Example sentences of "of [noun pl] i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 After the first couple of minutes I thought we were going to be in for a really entertaining game .
2 With such a varied contingent of activities I say what is the need for school !
3 The following is summary of notes I showed you today , I do n't think Rob was in a receptive mood ! :
4 I wo n't the amount of times I 've I 've been in a car or something , where fucking jump on the brakes !
5 I could n't tell you how , but it I , cos you 'd , I do n't want nothing , but when I did , I 'd got ta use my ingenuity to get something that I could get one or two or a dozen or ten off , you know what I mean , and I got ta make it and a lot of times I made it out of wood which was easily er you know treated .
6 so we started called her lip , but that happened before I got there so , as I got there it just like , as I joined got in with the regulars it started to peter out a bit , but I got fooled with a couple of times I thought they were taking the piss , alright Lynn how you doing , you know , still .
7 And with most with a lot of calculators I mean you Do n't try it unless you really know your calculator and know how it works , you can just keep pressing equals ,
8 Er I think a court of referees I think they called it .
9 Okay that sort of covers I think what I need to know for for election stuff .
10 and another morning there 's a stream of cars I think it 's being one minute ear early or one minute late
11 I feel like I 'd , I could take an axe to them oh look at that look oh dear , probably seen his mother butchered ah see that big fat body just then a pair of feet I thought it was his , did you see that ?
12 If I had to select one of my pairs of binoculars for observations of nebulæ I think I would choose the × 7 instrument , though I agree that the more powerful binoculars can bring out more details in the fainter nebulæ .
13 Yes , yes , cos the first couple of weeks I mean she did n't sleep .
14 ‘ After a couple of days I hope I 'll be able to go home ! ’ she shot back at once .
15 After a couple of glasses I think you 'll be ready for round two . ’
16 Knowing my partner 's dislike of traverses I laced it with gear — but inserted that final , final nut before making the last heave to safety .
17 The the facilities the kind of things I mean what what kind of you know the ki erm is erm Would you like more there to be more friendly people or not , do you or do you think there 's enough ?
18 what sort of things I mean they 're singles ?
19 I 'd be interested to know whether Neil did that list of things I asked him to do .
20 So , those are the sorts of things I take it that , that er we do think are a more interesting way of individuating people than their bodily .
21 Yes , I wanted to make a point on the disciplinary side , which is as senior proctor the side of things I find myself thinking most about , and this is going back to the question of policing and whether it 's appropriate to talk in those terms .
22 ‘ Ari there are a couple of things I think we should talk about , ’ Leila said , settling down on the cushions beside the girl .
23 I go about in a wheelchair and someone who pushes it very often goes into a shop and says , ‘ Look here , you have bought rather a lot of things I think you had better give a cheque for them — now I ? I write the cheque out , dear , and you shall sign it . ’
24 To compete , I suppose , Malc had his ego ( and other parts ) massaged between the sheets and in my heart of hearts I knew his affairs were superficial — of the genitals rather than the heart — and during one of our deep analytical discussions on the subject , he admitted that he could n't wait to leave his lover 's bed and get home once the act was over .
25 But in my heart of hearts I know I can not telephone him .
26 Lower than a thousand units er there 's no immediate affect and one 's tempted to think that erm the er er it 's , that radiation 's therefore safe below that level and that 's not strictly true because there is the possibility of a long term affect it can actually cause cancer in the long term but with very low er ra- er levels of risk cos you can see down at the levels where people actually get radiation doses er like erm members of the public or erm from the actual background of people who work in nuclear power stations , you 're talking about very low levels but the levels , those sort of levels I mean one in three hundred thousand , one in three million , that sort of thing you ca n't actually measure in real er populations because there er any effects that there are can be swamped by other ways of getting er of getting cancer .
27 Er , in a number of ways I think everybody will agree that it 's been improved by er the er demolition of the terrace blocks , rather than refurbishment and the opportunity has been taken to create erm perhaps a a more comfortable relationship between bungalows that are about to be refurbished and the new houses , because the new houses are designed in such a way as to keep the scale down so whereas the terraced blocks were anything up to four storey , the new houses will only be two storey and in a number of cases they will they will be a relatively low two storey so that erm I will just point out on the front elevations that the roof comes down fairly low relative to the first floor windows so that it 's not too much above the , the roofs on the bungalows , we 're not talking about compromising people 's heads on the internal though !
28 There 's a couple of friends I know who might be able to give me a bed for the night .
29 ‘ Break up … ‘ ' is about a string of friends I had who were very intense people and at that age , when your friends talk about the slim separation between life and death — and you set that against the fact that this period of your youth is supposed to be the most playful and reckless — well , if you utilized that period in a very intense way , that feeling never really leaves you . ’
30 But sometimes , because he does n't have hundreds of depots I think he 's not regional , but that 's my own fault .
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