read lots of articles about them |
| 21 | Thank you for listening and I hope today |
| 22 | ‘ In fact my girlfriend Claudia and I have talked about marriage and I do n't see why we should n't wed sometime although we have not set a date . |
| 23 | Oh I want card for run and I bet I ca n't bloody do owt with this lot . |
| 24 | Afterwards , the actor was swept from the courtroom and along the corridors , closely pursued by screaming fans and on to the court steps , where he said in a prepared statement : ‘ This has not been a case about homosexuality and I resent any suggestion that it was . |
| 25 | ‘ Captain Montgomery has been reporting the state of progress and I thought you might like to hear it . |
| 26 | Evergreen Gordon Strachan added his vote too , saying : ‘ He has taken a lot of stick and I know that feeling ; that sick-to-your stomach feeling after a costly mistake , like a missed penalty . |
| 27 | ‘ YES , I was fired up — I always get like that when I 've had a bit of stick and I have had a lot of stick lately . ’ |
| 28 | And the man had a mouthful of champagne and I thought he was going to have a heart attack . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ It brought me a lot of luck and I hope it brings her just as much . ’ |
| 30 | well this is it I think she was beginning to endanger her chances of re-election and I think |