Example sentences of "[noun pl] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've told yer lots o' times me an' Tommy finished long ago . |
| 2 | Many are the times me wife and I have sat at the table with a large sheet of graph paper and worked it all out , only to find that either my ruler 's idea of an inch does n't tally with the real thing , or the width of a pencil line on the plan actually equates to a foot in real life . |
| 3 | This really is committee work but I , it does occur to me that mention it that erm , if in our advertising we point out that we have a car park attendant and if that car park attendant were to let one slip through his fingers me were , we may well then be liable to be sued by the person who |
| 4 | Leslie was disturbed to hear of this latest small trauma : ‘ It distresses me , ’ he wrote , ‘ to think of you being chivvied about in the way you are ; after all , the army supports me , and when it moves me thinks a wee bit about me . |
| 5 | It is the abuse of freedom which homosexuals have won which distresses me . |
| 6 | Comfortable within my landlord 's neat demesne , I am cushioned against the uglification of the landscape which offends and distresses me the moment I cross the boundaries . |
| 7 | It makes even worse reading and it distresses me to have to bring it to the attention of the House . |
| 8 | It distresses me . |
| 9 | The council leader , Owen Taylor , said : ‘ We are being used as a scapegoat and that distresses me . |
| 10 | Is n't it possible that the informant deliberately told the kidnappers I would be there , knowing what the consequences were likely to be ? ’ |
| 11 | So we either , in terms of number of institutions I would think we probably count it as an F E institution , because this the A level is , is much smaller than the other F E. But in terms of F E students and sixth form students , what I would want to do is count the A level students as sixth form students . |
| 12 | The egoist might raise a further objection : granted that I do indeed suffer from a sufferer 's viewpoint , I generally feel very much less from other viewpoints than from my own ; then will not the inclinations I choose in obedience to ‘ Be aware ’ tend to be self-centred , even if they do not quite fulfil the requirements of a pure philosophical egoism ? |
| 13 | ‘ Better get back into the woods I reckon . |
| 14 | Aunt , Thérèse whispered : it was , the lady in the woods I mean , when I got there , I saw her . |
| 15 | For the club handicap player , the 1 and 2-irons , and if something has to go from the woods I would leave out either the driver or 2-wood . |
| 16 | Cos they we the woods I suppose ? |
| 17 | It 's this neck of the woods I do n't know . |
| 18 | Er there 's mine needs a few bits and bobs I ca n't do it though cos I have n't got enough money . |
| 19 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |
| 20 | That , wrote Harsnet , is part of the reason why I have chosen glass and not canvas or wood , that is why in my notes I have called it a delay in glass , which is to say a refusal of shit . |
| 21 | The following is summary of notes I showed you today , I do n't think Rob was in a receptive mood ! : |
| 22 | The thing was , they were playing blues in both major and minor keys , and I was feeling very tied down by the number of notes I could reach in my major open tunings . |
| 23 | For some time I had wanted to move further from London with its many social distractions , and now with the half million words of notes I had brought back with me from my world tour waiting to be distilled into a book , I felt the need more than ever . |
| 24 | For a long time I did not know whether the notes I was accumulating would be published one day , but that did not deter me . |
| 25 | I never ceased to be astounded by how quickly and thoroughly he absorbed the notes I gave him . ’ |
| 26 | However , as soon as we reached the interview for the home/school post a debate on the school and the community began again as shown from the notes I took where the main participants in the discussion were Phil Barlow ( the Deputy Head for Curriculum ) , Chris Cousins ( the Deputy Head for Community ) , Ann Thomas ( the Community Adviser for the LEA ) and Father Curtis ( the Chairman of the Governors ) . |
| 27 | In these notes I described the aims and origins of the scheme : |
| 28 | But of all I had read so far , nothing troubled me more than two notes I encountered towards the end of the seventh chapter . |
| 29 | When I search a farmland site I always keep careful records , and looking back to my notes I started to search the areas where there had been the greatest concentration of finds . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , I wrote to him in rather a hurry , and did n't take copies of the notes I sent him . |