Example sentences of "[verb] i [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I , I mean I use it as a , that may be the psychology behind it , but I use it as a bad example of , for obvious reasons , and there 's a real bad example , and there may be some politics behind it , there 's What I think is a good example : ‘ Southeast Arts ’ sorry , ‘ Southeast Tourist Board , South of England Board . ’ |
| 2 | I think it 's a very wonderful thing I mean I regard him as a warmonger World War Two by his eighteen month should have been |
| 3 | I do n't know what you 've got planned , there , but a decent boys ' day school is not something to be entered into lightly , it 's a hell of a commitment , I mean I send mine to the local primary and hope for the best … |
| 4 | Whenever I am working with someone I know and trust I ask them for a quick trim . |
| 5 | Erm I do n't know I read it in a book , the paper over there , I 'm sure I did |
| 6 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 7 | ‘ Would you have preferred I leave you to the tender mercies of your American admirer ? ’ |
| 8 | In fact , as things stand I see it as the only course for you to take … |
| 9 | I know I feel it with a belly . |
| 10 | ‘ Forgive me , my dear , ’ he ground out , ignoring the scarlet imprint on the side of his face , ‘ it seems I misread you at every turn — how extraordinary ! |
| 11 | I thought I want it on the C Ds . |
| 12 | No , I think I put it on the er window sill somewhere |
| 13 | L : I think I put it in the wash . |
| 14 | Erm , I think I read it in a magazine somewhere . |
| 15 | Well he said I realise I with a |
| 16 | Well , she knows I put it on the table all at the same time ; if it 's cold , that 's her look out . |