Example sentences of "[noun sg] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Get scribbling to me , if you 're 18-21 , female , pretty , and live in Cambridge- I 'm 20 and like almost anything , including rock music and lipstick smudging ! |
| 2 | When they grew up and went off into the wild I suffered dreadful pangs . |
| 3 | One mistress I could ignore — but he 's now on his sixth . |
| 4 | bluecollar gipsy I can see it in your eyes . |
| 5 | But I was one with the solitaries of the spirit , too : with St Teresa and St John of the Cross as well as with humbler dissidents like Jordi and one or two other men of the working class I had known in Spain , the young bank clerk I had met in Cordoba the previous spring , among the orange and lilac blossom of Las Tendillas , where we walked and whispered , hardly daring to look at one another , and separating at the sight of police . |
| 6 | Turning back to the clerk I said , ‘ It 's my sister . |
| 7 | ( If it is addressed to myself as Parish Clerk I will see that it is displayed prominently in the village . ) |
| 8 | In my days as a Justice 's Clerk I saw enough corpses to know that death can grossly disfigure even the comeliest of faces . ’ |
| 9 | Erm I did say at the time if the Council agreed it was we would approve the new application it would only be if the original was rescinded and I did speak to the Town Clerk so there 's no need , I 'm not making a big issue , but I think the Council should be aware and the Town Clerk I believe has notified because again this is one of those things that could happen at a later date and as we all know if we have n't made these things perfectly clear . |
| 10 | You know that stripy T-shirt I 've got the |
| 11 | If I want a T-shirt I do n't go to any pile I go to the hangers . |
| 12 | No chance to talk to Mum about the bike I dream of day and night ! |
| 13 | And I knew exactly the bike I wanted . |
| 14 | Before they gave me a bike I had to earn it , I had to work in the garden . |
| 15 | When I did get to the bike I saw it was virtually in pieces and realised that Darren had been attempting the job himself . |
| 16 | it 's not as if there 's anywhere where you can hire a bike I 'm sure you know , but , I suppose you 're going along on the road , across the road I |
| 17 | Like a B M X bike I expect . |
| 18 | He is very good , Mr , and he has been a county councillor in I think Staffordshire , before the days of pindown I have to er , hasten to add , but he does know both sides of the er , street as it were . |
| 19 | By the time I had replaced the telephone in its cradle I had realized in a sudden , terrifying swoop of misery that I was in genuine danger . |
| 20 | I am also grateful to the Friends of St Cecilia 's Hall and the Russell Collection for a grant I received from the J. J. K. Rhodes Bursary Fund towards the research for this paper . |
| 21 | Erm , two er three points would I like , erm , picking up a couple of comments earlier , and coming back to a , I think if we use a cricketing analogy , a long hop I 'd like to bowl at you Chair , and you may hit it in Mr Wincup 's direction . |
| 22 | if you get the virginal I do n't think |
| 23 | I have n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing , but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the university and to sort of expand my contacts , and the Meeting House is one of those places which is open to the general public on Sundays for religious worship . |
| 24 | I had n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the University and to sort of expand my contacts . |
| 25 | As a scientist I can not believe it — but I saw it happen with my own eyes . |
| 26 | Of course — he pulled himself together a bit — as a scientist I find all these phenomena extremely interesting . |
| 27 | A scientist I know is amazed how often his eight year-old son can see immediately through a tangle of ideas in a problem — the directness and uncomplicatedness and openness of the child is a huge asset which many adults have lost . |
| 28 | Now he does n't actually make the concession I think it 's consistent of what he says , that he ought to concede that direct democracy might be better at improving the citizens , because after all the citizens have much more to do on in service of the state but his view is that direct democracy has the opposite failure to guardianship , that while it might be better at improving citizens it 's absolutely hopeless in managing the affairs of the state and his reasons for that is that we need experts with experience in order to carry out the affairs of government and although these people ought ultimately to be held responsible to the people , people should n't sit in judgment them in every one of their decisions . |
| 29 | The only concession I could not get was leave to see him alone , but it 's plain I should have got nowhere with him even so . |
| 30 | The File Manager obligingly scans the entire disk and lists all the files beginning with Q. I can see that the ones I want have been installed under D : \WINDOWS\QUOTE , and I can use the File Manager to look at them . |