Example sentences of "i [verb] [conj] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | in in my course of work , I have three grown up sons and I think an awful lot of what we 're talking about is in your own attitude to men , and generally the most difficult men to deal with , I find , are men who for whatever reason , are actually inadequate , a little bit sensitive to women being competent I I have no difficulty at all in dealing with that , but I I 'm aware that it seems significant to me that a lot of the younger women here are much more shall we say , sensitive to erm , what I perceive as being basically male chauvinism . |
| 2 | In a way I think so , I mean if were quite honest about it but we also see ourselves mirrored in whoever we love we see ourselves mirrored in their eyes which is a very comfortable sort of feeling . |
| 3 | I fought but was never good at diplomacy . |
| 4 | Erm what , what contracts do I know that are still being er there 's a major project erm when does that finish ? |
| 5 | ‘ Because — well , I suppose because being near you was beginning to make me very nervous . ’ |
| 6 | Well yesterday the three things that I felt that were most useful to me was one the delivery two the coaching and the thought patterns . |
| 7 | One I envy but am never likely to possess . |
| 8 | ‘ I find most of them that have been very successful , I go and am very disappointed in some of the supposedly better ones out of America . |
| 9 | The Machine Gunners , for example , was cited by sixteen of the twenty-seven teachers to whom I spoke as being both consistently popular with pupils and also as being readily accessible to them because of the recent television serialization which caused heightened interest . |
| 10 | Yes it 's now going to take two years longer I think than was originally er contended , to what extent is this due to technical difficulties and to what extent is it due to one of our partners and Germany one 's thinking of in particular , wishing to slow the programme down for fiscal reasons ? |
| 11 | a nice person , I did n't know this , I found it in resources , but this , I sent for this book and I do n't , Rod 's referred to it I think and is now this bit . |
| 12 | Imagine how we felt when we heard talk , on the BBC , of the possible intention to bomb Puerto Madryn ( Welsh : Porth Madryn ) , named after Love Jones Parry of Madryn — which is a small village , some three miles from where I live and am now writing . |
| 13 | If he had n't been , I should have made many more mistakes than I did and been more unhappy than I was . |
| 14 | Sam looked out over the flooding river and breathed in the damp smell of the morning as if testing wine for bouquet , and I thought that he lived through his senses to a much greater degree than I did and was intensely alive in his direct approach to sex and his disregard of danger . |
| 15 | Yeah , and I said erm , and I said that were n't , if that was n't enough I said bearing in mind he 'd just come out of intensive care off a life support machine , I said and which I think that , that tells us that he needs a bit of extra care compared to some of them on the ward , I said I know they 're all important and I know you 're busy but I said I think you should 've had a bit of priority , he was dying , and you know he 's dying , you 'd been told , she said yes that 's right , I said but what really broke my bloody heart was from one o'clock that dinner time he sat in that chair , we left that hospital at half past eight and you assured us he 'd go to bed and when we came in the next morning at half past ten Joy he sat there exactly the bloody same , in the same filthy blanket and the same catheter on him , oh I went fucking mad and I said how dare you , I said because somebody 's told they 're dying does that mean they 've got to be forgot ? |
| 16 | and others really victim , I said but is n't it , is n't it kinder in a way , I would n't , if they really are sick in their minds then but for the grace of god would n't it be kinder to stick a needle in their bottoms when they were asleep so they did n't wake up again |
| 17 | ‘ I wish that were so ! ’ muttered Lucenzo under his breath . |
| 18 | Two of the patients with idiopathic DU had , however , serum pepsinogen I values that were more than 50% higher than the highest value of all the other groups studied ( Table 2 ) . |
| 19 | Firstly , and what I see as being most important his thoughts are used as an introduction to both acts . |