Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sent away and passed the exams and I became a policeman , but I always wanted to become a policeman when I , from about eighteen or nineteen it 's just that I drifted the wrong way . |
| 2 | I think it 's more to the point cos what I was doing at Christmas was n't really exploring the attitudes as I wanted |
| 3 | I prevailed with the gaoler ( the sheriff denying me ) to take some of the seamen that I thought most dangerous [ i.e. the likeliest to try to escape ] a week ago , and , notwithstanding the strength of the place , from a turret … four men slipped away by a cord in a minute … |
| 4 | Richard wanted me to book thirty shows in the clubs and I did . |
| 5 | I suppose while this is for me cos on the sponsorship issue is , would sponsorship have any impact in terms of what I might purchase so if I went to the Scottish Opera or the ballet or to the theatre and I bought a programme which I usually do and one of the things which is interesting about the evening that erm Alan and I spent last time at Scottish Council was that half the people attend Scottish Opera buy a programme and the programmes that I have sponsored always . |
| 6 | ‘ He came round the desks and I kicked him in the back of his legs to get him to the floor and I used my shirt to put out the flames and Hazel gave him first aid . ’ |
| 7 | From the discussions that I have had with those groups and from some statements that I have received — I do not want to go into detail because they were confidential — I am confident that a solution could have been found which would have formed a reasoned consensus for those groups , for the interests that they represent and for the House . |
| 8 | I am confident from the discussions that I have had that we could have found the basis for an agreement . |
| 9 | Against that background — I doubt whether many hon. Members would dispute the dangers that I have outlined — the argument about who won at Maastricht is pitifully irrelevant . |
| 10 | At times I become so obsessive about the dangers that I find myself making lists of what could go wrong . |
| 11 | The conflicts that I referred to earlier commonly occur at the level of technique when operation is implemented in dissociation from appraisal , in the form , for example , of prescribed teaching materials which have the appearance of novelty . |
| 12 | It was for that reason that I took the stand I did , and put forward the views that I did . |
| 13 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that many of the views that I have expressed in the House , which at times have been received with ridicule and dismay , have become law subsequently ? |
| 14 | However , I never tested the bikes because I had really set my mind on staying on a 500 . ’ |
| 15 | I went cheerfully through , finding the coins as I went . |
| 16 | Of course he was n't always there because frequently there were notes from his mother to say that he had earache or something , but later on I realized , of course , that those notes had been faked , the same as the notes that I had sent to school from my mother several generations before that . |
| 17 | I mean , I think it 's terrible and , and I mean , if Mr Lilley himself went into some of the houses that I go into and see the the existence that they live , because that 's all it is , you know , it 's just an existence . |
| 18 | I always look at the houses as I walk by them . |
| 19 | I always look at the houses as I walk past , and I see a lot of things odder than that , but it 's not my business , is it ? |
| 20 | From the plans that I 've seen there 's no change from what they originally planned |
| 21 | I mean — um — I 'm phoning to let you know , because I 've finished the plans and I did n't know whether to send them or — ’ |
| 22 | Some very pretty specimens used to come into our garden and perch on the windowsills but I do n't know what kind of birds they were . |
| 23 | I was in the fruit and vegetable section waiting to weigh some potatoes on the scales when I saw a bairn of about three years old , a bonnie wee lad with fair hair and big dark blue eyes , picking apples out of the bin and shoving them into his mother 's shopping bag . |
| 24 | I pulled at it , jiggled it , checked the zero twice and I think I would have oiled the scales if I 'd had oil with me . |
| 25 | ‘ Willie can do the illustrations and I think you 'd better be Editor , Carrie , ’ suggested Zach . |
| 26 | Apart from the projects that I have mentioned , there is the electrification of the trans-Pennine routes , the electrification of the Perth-Inverness line , the modernisation of the London , Tilbury and Southend line , Thameslink 2000 and the potential modernisation of the north Kent line . |
| 27 | Looking forward to the circus , but could I ask you not to throw me to the lions until I 've got my accounts in order ? |
| 28 | I went to the woods because I wanted to deliberat I , I not |
| 29 | ‘ Rather stupidly , I went for a walk in the woods and I got lost . |
| 30 | This afternoon , he has treated the House to an extraordinary collection of half-truths and inaccuracies , but he has not told us the Labour party 's attitude to the proposals that I identified in the statement . |